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liamrobinosgame
United States of America

Urdu Language

Post by liamrobinosgame »

Add a Urdu language please.

sohaxrza
United States of America

New language request: Urdu

Post by sohaxrza »

Hello. I was thinking you could add Urdu as a new language. I think it’s a good language to learn, and I think it’ll be fun to learn a different culture.

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Dana_Dany Danuta
Poland

Re: New language request

Post by Dana_Dany Danuta »

Hello, @sohaxrza! This is the duome forum, not DL.
With a request to add a new language you have to turn to Duolingo, which decides everything and does not really count with our requests - but you can always try. 🙂

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Thomas.Heiss
Germany

Re: New language request

Post by Thomas.Heiss »

Do you mean a separate sub forum on Duome for resource discussions?

DL staff has deleted all language request / up voting threads and the big summary list when they decided to shut down the Duolingo discussion forum.

They don't want to hear all the whining...
And honestly, there wasn't that much action when all those lists and threads existed.
They hardly had responded in those up-vote target language threads.

Now the company even needs to pay contractors or make room for internal linguistic staff (overhead of coordination, rollout out new path versions,..) when adding a new language.

Somewhere they said that they will just focus on the existing languages, to bring up the content to a higher CEFR level and to make further optimizations
(they're constantly adding new challenges, new features for French and Spanish and their English courses).

As the volunteer contributor program has ended a while ago I doubt that you will see short introduction courses from paid staff.
They'll probably first have to check the general demand and interest of the current user base.
For example how likely is it that people enroll into Super or Max if they support that language.

It's more likely that they'll add new English courses for more source/base languages worldwide.

They say that they're having some existing language framework, to bring content up to the B2 level.
To let AI generate all the sentences for content which is already there in other ultra-long CEFR courses.

That many synonyms and alternative sentence translations are missing (even not required personal pronouns) after new sentences get added - after a quick verification by paid linguistic experts - to a course in an already established language like (Brazilian) Portuguese... they don't mention that necessarily.

Often takes a while that the users report those sentences and I'm not that sure if someone really takes a look at the ever growing backlog report queue (for maintenance).

Duolingo Inc. can't really win with ultra-short, buggy or abandoned courses.

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RhettPeregrino
Australia

Re: Urdu Language

Post by RhettPeregrino »

I doubt Duolingo will ever add Urdu at this point. There's just not the demand for it and they already have the Hindi course.

That annoyed me because I've been so keen to learn for a long time.

So, I worked with some native Urdu speakers to put together a resource to help beginners learn the Urdu alphabet, like the first few lessons of the Duolingo Hindi course.

If people like it, maybe we can have a Duolingo-like Urdu course outside of Duolingo but still accessible to learners like us.

Check it out if you're interested and let me know what you think!
https://alpha-urdu.com/

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IceVajal
Germany

Re: Urdu Language

Post by IceVajal »

Did you check out this one?

https://www.loecsen.com/en/learn-urdu

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antonmo
Iran

Re: Urdu Language

Post by antonmo »

very welcome effort, thank you 🙏 🙏
Mango app also has Urdu.

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Phyxius333
United States of America

Urdu

Post by Phyxius333 »

Urdu is in the top 10 Languages in the world and I’m wondering what reasoning, if any, the company has offered for excluding it?

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PtolemysXX
Uganda

Re: Urdu

Post by PtolemysXX »

Urdu is a beautiful language. I had a chance to learn it a bit years ago (and then forgot completely :( ).
But think about it: Duolingo's share price was $150 half a year ago, it is $300 now. Without the Urdu course. The CFO will ask: how much will it cost to develop the course and how much will it raise the share price?
It is as simple as that.

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Basler Biker
Switzerland

Re: Urdu

Post by Basler Biker »

Like PtolemysXX said, indeed.

I can imagine a lot of people in India learn English or German or French to come working in Europe (many are detached by their Indian employer), but the way around I have no idea: how many people need to learn URDU for going to work there? I think, going there, you speak English in the office (depending on what type of job you have, and what level of contact needs to be with locals speaking URDU.

What other local people, also, not being immigrants, need to lean URDU.
And for those I imagine India has the appropriate local schools. Not sure if they would be looking for apps like DL.

Maybe you can and want, @Phyxius333 , expand a bit on your view?

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Thomas.Heiss
Germany

Re: Urdu Language

Post by Thomas.Heiss »

https://www.101languages.net/urdu/

It particularly lists www.50languages.com

The phrasebook course has 100 chapters with free MP3 audio files (for download).
They also have mobile apps.

More can be found in the "Vocabulary" section where words (nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs) can be learned with pictures.

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