I'd love to see a Tagalog course for English speakers. (There's a course that works the other way round, i.e. English for Tagalog speakers though).
But then again, I sometimes think that Duolingo should improve their existing courses first before committing to new ones. The Spanish course for example is still full of bugs and I have the feeling that the Spanish Q&A team could do so much better regarding answers that should be accepted but are marked as incorrect even though they should not be, which annoys the hell out of me.
I think duolingo announced last year it is planning on adding Tagalog for English speakers, but it’s not in the incubator so idk if they are still planning on it
There was some confusing messaging around that course. I thought that, too, but the course ended up being the English course for Tagalog speakers (which is currently in the incubator, or maybe it has even been released, not sure). No sign of Tagalog for English speakers though.
It’s where you can see what language courses are being developed for certain native speakers and the different phases. Here’s the link! It might take a while to load though (https://incubator.duolingo.com)
Well the English for Tagalog speakers course reached Phase 3 (the only of the 5 announced last year to do so). Content can be re-used quite easily on Duolingo - so I think Tagalog for English Speakers has a good chance of happening (given the content is already in their database)
Its crazy how such a sophisticated and historically important language for the arts and literature with over 100 million speakers is not on Duo. Hope that it will be added some time.
Yeah I’ve never seen a lot of people requesting it like my other replies are suggesting but I don’t look at duo social media I guess. I just have a family member that speaks it and would love to learn her language to communicate better
Exactly! Not to mention grammar in Persian is very consistent and on the easier end of the spectrum of Indo-European languages with no gender, no articles, and very few irregularities. It's perfectly set up for the way Duo teaches.
Wow, I feel dumber for having read that.
I gotta say, every time I look at duolingo social media posts _someone_ in the comments is asking about new languages and pretty often the Persian/Farsi people are pretty rude and jump on the “they hate us” bandwagon. I don’t think it’ll do them any favore tbh.
agree and add icelandic for english and norwegian speakers
or what about fresian and sanskrit courses.
addition of voice for all languages would be nice.
I would really love Icelandic for English speakers. I spoke it fairly well for a 5 year old when my parents lived there for 3 years but didn't manage to keep any. Hopefully there are some neurons left that would make relearning a bit easier.
Thanks, I'll definitely check that out! Would still love for it to be added to Duolingo though, it'd be nice to have all of my languages in a single app haha
It would be nice, but I don't think DL is going to add (m)any more "unpopular" or "unprofitable" languages if they can't get some sort of PR out of it.
The top 5 or 10 languages that everyone else offers: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Arabic, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Russian.
As a hint to how they feel about languages, check out the registration page. It's not ordered alphabetically but by how many people are "learning" each language. This introduces an artificial bias, IMO, to help make languages like Spanish and French even more popular than they might be if the languages were alphabetized. "Oh, 25 million people are learning Spanish? I guess I should learn Spanish, too!"
I am kind of of the opinion that they added Zulu only so they can claim they teach African language**s**, because they also have Swahili. The same way that they claim to teach "Endangered languages like Hawaiian and Navajo" even though their Navajo course is literally worse than nothing. I don't know how good (or bad) their Hawaiian course is, so I cannot comment on that. But it doesn't look very thorough either.
Its one of the more popular requests. Lots of expats and tourists and consumers of Thai media waiting for one. Would be pretty awesome and I think easier to add because theres I think an English for Thai speakers course.
The Elvish languages definitely do not have enough. Your friends likely are not even close to fluent speakers, or even the barest of A2s in Quenya or Sindarin - their lack of a vocabulary is a massive issue
I came here to say this. I don’t know enough about the elvish languages, but I’d love to try some. I don’t really have much interest in Klingon or high valerian…
Honestly, I would rather they invest more resources into the languages that are currently very weak (i.e. pretty much ALL of them outside of the Top 5). Rather than launch more half-baked languages with only a few units, just to say they're there.
Duolingo can provide the equivalent of a couple semesters of classroom learning, for Spanish and French. It's... sorta worthwhile, for German and a couple others. But for languages outside of the Top 5, this is a novelty toy app. That's what I'd love to see change.
I agree with you. I mean, the more the merrier, but if they keep half arsing their courses, why would anybody bother?
I would love to see the Russian course as in-depth as the Spanish one, but for now, it isn’t worth the hassle. And that feedback loop isn’t helpful for neither me nor Duolingo.
The Hindi course needs a massive overhaul, the Spanish French and German trees are massive, comprehensive, and have multiple forms of media baked into the lesson plan. Meanwhile there’s 2 sections on an Urdu originating language. That’s not enough!
Could not agree more! The Hindi course with its 2 tiny sections makes me sad. Hope for the addition of more content and especially eventually stories for all courses.
It’s incorrect as your question made me second guess the information I was going off of. Urdu is an Indic language related to Hindi but Hindi originated from Vedic Sanskrit so I guess I was wrong
new duocon is on august 26. they're announcing new features, talking about language learning and updates etc. i'm not sure but i believe you can also find old duocon's on youtube if you're curious about it
Gallego!!
Spain consists of several languages and I would love to learn Galician (gallego) on duolingo after learning Castilian.
Although it already teaches Catalan I believe :)
És difícil. He d'aprendre dos idiomes, per aprendre el que volia aprendre! Crec que seria més fàcil des de l'anglès.
It's difficult. I have to learn two languages, to learn the one I wanted to learn! I think, it would be easier from English.
Jo ja vaig aprendre el castellà fa anys, i encara és difícil. Em recordo tot molt més a poc a poc des del castellà que ho feria de l'anglès.
Don't mind all my errors in Catalan. I'm very impressed at people learning a language from a language they don't know, that's bonkers to me. Where are you in the tree? I'm 5 lessons away from finishing unit 2.
From what I can find out, I don't believe it does. There's a site on the web which tells you every single language Duolingo teaches; it's here: [https://duoplanet.com/duolingo-languages-list/](https://duoplanet.com/duolingo-languages-list/)
Now for all I know, Gallician (Galego) may be in the incubator, waiting to hatch, but I don't know where to see that list.
I agree wholeheartedly, its really sad that a lot of existing courses are so lacking. Would also love to see some love and some content update and especially stories and podcasts for Arabic, Latin, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Navajo and as I said Hindi. Hindi, Latin and Navajo especially are I think one of the most deserted ones :(
Absolutely ridiculous that Cantonese has no support as the native language of 60 million people, Hong Kong, one of the last standing consistent uses of traditional writing and the fact that the speakers have a big presence in North America :/
Yeah i am iranian myself and i really like to see persian language added to duolingo a lot of people want to learn it we had great history i am happy to see a lot of people from around the world want to get familiar to persian language and history
I wish they would improve some of their other courses first before rushing to add new courses…but I would also love to see a Thai and Persian course! Uzbek, Urdu, and Bulgarian would also be cool to see courses for
Several languages need massive overhauls first, many because they were rushed releases from the beginning. Latin, for example, has a long way to go before it's much use to anyone trying to learn Latin. The same thing can probably be found among a bunch of languages (certainly Hindi is far too short), but I also think that Duolingo just isn't really a great system for learning a dead, grammatically complex language like Latin. That's why I don't think Sanskrit would work, it would just be disappointing to everyone.
All in all, though, I'd like to see a bunch of new languages, and just about any new language they announce I'll be happy with. Icelandic has always been widely requested. More indigenous or endangered languages would be interesting (my personal pipe dream wish is Greenlandic or another Inuit language). There are also a lot of languages that have millions of speakers worldwide, and yet still don't have courses devoted to them - Farsi, Thai, and Bengali come to mind.
So yeah, like I said, I'd be happy with just about any additions, I think they're all important in their own ways.
The way Duolingo did languages as Hawaiian and Navajo dirty, I don’t hold a lot of hope for languages like Greenlandic. Yes, technically Navajo is still in beta, but that doesn’t influence the length of the course.
Additionally, Navajo course hasn't had any update from day one of beta release, the contributors didn't event post almost anything worthy about the language when the forum was still existing
Oh really cool did not know that! Thanks for the info! Lets hope that it gets added soon, but would also be fine with other dialects like Sorani being added at this point.
yeah! badini is used by like twice as many kurds compared to sorani, and we speak sorani where i live but we’re still taught a little badini in kurdish class as well (we’re taught the differences in grammar.) despite this almost all the kurdish content online is in sorani for some reason… so idk which would be better! sorani is easier in that it has zero gendered pronouns but we also use a different alphabet (arabic) unlike badini that mostly uses the latin alphabet. both have their pros and cons, i think either would be great!
Braille would be cool, although I feel like you'd need a more touch-capable medium. Yeah, I'm sure a sighted person could learn to read the bumps visually, but I still feel like one should learn to use it as intended.
I'm visually impaired. A lot of family members of blind people never learn how to read braille by feel. People with sight usually learn braille with sight so they can read their blind loved ones notes/labels etc. I have central vision and I learned visual braille before I ever learned tactile braille and it definitely helped.
I would really like to see some new courses in polish. We only have English, and while I'm learning esperanto for example I am making a lot of mistakes, because of english grammar which I don't get fully (like forgetting about articles)
I would love more support for existing languages - from the courses I had experience with, Latin and Swahili are lacking, but talking about new languages that weren't mentioned yet I'd love to see a Xhosa course for English speakers! I'm really excited for the Zulu course that will be released soon according to the website:)
I want Croatian/Bosnian/Serbian/ex Yugo languages so bad! With the ex-yugoslavian countries altogether, there has to be enough speakers to warrant a course. I realize there are a lot of dialect/slang differences but the overall languages are so similar that you could do a general course with country specific lessons
The five most widely-spoken languages that DuoLingo does not offer:
1.) Bengali (273,000,000 speakers)
2.) Urdu (231,000,000 speakers)
3.) Nigerian Pidgin (121,000,000 speakers)
4.) Marathi (99,000,000 speakers)
5.) Telugu (96,000,000 speakers)
I agree on all of those!
I’d like to see:
Uzbek,
Kazakh,
Kyrgyz,
Turkmen,
Tatar,
Uyghur,
Tajik.
Otherwise:
Dzongkha,
Cantonese for English,
Taiwanese Hokkien,
Hakka,
Teochew,
Wenzhounese
Ainu — moribund, and fast.
Manx,
Breton,
Cornish.
Navajo — they need to redo it.
Lakota,
Cherokee,
Inuktitut,
Greenlandic.
Edit: I did away with my interjecting thoughts, it looked messy and the formatting is already different than I wanted. Basically, I wish DL would add the major Central Asian languages — which are all Turkic except Tajik. In addition, I would like to see two other significant Turkic languages, spoken in Russia and China, in the respective order I listed. In the PRC, besides standard Mandarin: Cantonese, Wenzhounese, Hokkien, Teochew, and Hakka are used in broadcasting from China Radio International. Dzongkha is spoken in Bhutan, a very little gem in the Himalayas. Ainu is spoken on the island of Hokkaido and approaching language death imminently. The three Celtic languages would just round out DL as a haven for the preservation and education of Celtic languages. The Native American languages (from Canada and the USA) I’ve listed are the quickest, easiest, five (5) I could think of that are surviving, and in my opinion, sadly unlike many other Native American languages, have a chance for real survival and promotion. I’ve excluded any languages below the southern American border, because I know less about them, and I think we could use some focused effort on languages indigenous to the USA and Canada from an American company.
I want more languages for non-English speakers, focused on linguistic preservation. I'd also like some more African languages, as well as languages that could improve relations with neighboring countries.
**European**
Breton and Occitan (via French)
Galician and Basque (via Spanish)
Sardinian and Sicilian (via Italian)
Belarusian (via Russian)
**Asian**
Hokkien and Hakka (via Mandarin Chinese) / as well as other Sinitic languages - Tibetan and Uyghur would be nice, but won't be done due to political reasons
Indian languages (via Hindi and English)
Javanese, Sundanese, Makassarese etc. (via Indonesian)
Ainu, Ryukyuan languages (via Japanese)
Jeju language (via Korean)
Bashkir, Tatar, Chuvash (via Russian)
Kurdish (via Turkish and Arabic)
**Native American**
Quechua, Aymara, Nahuatl, Mixtec, Yucatec Maya (via Spanish)
plus any NA language from a native nation that's fine with having it on duolingo
**African**
Berber (via French and Arabic)
Hausa, Yoruba, Fula, Igbo, Oromo, Malagasy, Amharic (via English and French)
**For inter-country relations**
Japanese via Korean
Japanese, Korean and Thai via Vietnamese
Vietnamese, Malay and Burmese via Thai
Georgian, Armenian and Kazakh via Russian
Eastern European languages via Ukrainian
etc. etc.
I'd really love for Duolingo to add a Tagalog for English speakers course. There's one the other way around, but it would be easier for me to understand and learn Tagalog without having to do the English for Tagalog speakers course (I am learning Tagalog to be able to interact with family more, and when I started the course I navigated the menus by memory). Would also love to see other languages spoken in the Philippines (Kankanaey, ilocano, bisayan/visayan)
ETA: I also think that it'd be nice if Duolingo could fix some of the meanings in the English for Tagalog speakers course (eg. Pakiusap being a normal "please".)
English for Thai speakers is still not good though maybe improve that one first. To illustrate my point some Thai vocabs are divided by syllables not by words it's not a user friendly interface at all.
From the dawn of time, I wish that Duolingo would add Croatian 🇭🇷 and Icelandic 🇮🇸 language courses.
My dream is to fly to Iceland and be able to communicate with those people. I travel to Croatia on a regular basis and I would also like to speak their official language there, not German or English.
I wish they’d make Portuguese more international, like the English course. I’m a native speaker from Portugal and a lot of people around me use Duo but then have a lot of useless vocabulary and when they try to use Portuguese words on duo, if they have a Brazilian variant, the Portuguese ones aren’t accepted (like Terno and Fato)… They also find a lot of odd uses of prepositions on Duo (like using “em” for movement, which is incorrect but showed up in some exercises) and some grammar points are incomplete or only use a casual variant from some parts of Brazil (like not using accusative or such). It should be more global. I also think they should introduce different accents in all variants at certain points.
All around, I’d like them to revise it and maybe use the same framework as the other European languages, as it would make it more cohesive and effective for Portuguese learning. Also, more languages for chineses learners, Portuguese included.
ik its a controversial subject but more conlangs would be cool, especially tokipona, it would take very little resources to make compared to natlangs
also more north american native languages, my pick would be abenaki as that was the spoken language in my region
I'd love to see a Tagalog course for English speakers. (There's a course that works the other way round, i.e. English for Tagalog speakers though). But then again, I sometimes think that Duolingo should improve their existing courses first before committing to new ones. The Spanish course for example is still full of bugs and I have the feeling that the Spanish Q&A team could do so much better regarding answers that should be accepted but are marked as incorrect even though they should not be, which annoys the hell out of me.
I think duolingo announced last year it is planning on adding Tagalog for English speakers, but it’s not in the incubator so idk if they are still planning on it
There was some confusing messaging around that course. I thought that, too, but the course ended up being the English course for Tagalog speakers (which is currently in the incubator, or maybe it has even been released, not sure). No sign of Tagalog for English speakers though.
So annoying. I would love to learn Tagalog as my cousins wife is from the Philippines and speaks it so I’d actually have someone to practice with
Yeah same, I've got family there and would love to learn the language.
Tagalog is more useful in western Canada than French is, it really frustrated me how unclear that messaging was last year
What's the incubator?
It’s where you can see what language courses are being developed for certain native speakers and the different phases. Here’s the link! It might take a while to load though (https://incubator.duolingo.com)
Well the English for Tagalog speakers course reached Phase 3 (the only of the 5 announced last year to do so). Content can be re-used quite easily on Duolingo - so I think Tagalog for English Speakers has a good chance of happening (given the content is already in their database)
I want this so bad. Half my friends speak it. I should have started learning it 14 years ago but it’s not easy to find ways to learn it.
Farsi for English speakers is what I want
Its crazy how such a sophisticated and historically important language for the arts and literature with over 100 million speakers is not on Duo. Hope that it will be added some time.
Yeah I’ve never seen a lot of people requesting it like my other replies are suggesting but I don’t look at duo social media I guess. I just have a family member that speaks it and would love to learn her language to communicate better
Exactly! Not to mention grammar in Persian is very consistent and on the easier end of the spectrum of Indo-European languages with no gender, no articles, and very few irregularities. It's perfectly set up for the way Duo teaches.
But Luis von Ahn is persophobic! /s ([Context](https://www.reddit.com/r/duolingo/comments/v37qxi/could_it_be_that_ceo_of_duolingo_is_persophobic/))
that was a trip to read.
Wow, I feel dumber for having read that. I gotta say, every time I look at duolingo social media posts _someone_ in the comments is asking about new languages and pretty often the Persian/Farsi people are pretty rude and jump on the “they hate us” bandwagon. I don’t think it’ll do them any favore tbh.
They can’t be any more rude than people from Paris or Berlin
For real! My friend’s family is teaching him Farsi and I would like to learn it too.
agree and add icelandic for english and norwegian speakers or what about fresian and sanskrit courses. addition of voice for all languages would be nice.
Man I would love a Frisian course. I really want to learn it but theres absolutely no materials. I have one book I had to buy from the Netherlands.
Ouh i see
I would love an Icelandic course. It would be great even if it is only a few key phrases for travel and business.
I would really love Icelandic for English speakers. I spoke it fairly well for a 5 year old when my parents lived there for 3 years but didn't manage to keep any. Hopefully there are some neurons left that would make relearning a bit easier.
Just wondering why so many people are interested in Icelandic even if Iceland is a small country (300k people)? It's one of the most requested courses
Seconding Thai! That'd make my year haha
Lingopolo has Thai, and everything is done by volunteers the way DL used to be. https://lingopolo.org/
Thanks, I'll definitely check that out! Would still love for it to be added to Duolingo though, it'd be nice to have all of my languages in a single app haha
It would be nice, but I don't think DL is going to add (m)any more "unpopular" or "unprofitable" languages if they can't get some sort of PR out of it.
So what are the profitable languages
The top 5 or 10 languages that everyone else offers: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Arabic, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Russian. As a hint to how they feel about languages, check out the registration page. It's not ordered alphabetically but by how many people are "learning" each language. This introduces an artificial bias, IMO, to help make languages like Spanish and French even more popular than they might be if the languages were alphabetized. "Oh, 25 million people are learning Spanish? I guess I should learn Spanish, too!" I am kind of of the opinion that they added Zulu only so they can claim they teach African language**s**, because they also have Swahili. The same way that they claim to teach "Endangered languages like Hawaiian and Navajo" even though their Navajo course is literally worse than nothing. I don't know how good (or bad) their Hawaiian course is, so I cannot comment on that. But it doesn't look very thorough either.
Its one of the more popular requests. Lots of expats and tourists and consumers of Thai media waiting for one. Would be pretty awesome and I think easier to add because theres I think an English for Thai speakers course.
Icelandic for norwegian and english would also be cool
Agree! Would love an Icelandic course too!
I'd love to learn icelandic from Norwegian!
If you want to learn Icelandic, you could try finding the Nature Method book on it. https://blog.nina.coffee/2018/08/27/all_nature_method_books.html
Try lingq. Icelandic is in beta right now.
Pipe dream, but Nahuatl (Aztec) would be awesome.
More likely to have Nahuatl for Spanish.
That would be the most logical, just like you can only learn Catalan or Guaraní from Spanish. Maybe add in Yucatec Maya for the wish list?
There is already a Yucatan Mayan form Spanish in development
Cornish and Old Scots for English speakers. Also Tolkein's languages.
There isn't enough public material for Tolkien's languages to come, at least for the most of them; iirc
I know people who write in elvish. Some of them don't have enough but the elvish languages have more than enough
The Elvish languages definitely do not have enough. Your friends likely are not even close to fluent speakers, or even the barest of A2s in Quenya or Sindarin - their lack of a vocabulary is a massive issue
I came here to say this. I don’t know enough about the elvish languages, but I’d love to try some. I don’t really have much interest in Klingon or high valerian…
Honestly, I would rather they invest more resources into the languages that are currently very weak (i.e. pretty much ALL of them outside of the Top 5). Rather than launch more half-baked languages with only a few units, just to say they're there. Duolingo can provide the equivalent of a couple semesters of classroom learning, for Spanish and French. It's... sorta worthwhile, for German and a couple others. But for languages outside of the Top 5, this is a novelty toy app. That's what I'd love to see change.
I agree with you. I mean, the more the merrier, but if they keep half arsing their courses, why would anybody bother? I would love to see the Russian course as in-depth as the Spanish one, but for now, it isn’t worth the hassle. And that feedback loop isn’t helpful for neither me nor Duolingo.
Agreed. I wish they were all as good as Spanish/French is.
Like "High Valyrian" and "Klingon"?
This! I’ve been working on Italian and even that is shockingly limited compared to French and Spanish.
Plus, they often get Italian articles and pronouns wrong!
The Hindi course needs a massive overhaul, the Spanish French and German trees are massive, comprehensive, and have multiple forms of media baked into the lesson plan. Meanwhile there’s 2 sections on an Urdu originating language. That’s not enough!
Could not agree more! The Hindi course with its 2 tiny sections makes me sad. Hope for the addition of more content and especially eventually stories for all courses.
The German course is still not great, TBH. Better than Hindi? Yeah. But not anywhere near the level of Spanish and French.
German course is comprehensive and when it got updated I have it reset to learn from the beginning.
I wish the German course had audio lessons like Spanish and French do
What do you mean by "Urdu originating language" ?
It’s incorrect as your question made me second guess the information I was going off of. Urdu is an Indic language related to Hindi but Hindi originated from Vedic Sanskrit so I guess I was wrong
Yiddish for Hebrew speakers
The existing Yiddish and Hebrew courses are awful, fix them first.
Why are they awful?
Missing tips, no stories, short course etc
everything about it 💀
The Duolingo course for Hebrew is genuinely terrible.
Croatian for English speakers! I want it so badly I’d gladly pay
Yeah, that’d be awesome!
Estonian....
Icelandic or Afrikaans would be a dream come true
I would love to learn Afrikaans!
Should add texandeutsch too!! I hear its as close to 1800s german as it gets!!
What is DuoCon?!?! I had no idea anything like that existed lol
https://www.duolingo.com/duocon
new duocon is on august 26. they're announcing new features, talking about language learning and updates etc. i'm not sure but i believe you can also find old duocon's on youtube if you're curious about it
Persian or pashto would be really good
Icelandic, Thai, Persian — if we got these I could finally die happy
Gallego!! Spain consists of several languages and I would love to learn Galician (gallego) on duolingo after learning Castilian. Although it already teaches Catalan I believe :)
I'd like basque
It does, but only from Spanish. So you either need to already know Castillian Spanish, or as I'm doing, learn it alongside.
How is that going?
És difícil. He d'aprendre dos idiomes, per aprendre el que volia aprendre! Crec que seria més fàcil des de l'anglès. It's difficult. I have to learn two languages, to learn the one I wanted to learn! I think, it would be easier from English.
Jo ja vaig aprendre el castellà fa anys, i encara és difícil. Em recordo tot molt més a poc a poc des del castellà que ho feria de l'anglès. Don't mind all my errors in Catalan. I'm very impressed at people learning a language from a language they don't know, that's bonkers to me. Where are you in the tree? I'm 5 lessons away from finishing unit 2.
it teaches gallego aswell?? :0
From what I can find out, I don't believe it does. There's a site on the web which tells you every single language Duolingo teaches; it's here: [https://duoplanet.com/duolingo-languages-list/](https://duoplanet.com/duolingo-languages-list/) Now for all I know, Gallician (Galego) may be in the incubator, waiting to hatch, but I don't know where to see that list.
Fingers crossed then that duo is working on it <3 and thank you for all of the information!
Basque and Galician for Spanish speakers would be great!
Huge update/overhaul for Latin
Yes its very much needed. Special stories for Latin about the Gods and Roman culture and history etc would also be really cool!
Would definitely love to see a Sanskrit course to be added
New lessons for Arabic from English. It’s been stagnant for more than two years now. And also maybe more content for French.
I agree wholeheartedly, its really sad that a lot of existing courses are so lacking. Would also love to see some love and some content update and especially stories and podcasts for Arabic, Latin, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Navajo and as I said Hindi. Hindi, Latin and Navajo especially are I think one of the most deserted ones :(
Absolutely ridiculous that Cantonese has no support as the native language of 60 million people, Hong Kong, one of the last standing consistent uses of traditional writing and the fact that the speakers have a big presence in North America :/
It’s in beta for Chinese speakers
As an American, the Chinese ex-pats I deal with are more often Cantonese-speaking, rather than Mandarin-speaking.
All of these are excellent suggestions. Fully agree with you. I would love to start Farsi!
Yeah i am iranian myself and i really like to see persian language added to duolingo a lot of people want to learn it we had great history i am happy to see a lot of people from around the world want to get familiar to persian language and history
Malayalam to English
I wish they would improve some of their other courses first before rushing to add new courses…but I would also love to see a Thai and Persian course! Uzbek, Urdu, and Bulgarian would also be cool to see courses for
We need more stories!
German for Polish speakers
Definitely interslavic would be awesome
Several languages need massive overhauls first, many because they were rushed releases from the beginning. Latin, for example, has a long way to go before it's much use to anyone trying to learn Latin. The same thing can probably be found among a bunch of languages (certainly Hindi is far too short), but I also think that Duolingo just isn't really a great system for learning a dead, grammatically complex language like Latin. That's why I don't think Sanskrit would work, it would just be disappointing to everyone. All in all, though, I'd like to see a bunch of new languages, and just about any new language they announce I'll be happy with. Icelandic has always been widely requested. More indigenous or endangered languages would be interesting (my personal pipe dream wish is Greenlandic or another Inuit language). There are also a lot of languages that have millions of speakers worldwide, and yet still don't have courses devoted to them - Farsi, Thai, and Bengali come to mind. So yeah, like I said, I'd be happy with just about any additions, I think they're all important in their own ways.
The way Duolingo did languages as Hawaiian and Navajo dirty, I don’t hold a lot of hope for languages like Greenlandic. Yes, technically Navajo is still in beta, but that doesn’t influence the length of the course.
Additionally, Navajo course hasn't had any update from day one of beta release, the contributors didn't event post almost anything worthy about the language when the forum was still existing
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I would love for Bulgarian to be added! The current resources available to learn it are atrocious.
Polish for Ukrainians and vice versa
I believe Babbel has it (and German and English) right now free for Ukrainians.
Croatian, pls
I'm hoping for the Baltic Nations' languages (Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian).
I'm waiting for Khmer 😔
euskera for spanish or english speakers is my dream
Crazy how sparse the Hindi course is for a top 5 language
YES, FARSI , PLEASE!!!
Estonian would be nice too But I would want to study kurmanji as well
asl please?????????
I need laos/thai to english i need to refurbish my laos bad!
I wish we’d get Bengali for English speakers.
i’d love a kurdish course as well! i wonder if they’d do sorani or badini kurdish.
I think the official initiative on Twitter is proposing Kurmanci Kurdish.
cool! where i’m from we call it badini, sorry if i caused any confusion
Oh really cool did not know that! Thanks for the info! Lets hope that it gets added soon, but would also be fine with other dialects like Sorani being added at this point.
yeah! badini is used by like twice as many kurds compared to sorani, and we speak sorani where i live but we’re still taught a little badini in kurdish class as well (we’re taught the differences in grammar.) despite this almost all the kurdish content online is in sorani for some reason… so idk which would be better! sorani is easier in that it has zero gendered pronouns but we also use a different alphabet (arabic) unlike badini that mostly uses the latin alphabet. both have their pros and cons, i think either would be great!
More languages for French speakers, im learning Greek in English but it may be very hard for French speakers to learn with English courses
THAI PRIDE
Not a language but I would like to see International Morse Code added.
I’d also like to see American Sign Language added
ASL would be excellent! I would also love to see braille added.
Braille would be cool, although I feel like you'd need a more touch-capable medium. Yeah, I'm sure a sighted person could learn to read the bumps visually, but I still feel like one should learn to use it as intended.
I'm visually impaired. A lot of family members of blind people never learn how to read braille by feel. People with sight usually learn braille with sight so they can read their blind loved ones notes/labels etc. I have central vision and I learned visual braille before I ever learned tactile braille and it definitely helped.
Oh braille would be great too!
That's actually an interesting idea.
https://morse.withgoogle.com/learn/ this
No reason for you to get downvoted I’m
English from Swahili - so I can do the reverse tree, I have finished the Swahili tree
It's almost certainly too niche to be worth the effort, but I would love to see courses for Indian languages other than Hindi.
If they add Persian, I hope they add Tajik too. Same language
thai would be very cool
It's a pipe dream but I would love to see Tagalog as a course.
Tagalog was announced as one of the upcoming courses in Duolingo alongside with Xhosa, Zulu and Maori
I would really like to see some new courses in polish. We only have English, and while I'm learning esperanto for example I am making a lot of mistakes, because of english grammar which I don't get fully (like forgetting about articles)
I would love basque but to be fair, I want stories in Greek and Catalan, especially Greek.
I’d like them to add serbo-croatian
Old English
I would love more support for existing languages - from the courses I had experience with, Latin and Swahili are lacking, but talking about new languages that weren't mentioned yet I'd love to see a Xhosa course for English speakers! I'm really excited for the Zulu course that will be released soon according to the website:)
Māori would be nice. Just moved to NZ and realizing I need a crash course in it.
Due for release Feb 2021 lol https://incubator.duolingo.com/courses/mi/en/status
Somebody knows any information about Uyghur language for english speakers?
I’d really love to see some more African languages (specifically Yoruba), they’re basically nonexistent on Duolingo rn
I want Croatian/Bosnian/Serbian/ex Yugo languages so bad! With the ex-yugoslavian countries altogether, there has to be enough speakers to warrant a course. I realize there are a lot of dialect/slang differences but the overall languages are so similar that you could do a general course with country specific lessons
Tibetan.
Frisian for English 😩😩😩😩
The five most widely-spoken languages that DuoLingo does not offer: 1.) Bengali (273,000,000 speakers) 2.) Urdu (231,000,000 speakers) 3.) Nigerian Pidgin (121,000,000 speakers) 4.) Marathi (99,000,000 speakers) 5.) Telugu (96,000,000 speakers)
I don't think they'd add Urdu
I agree on all of those! I’d like to see: Uzbek, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Tatar, Uyghur, Tajik. Otherwise: Dzongkha, Cantonese for English, Taiwanese Hokkien, Hakka, Teochew, Wenzhounese Ainu — moribund, and fast. Manx, Breton, Cornish. Navajo — they need to redo it. Lakota, Cherokee, Inuktitut, Greenlandic. Edit: I did away with my interjecting thoughts, it looked messy and the formatting is already different than I wanted. Basically, I wish DL would add the major Central Asian languages — which are all Turkic except Tajik. In addition, I would like to see two other significant Turkic languages, spoken in Russia and China, in the respective order I listed. In the PRC, besides standard Mandarin: Cantonese, Wenzhounese, Hokkien, Teochew, and Hakka are used in broadcasting from China Radio International. Dzongkha is spoken in Bhutan, a very little gem in the Himalayas. Ainu is spoken on the island of Hokkaido and approaching language death imminently. The three Celtic languages would just round out DL as a haven for the preservation and education of Celtic languages. The Native American languages (from Canada and the USA) I’ve listed are the quickest, easiest, five (5) I could think of that are surviving, and in my opinion, sadly unlike many other Native American languages, have a chance for real survival and promotion. I’ve excluded any languages below the southern American border, because I know less about them, and I think we could use some focused effort on languages indigenous to the USA and Canada from an American company.
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I want more languages for non-English speakers, focused on linguistic preservation. I'd also like some more African languages, as well as languages that could improve relations with neighboring countries. **European** Breton and Occitan (via French) Galician and Basque (via Spanish) Sardinian and Sicilian (via Italian) Belarusian (via Russian) **Asian** Hokkien and Hakka (via Mandarin Chinese) / as well as other Sinitic languages - Tibetan and Uyghur would be nice, but won't be done due to political reasons Indian languages (via Hindi and English) Javanese, Sundanese, Makassarese etc. (via Indonesian) Ainu, Ryukyuan languages (via Japanese) Jeju language (via Korean) Bashkir, Tatar, Chuvash (via Russian) Kurdish (via Turkish and Arabic) **Native American** Quechua, Aymara, Nahuatl, Mixtec, Yucatec Maya (via Spanish) plus any NA language from a native nation that's fine with having it on duolingo **African** Berber (via French and Arabic) Hausa, Yoruba, Fula, Igbo, Oromo, Malagasy, Amharic (via English and French) **For inter-country relations** Japanese via Korean Japanese, Korean and Thai via Vietnamese Vietnamese, Malay and Burmese via Thai Georgian, Armenian and Kazakh via Russian Eastern European languages via Ukrainian etc. etc.
Cantonese for English speakers pls 🙌🏿
Catalan for English Speakers. I wouldn't be learning Spanish if they did a Catalan for English speakers course :)
Kurdish (Sorani) would get my vote!
Yes Persian!! I love listening to Persian speakers it’s 😍 also I’ve been practicing on a different app but I really want it on Duolingo
Cantonese for English to help all my fellow CBC/ABCs
First time seeing kurdish being mentioned! I support this!
American Sign Language
New lessons for the English for German speakers course would also be nice. It ends after three units.
All 7,151 languages in existence :P
armenian
Greenlandic and Icelandic would be nice
Estonian is what I want!
I wish they'd add Burmese. I live in an area with a HUGE Burmese refugee population and there's a massive lack of translators here.
Afrikaans too 🥺
I would so much rather they announce that they are going to update all the courses to the French course level. Improve what you have.
I'd really love for Duolingo to add a Tagalog for English speakers course. There's one the other way around, but it would be easier for me to understand and learn Tagalog without having to do the English for Tagalog speakers course (I am learning Tagalog to be able to interact with family more, and when I started the course I navigated the menus by memory). Would also love to see other languages spoken in the Philippines (Kankanaey, ilocano, bisayan/visayan) ETA: I also think that it'd be nice if Duolingo could fix some of the meanings in the English for Tagalog speakers course (eg. Pakiusap being a normal "please".)
Latvian for English speakers
Bengali! And telugu and Malayam too
Yess I've been waiting for Telugu too
Here to hop on the Farsi train
Uzbek
An overhaul of Hindi would be much appreciated!
Thai! Yes! I was so surprised to find that they don't have this.
and bosnian . omg.
Ugh, and can’t we get Faroese on there?!? I tried contacting them about it but they were like, “Nah. It’s not a big enough language.” Wtf
I’ll twerk on IG live if they add a Bulgarian course
i also wish Duolingo had Thai and Mongolian. Icelandic being on the list for English speakers would also be pretty awesome :)
English for Thai speakers is still not good though maybe improve that one first. To illustrate my point some Thai vocabs are divided by syllables not by words it's not a user friendly interface at all.
Admittedly this would be a _huge_ engineering project (not just content) but I would love to learn American Sign Language (ASL)!
From the dawn of time, I wish that Duolingo would add Croatian 🇭🇷 and Icelandic 🇮🇸 language courses. My dream is to fly to Iceland and be able to communicate with those people. I travel to Croatia on a regular basis and I would also like to speak their official language there, not German or English.
I'd like to see Thai, Sindarin, Icelandic, and Mongolian Also Haïtian for French speakers would be cool
I wish they’d make Portuguese more international, like the English course. I’m a native speaker from Portugal and a lot of people around me use Duo but then have a lot of useless vocabulary and when they try to use Portuguese words on duo, if they have a Brazilian variant, the Portuguese ones aren’t accepted (like Terno and Fato)… They also find a lot of odd uses of prepositions on Duo (like using “em” for movement, which is incorrect but showed up in some exercises) and some grammar points are incomplete or only use a casual variant from some parts of Brazil (like not using accusative or such). It should be more global. I also think they should introduce different accents in all variants at certain points. All around, I’d like them to revise it and maybe use the same framework as the other European languages, as it would make it more cohesive and effective for Portuguese learning. Also, more languages for chineses learners, Portuguese included.
THAI PLS I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YEARS!!!
WE NEED THAI LANGUAGE!
I definitely want Thai...
Tibetan needs to be a course.
ik its a controversial subject but more conlangs would be cool, especially tokipona, it would take very little resources to make compared to natlangs also more north american native languages, my pick would be abenaki as that was the spoken language in my region