annelions wrote: .... a mediocre app that doesn't teach nearly as many languages as should/could.
Just out of curiosity, how many languages do you think Duolingo should/could teach?
It currently offers the following for English language speakers:
Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Hindi, Turkish, Dutch, Latin, Swedish, Greek, Irish, Polish, Norwegian Bokmål, Hebrew, Vietnamese, Hawaiian, Danish, Romanian, Indonesian, Welsh, Czech, Scottish Gaelic, Swahili, Ukrainian, Esperanto, Hungarian, Navajo and Finnish.
It is actively developing courses for English language speakers in the following: Yiddish, Haitian Creole and Te reo Māori.
It has or is actively developing a wide range of courses (71) for those whose native language is not English, including for native language speakers of the following:
Arabic: English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish
Bengali: English
Chinese: English, Esperanto, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish
Czech: English
Dutch: English, French, German
French: English, Esperanto, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
German: English, French, Italian, Spanish
Greek: English
Hebrew: English
Hindi: English
Hungarian: English, German
Indonesian: English
Italian: English, French, German, Spanish
Japanese: Chinese, English
Korean: English
Polish: English
Portuguese: English, Esperanto, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Punjabi: English
Romanian: English
Russian: English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish
Spanish: Catalan, English, Esperanto, French, German, Guarani, Italian, K'iche', Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Yucatec
Tagalog: English
Tamil: English
Telugu: English
Thai: English
Turkish: English, French, German, Russian
Ukrainian: English
Vietnamese: English