Can i find out how many people are studying a particular language

[John Little]

As the thread says, is there away to find out how many people are studying each language?

[Corinnebelle]

[mention]John Little[/mention] Do mean on Duolingo? If you go to add new course you can see how many people are studying a language.

[Explorer]

Do you mean on the forum? If so, I'm afraid there is no way to know exactly how many people are studying a particular language. Some users indicate in their signatures the languages they know or study, but it's not possible to know much more than that.

If you mean on Duolingo you can check this link: www.duolingo.com/courses

[John Little]

Actually I found this link:

https://jakubmarian.com/duolingo-number ... tatistics/

[John Little]

Do you mean on the forum? If so, I'm afraid there is no way to know exactly how many people are studying a particular language. Some users indicate in their signatures the languages they know or study, but it's not possible to know much more than that.

If you mean on Duolingo you can check this link: www.duolingo.com/courses

Your link lists them in popularity order. Portugues (my course) is relatively and surprisingly low at just over 2 million.

But I have noticed in the league profiles that a large Proprotion of learners are Brasilian

[John Little]

I don't know how this wound up in "troubleshooting" I just hit "new topic"

[Explorer]

I don't know how this wound up in "troubleshooting" I just hit "new topic"

I moved it from the Portuguese forum because it's a general question about Duolingo. Here more people can see the thread and you have a better chance that someone will answer with the information you are looking for.

Your link lists them in popularity order. Portugues (my course) is relatively and surprisingly low at just over 2 million.

I bet Portuguese will be gaining popularity in the coming years. It has over 250 million speakers and it's already the most spoken language in the Southern Hemisphere.

[SweNedGuy]

Duolingo gives you the number of people who started a course and at least did one lesson. (A course may disappear from your profile after being idle for some weeks.) Doing the placement test keeps you safe as well.

DuoMe lists the learners who attained at least level 2 for any given course they learn. Again, making a successful placement test provides 100XP, hence you get level 2. However DuoMe only retains learners who attained at least once a 100 days streak. Inactive learners and repetitive streak breakers never get listed on DuoMe. Hence the number of active learners is much smaller.

I made a detailed posting on this some time ago. How popular are Duolingo courses really?

[Corinnebelle]

I think [mention]MatOzone[/mention] has a link to all the courses Duolingo offers from all the languages, not just from English. That is even more interesting than the Duolingo courses from English.

Those numbers on Duolingo just indicate whoever did a lesson in a language in a month. Doesn't matter how casual!

[SweNedGuy]

It is interesting to check the distribution of learners among the courses from different languages.

For example among all the courses learning German, the course from English has a 61% share. The course from Chinese had only some Beta testing going on, prior to official release.

Data on 9-Jul-2022
German
from total order Pct
English 10,200,000 1 61%
Spanish 1,500,000 2 9%
Russian 1,290,000 3 8%
Turkish 828,000 4 5%
Arab 818,000 5 5%
French 750,000 6 4%
Portuguese 602,000 7 3.6%
Italian 297,000 8 1.8%
Dutch 264,000 9 1.6%
Hungarian 180,000 10 1.1%
Chinese 4,000 11 0.0%
Total 16,733,000

The courses learning English from different languages were distributed as following:
English
from total order Pct
Spanish 34,900,000 1 28%
Portuguese 12,300,000 2 10%
Hindi 13,400,000 3 11%
Arab 9,680,000 4 8%
Vietnamese 9,820,000 5 8%
Russian 7,920,000 6 6%
French 6,250,000 7 5%
Chinese 4,520,000 8 4%
Turkish 4,550,000 9 3.7%
German 3,140,000 10 2.6%
Indonesian 2,920,000 11 2.4%
Japanese 2,580,000 12 2.1%
Polish 2,100,000 13 1.7%
Italian 1,880,000 14 1.5%
Dutch 1,110,000 15 0.9%
Thai 1,030,000 16 0.8%
Czech 956,000 17 0.8%
Romanian 841,000 18 0.7%
Korean 738,000 19 0.6%
Ukranian 943,000 21 0.8%
Hungarian 718,000 20 0.6%
Greek 227,000 22 0.2%
Tagalog 112,000 23 0.1%
4 more in incubator
Total 122,635,000

All data were retrieved from Duolingo in July 2022.