Please add Afrikaans to Duolingo. Is this likely to happen?
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I want x language
We are a world wide community that comes together to learn languages, and support people in learning languages.
This community is not run by Duolingo, and if you have requests for another language/product produced by Duolingo, this is not the place to ask for it. However it is the place to talk about languages - including languages not covered by Duolingo. And this is also a place to critically, on the positive and negative, to have a discussion about Duolingo products. Realizing we are all different and it is good we have different needs and appreciations. Different things are better and worse for different people.
It is also a place to share other language learning resources.
Luis von Ahn, CEO of Duoligo, said in Nov 2022
"Luis von Ahn" wrote:At the moment we aren't adding many new languages, because we are concentrating on improving the languages we do support. One last thing to note is that 50% of our users are learning English, and Spanish and French combined account for another 25%. Most of the languages that people request would account for much less than 1% of our users.
This is currently the latest statement I am aware of by Duolingo on its chances to develop and release another language.
But who knows ? Let's keep hoping.
So - please, use this post to talk about languages you would wish Duolingo had.
And maybe - perhaps go that step further, and share other free resources for learning the target language you would like.
Also, we are a volunteer community who believe in assisting language learning. We are not staffed by people from Duolingo.
Perhaps read some more of the posts in our forums and get to know our community. And perhaps even consider being part of assisting in creating resources and interesting discussions on Afrikaans
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Re: Afrikaans
Interesting resources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans
https://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?p=802
https://www.easyafrikaans.com/
https://ielanguages.com/afrikaans.html
can people recommend others ?
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I recommend to check out this site:
https://lindiebotes.com/afrikaans-resources/
Lindie Botes has collected some resources and as she is a native speaker of Afrikaans she might have some good advice for learners. Especially in her videos.
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Re: Afrikaans
Native | Upper-B2 (BritishCouncil) | L25 (Duo) / A2 (6+y, McGraw-Hill) - Learning (Busuu): (A1 McGraw-Hill) | (interm.)