Winter 2023 Magazine | Page 34

Review : Duolingo by Athena Luo

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Duolingo is one of the most popular languagelearning apps in the world . Duolingo was created by Luis von Ahn in 2012 . He was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University . Duolingo is an app for people to learn a foreign language or practice languages they know . You could download this app or find it online on any device . Duolingo has a free version and a premium version , both work fairly well . learners . Duolingo is having more gay agendas in its lessons . Learners understand that homosexuality is important but this will affect younger learners . An example provided by a learner is “ Grandpa is coming to the barbecue party with his boyfriend .” This was just too much for some learners . Many schools needed to stop their students from using Duolingo because of the inappropriate content for kids .

The main reason why so many people chose to use Duolingo is that you could learn a language from scratch on this app . Duolingo creates individual lessons for learners , it also helps you practice the problems you keep getting wrong . In the lessons , there are listening parts , writing parts , and speaking parts . You could learn a new language from English or your own language .
Duolingo is an amazing app to learn a language from scratch . It provides excellent lesson plans and cute graphic designs . But the gay agendas included in some lessons are quite disturbing to some learners . If the app was made appropriate for all ages then it would be perfect !
Duolingo is totally free , but you could buy the premium version for a better experience . But the good part is that the free and premium versions have the same lesson quality , so both versions could help you learn a language . But people are complaining that Duolingo is getting a little “ inappropriate ”, especially for younger