![]() ![]() 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. The three Celtic languages would just round out DL as a haven for the preservation and education of Celtic languages. Ainu is spoken on the island of Hokkaido and approaching language death imminently. Dzongkha is spoken in Bhutan, a very little gem in the Himalayas. In the PRC, besides standard Mandarin: Cantonese, Wenzhounese, Hokkien, Teochew, and Hakka are used in broadcasting from China Radio International. In addition, I would like to see two other significant Turkic languages, spoken in Russia and China, in the respective order I listed. Basically, I wish DL would add the major Central Asian languages - which are all Turkic except Tajik. So yeah, like I said, I'd be happy with just about any additions, I think they're all important in their own ways.Įdit: I did away with my interjecting thoughts, it looked messy and the formatting is already different than I wanted. 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. More indigenous or endangered languages would be interesting (my personal pipe dream wish is Greenlandic or another Inuit language). Icelandic has always been widely requested. That's why I don't think Sanskrit would work, it would just be disappointing to everyone.Īll 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. 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. Latin, for example, has a long way to go before it's much use to anyone trying to learn Latin. Several languages need massive overhauls first, many because they were rushed releases from the beginning. But it doesn't look very thorough either. I don't know how good (or bad) their Hawaiian course is, so I cannot comment on that. 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 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. "Oh, 25 million people are learning Spanish? I guess I should learn Spanish, too!" 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. It's not ordered alphabetically but by how many people are "learning" each language. The top 5 or 10 languages that everyone else offers: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Arabic, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Russian.Īs a hint to how they feel about languages, check out the registration page.
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