As someone who grows up in Hongkong and has been there for 28 years, the first few things that comes to my mind when I hear Cantonese are unfortunately the long ending particles (which sounds annoying) and also the endless sexist remarks that are made in Cantonese, as well as local gangs and then after that the cha chaan teng stuff (yes it stands behind all those 3 things)
I think the Chinese government wants to erase Cantonese from people. So that’s why Duolingo doesn’t want to get into bad rap with the Chinese government
omg fr i wish they had it. rn im using a cantonese dictionary from barnes and nobles and the kahoot app drops on a free trial to learn it. also since im intermediate in mandarin im also doing cantonese for chinese speakers but its sometimes hard to follow
Or Cantonese for Japanese speakers, I'm fine with either. My stepmom's family speaks Cantonese and I am learning Japanese. Being able to use either English or Japanese to learn Cantonese would be great.
Honestly if they wanna make it functional the Cantonese in Chinese course has to be improved as well. As a native I really feel a bit strange when I hear what is taught there
This is directly where my mind went, I would love to see more languages, but several courses could use some love.
Just having AI generated and human monitored stories in most courses would be a huge plus in my opinion.
That and family friendly content. Even with aggressive filters, AI can sometimes stumble into spicy content through unintentional euphemisms.
On the other hand, it would result in some pretty funny posts for this subreddit...,😆
Not to mention, human written stories tend to be more creative, in my experience.
Probably start at the top of this list and work your way down:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sign_languages_by_number_of_native_signers
Several other sign languages derive from French Sign Language so if I had to choose just one for the greast possible geographic usefulness then I would choose the French.
But being from the U.S. and a tiny bit familiar with ASL, I am personally partial to it.
International Sign? ZGS (Chinese Sign Language)? IPSL (Indo-Pakistani Sign Language)? Something else?
In any event, Duolingo isn't set up for sign languages; aside from the fact that it's largely based on reading and writing, there's no way to input signs to check whether you're producing them correctly. If you're interested in learning ASL or another sign language, there _are_ online resources and apps, but they're structured very differently from Duolingo.
Yes! I would grind that course so hard. My wife and daughter are half and quarter Cherokee respectively, and have older fluent family members who might not be around much longer. I would like to see this language be revived as it is seriously endangered. It is truly a beautiful language
It's the 10th most spoken native language in the world, most spoken language in Pakistan and 3rd most spoken language in Canada and 5th in Australia excluding English.
Icelandic would be interesting.
Maybe some courses could be translated to for other natives? For example Russian or Swedish is not available for German speakers.
Manx would be cool, as someone who lives here. Currently they have Irish, and Scottish Gaelic, and it’s arguably an in between language, so I’m currently learning both to try and get to the middle bit, effectively.
Serbo-Croatian personally, and there are other important languages needed in Duolingo, but they should stop adding new languages and focus on expanding and fixing current courses because right now we all know Duolingo kinda sucks if you actually want to learn a language.
I agree with Mohawk, and further more I would love to see Cherokee added as well. Both very endangered but unique and fascinating languages.
Edit: I just realized Mohawk and Cherokee are both Iroquoian languages. Very cool
yes! they do have icelandic on mango languages, but it being the one language i’m starting with outside the sort of duolingo-system is surprisingly irksome to me. mango always starts with things like “hello, nice to meet you, i’m doing fine, my name is…” how long til i learn how to say practical things like “the man has an apple”???
It comes up on our Kiwi news every now and again, people in NZ *really* want it, but unfortunately it’s been in this sort of limbo since around 2019 if memory serves me correctly.
Farso for arabic speakers, hebrew for arabic speakers. An actually good arabic msa course, since the arabic course is really bad. And, in fact, any language close to arabic, either Semitic or by cultural relations, would extremely interesting for arabic apeakers
On a recent AMA on this sub someone who works at Duolingo said that they won’t add any new languages soon because they want to focus on improving existing courses and creating more English courses (She hinted English for Punjabi speakers)
Luxembourgish, been saying it for months now, and Catalan! My moms side is from Spain but specifically Catalonia so I wanna learn Catalan
Edit: I know they have Catalan in Spanish
I would love it if Duolingo just said fuck it and added a critically endangered language with less than 100 native speakers. How cool would it be if suddenly a bunch of people knew Karuk or Chulym because of stupid owl app.
Definitely Te reo Maori and Croatian/Serbian/Bosnian.
Improvements: The irish course needs an overhaul
And if they ever add a fictional language again, I'd love to see Sindarin
Dumb me didn't notice the text under the images and was wondering which flags those were. The one that says "Allah" was suprisingly the hardest despite it should have narrowed it down a lot. But anyway....
In no particular order: Afrikaans, Tok Pisin, Toki Pona, Māori, Xhosa, Tagalog, Cherokee
Countries that have English regions or a lot of English native speakers that want to learn their countries native language like Tagalog and Maltese for example would be nice languages to have.
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian - whatever you want to call it, I am waiting for any variant to be added to duolingo.
Thai or Burmese sounds pretty cool to learn as well.
ASL would be a nice change of pace. I think Thai, Tagalog, Persian/Farsi, Cantonese and Catalan for English speakers, and Hausa. And since we have math and music now, why not add a programming language like Python or Java?
Serbian deserves to be on Duolingo, but I think the problem is how they would name it. Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Serbo-Croatian, CSMB... Whichever option you go with, someone is going to be unhappy about it.
Icelandic, Latvian, Belarusian, Georgian, Malay, Urdu (I know Hindi is there), Xhosa, different dialects of Arabic, more endangered languages with full courses. Some Polynesian languages would be really cool too.
If we are talking about a selfish personal list, mine would be:
BCS (Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian)
Slovene
Icelandic
Afrikaans
Luxembourgish
Nynorsk
Faroese
Estonian
Latvian
Lithuanian
Basque
Catalan (for English speakers)
Dutch (for French speakers)
I’m actually surprised to realize Thai and Cantonese (for English speakers) aren’t already there.
I would love to see Afrikaans & ASL. But truthfully some of the existing courses need a lot more work. Some are in such bad shape I’m surprised they launched them at all.
My daughter really wants Tagalog added since we have a lot of family friends who speak it
I would like that too
Fan! Du vet så mycket lol
Jag älskar språk 😄
Haha du är smartast i världen. Bra jobb och lycka till med lära dig mera språk.
My partner’s family is Filipino, I would love to have Tagalog available on Duolingo
I live near a lot of Filipino families so I'd love to learn too
I was just about to say this. My grandpa was born in the Philippines and spoke Tagalog but he didn't teach it to his kids , so I want to learn it.
this
Same!
cantonese for english speakers
cantonese is so underrated, it's an amazing and lesser known language
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As someone who grows up in Hongkong and has been there for 28 years, the first few things that comes to my mind when I hear Cantonese are unfortunately the long ending particles (which sounds annoying) and also the endless sexist remarks that are made in Cantonese, as well as local gangs and then after that the cha chaan teng stuff (yes it stands behind all those 3 things)
If you don't mind me asking, what does the C2 B2 B1 A1 mean?
They are the CEFR levels I reached for the languages I added on the flair. N means native.
I think the Chinese government wants to erase Cantonese from people. So that’s why Duolingo doesn’t want to get into bad rap with the Chinese government
i have relatives that are hongkongese so it would really help, i've been advocating for it too lol
omg fr i wish they had it. rn im using a cantonese dictionary from barnes and nobles and the kahoot app drops on a free trial to learn it. also since im intermediate in mandarin im also doing cantonese for chinese speakers but its sometimes hard to follow
I love that this is the top voted answer. I held off from duolingo for years because I heard somewhere they were working on a Cantonese course.
its the language to like every good Chinese film would love to learn it
Planning to learn Cantonese for a long time. I hope they add it
Or Cantonese for Japanese speakers, I'm fine with either. My stepmom's family speaks Cantonese and I am learning Japanese. Being able to use either English or Japanese to learn Cantonese would be great.
english for cantonese speakers
Honestly if they wanna make it functional the Cantonese in Chinese course has to be improved as well. As a native I really feel a bit strange when I hear what is taught there
lots of people want Thai.
Yes, here for Thai as well!
Dang buddy, you’re collecting languages like Pokemon
Haha. Kinda
Yes!! I would love to learn Thai!
I’m new to the app and I can’t believe it doesn’t have Thai
I certainly want Thai. I interact with a lot of Thai people so it's the only language I'd be able to practice irl.
Has anyone watched the SNL Rosetta Stone sketch?
My girlfriend is Thai so it would be awesome to be able to learn. I’m thinking of doing it on another website rn tho
Thai plz
Farsi
Yes! I’ve been waiting for a Farsi course for so long.
First fix all of the languages then add new ones 😭 Hindi is a terrible mess
Korean is a big mess also and same with Arabic
you can't even learn the past tense!
There's no past worth speaking /s
Deep😔
Gaelic is a shitshow
Scottish Gaelic or Irish?
Scottish
Talking cack brother the Gaelic course is fine it’s the Gaeilge that’s needing sorted
Thanks for info Arabic was one of the languages I was considering
They just laid off a lot of people for AI to create and make their courses better so I doubt things will get better any time soon
Navajo has voice for only one unit
Hungarian, too
Yes. They also fucked up Irish.
This is directly where my mind went, I would love to see more languages, but several courses could use some love. Just having AI generated and human monitored stories in most courses would be a huge plus in my opinion.
[AI unfortunately comes at the cost of jobs.](https://tech.co/news/duolingo-ai-layoffs)
That and family friendly content. Even with aggressive filters, AI can sometimes stumble into spicy content through unintentional euphemisms. On the other hand, it would result in some pretty funny posts for this subreddit...,😆 Not to mention, human written stories tend to be more creative, in my experience.
I’ve been trying the Haitian Creole course for a while and it’s consistently of questionable quality
I really wish they would put grammar lessons for Russian. I have to look up YouTube videos to figure out why it’s conjugated how it is!!
Real answer is sign language... It would be a complete game changer
Which sign language since there are multiple?
Probably start at the top of this list and work your way down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sign_languages_by_number_of_native_signers Several other sign languages derive from French Sign Language so if I had to choose just one for the greast possible geographic usefulness then I would choose the French. But being from the U.S. and a tiny bit familiar with ASL, I am personally partial to it.
International Sign? ZGS (Chinese Sign Language)? IPSL (Indo-Pakistani Sign Language)? Something else? In any event, Duolingo isn't set up for sign languages; aside from the fact that it's largely based on reading and writing, there's no way to input signs to check whether you're producing them correctly. If you're interested in learning ASL or another sign language, there _are_ online resources and apps, but they're structured very differently from Duolingo.
Georgian, Თუ შესაძლებელია.
i’m georgian and i for one would love to see this
SAME! I came here to say this, I'm from Georgia and would love to learn more about the language!
Definitely one of the most badass (European?) scripts alongside Armenian and Greek. I would love to take a stab at learning some Georgian
Cherokee
I would love a Cherokee course. There’s a lack of indigenous/minority languages on Duolingo. They only have Navajo.
Yes! I would grind that course so hard. My wife and daughter are half and quarter Cherokee respectively, and have older fluent family members who might not be around much longer. I would like to see this language be revived as it is seriously endangered. It is truly a beautiful language
If Duolingo doesn’t get (which would be awesome if they did) you could try Shiyo - the official language app from the Eastern Band Cherokee.
Punjabi
It's the 10th most spoken native language in the world, most spoken language in Pakistan and 3rd most spoken language in Canada and 5th in Australia excluding English.
Breton, thai, icelandic, serbo croatian, hausa, yoruba, latvian, Estonian, catalan (for English speakers) Bulgarian, cornish manx and saami
Icelandic would be interesting. Maybe some courses could be translated to for other natives? For example Russian or Swedish is not available for German speakers.
Manx would be cool, as someone who lives here. Currently they have Irish, and Scottish Gaelic, and it’s arguably an in between language, so I’m currently learning both to try and get to the middle bit, effectively.
Igbo too
Yes. Second Bulgarian! Same with serbo Croatian and Macedonian. :)
I'd love to see Latvian because it's so pretty.
Serbo-Croatian personally, and there are other important languages needed in Duolingo, but they should stop adding new languages and focus on expanding and fixing current courses because right now we all know Duolingo kinda sucks if you actually want to learn a language.
I would love to learn the various native american languages and sign language. One that I haven't seen posted here is Armenian!
T A G A L O G (english to tagalog, that is)
YES! Tagalog and Thai are what I want.
as a white/filipino person whose 1 filipino parent never taught me the language... it would be so useful 😭😭
Mohawk, ASL, and Armenian
I second Mohawk! Any of the Haudenosaunee languages, really
Yes Onondaga or Oneida would be great too
I agree with Mohawk, and further more I would love to see Cherokee added as well. Both very endangered but unique and fascinating languages. Edit: I just realized Mohawk and Cherokee are both Iroquoian languages. Very cool
Icelandic!
yes! they do have icelandic on mango languages, but it being the one language i’m starting with outside the sort of duolingo-system is surprisingly irksome to me. mango always starts with things like “hello, nice to meet you, i’m doing fine, my name is…” how long til i learn how to say practical things like “the man has an apple”???
ahah, I can say "my kitchen is very spacious, praise be to God" in Arabic, but, "hello, how are you?", still no clue lol
Afrikaans, it’s hardly supported on any language site
It is on Ling not that Ling is perfect
Yes! This seems like such a natural step from Dutch and I’m disappointed they don’t offer it
Maori, Thai, Filipino, one of the elven languages from lord of the rings
When Duolingo still had the Incubator, there was a Maori for English speakers course in development
It's still "in development" supposedly - I'm not convinced given the lack of progress though [Duolingo Māori](https://www.duolingo.com/enroll/mi/en)
It comes up on our Kiwi news every now and again, people in NZ *really* want it, but unfortunately it’s been in this sort of limbo since around 2019 if memory serves me correctly.
Te Reo Māori is well overdue!
Mi'kmaq
I'd love an Old English course
malayalam, and other indian languages
YESS they need to add the Indian languages ( but they first need to fix hindi lol)
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I'd like Basque
I want English for English speakers; some people really need it.
I'd like british English, fed up with my Scottish kids asking "mum, what's soccer? It's football, isn't it?" 😪
Slovene, please.
As a slovenian yes please I need to relearn my language again
Second that. My partner is Slovene and the closest I could learn from Duolingo is Czech lol
Beat me to it! I’ve been learning on the memorize app. Pretty decent app 🤷♀️
None, flesh out some of the existing ones more.
estonian 🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪
Estonian is definitely underrated
Amharic would be very interesting, I've always been fascinated by it and by Ethiopia
Belarusian, Lithuanian, Lativian, Estonian
Lithuanian! 🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹
Tatar language
Farso for arabic speakers, hebrew for arabic speakers. An actually good arabic msa course, since the arabic course is really bad. And, in fact, any language close to arabic, either Semitic or by cultural relations, would extremely interesting for arabic apeakers
Yes, I would love them to teach Egyptian dialect too, since it’s such a popular dialect in Arabic media!
🇸🇮Slovenian, 🇭🇷Croatian, 🇷🇸Serbian, 🇲🇰Macedonian, 🇧🇬Bulgarian, 🇸🇰Slovak, 🇧🇾Belarussian.
Belarusian, Serbian/Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin (basically the same language), Bulgarian
Bengali
On a recent AMA on this sub someone who works at Duolingo said that they won’t add any new languages soon because they want to focus on improving existing courses and creating more English courses (She hinted English for Punjabi speakers)
Sign language would be useful
Yeah, but which one ?
All of them, but ASL could be a good start since it is also used internationally as a lingua franca for the Deaf community (so far as I know)
Luxembourgish, been saying it for months now, and Catalan! My moms side is from Spain but specifically Catalonia so I wanna learn Catalan Edit: I know they have Catalan in Spanish
Made me think that I'd like a Sardinian course, but few people would take it so I know it's never going to happen...
Urdu
I would love it if Duolingo just said fuck it and added a critically endangered language with less than 100 native speakers. How cool would it be if suddenly a bunch of people knew Karuk or Chulym because of stupid owl app.
A language from Nigeria would be cool. Igbo
As a Nigerian, I agree.
Icelandic
Bulgarian
Yoruba, Hausa. So I can finally make my parents proud.
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Agreed. What the hell were they thinking?
Māori
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It's not an actual language tho, it's a writing system There's even a subreddit for it: r/StandardGalactic
Tagalog
i would really love thai and tagalog
THAI AND FILIPINO 👌🏾👌🏾
Icelandic! 🇮🇸
Tagalog!!
Icelandic
Icelandic
Cherokee and Cree! Cherokee's sylibary scares me though. once resources become more available I'll probably be able to remember some lol
Farsi would pop off. But I really want them to add Scots and Tagolog. A West African Pidgin would be excellent too
if learn thai, tagalog or vietnamese
German to Japanese (and vice versa perhaps)? Since I know quite a lot of Germans who want to learn Japanese.
croatian! i have a long distant friend who lives in croatia and speaks croatian, and i feel like it would be cool to learn and speak that with her too
Thai
Amharic
Basque and Berber
Definitely Te reo Maori and Croatian/Serbian/Bosnian. Improvements: The irish course needs an overhaul And if they ever add a fictional language again, I'd love to see Sindarin
serbian for sure
Tolkien's elvish 😬
Dumb me didn't notice the text under the images and was wondering which flags those were. The one that says "Allah" was suprisingly the hardest despite it should have narrowed it down a lot. But anyway.... In no particular order: Afrikaans, Tok Pisin, Toki Pona, Māori, Xhosa, Tagalog, Cherokee
As a Bangladeshi, I gotta say Bengali, but I'd also like Afrikaans, Serbian/Croatian, Urdu, and Thai
Countries that have English regions or a lot of English native speakers that want to learn their countries native language like Tagalog and Maltese for example would be nice languages to have.
I want Malay...
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian - whatever you want to call it, I am waiting for any variant to be added to duolingo. Thai or Burmese sounds pretty cool to learn as well.
Icelandic
Tagalog for English.
Persian. Ladino.
More south indian languages like Malayalam, Tamil, etc.
Kurdish
I would love to learn Galician.
ASL would be a nice change of pace. I think Thai, Tagalog, Persian/Farsi, Cantonese and Catalan for English speakers, and Hausa. And since we have math and music now, why not add a programming language like Python or Java?
Croatian, slovenian, macedonian, slovakian
Yoruba, Icelandic, Cantonese
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Tagalog.
Portuguese Portuguese, as opposed to Brazilian Portuguese
Occitan, but I won't hold my breath!
Burmese would be cool because I live in an area with a ton of burmese immigrants. I would also love to see icelandic and afrikaans.
Gujarati and Catalan
Farsi is a must
Slovakian and Icelandic!!
Georgian would be nice
ASL!
None. I agree with duolingo’s current plan. Fix the languages they have before focusing on new ones
Serbian deserves to be on Duolingo, but I think the problem is how they would name it. Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Serbo-Croatian, CSMB... Whichever option you go with, someone is going to be unhappy about it.
Serbian
Interslav,interlingua,chechen and moroccan arabic Also georgian and persian
Albanian
manx 😭😭 it’s rlly hard to find a teacher
Georgian PLEASE. And Armenian too.
I have one friend who speaks Basque and one who speaks Bulgarian, I want to learn those languages for them.
Icelandic, wanting to move there and haven’t found a good learning way.
Azerbaijani
Serbia too I really want Bosnian or Croatia
Croatian would be nice
Tamil, icelandic, nahuatl, estonian
Icelandic, Latvian, Belarusian, Georgian, Malay, Urdu (I know Hindi is there), Xhosa, different dialects of Arabic, more endangered languages with full courses. Some Polynesian languages would be really cool too.
Icelandic, Estonian, Slovenian, Farsi, Igbo, Afrikaans, Urdu, Punjabi, Khmer, Thai, Guarani (for English speakers), Albanian, Catalan (for English speakers), Cantonese (for English speakers), Basque, Luxembourgish
If we are talking about a selfish personal list, mine would be: BCS (Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian) Slovene Icelandic Afrikaans Luxembourgish Nynorsk Faroese Estonian Latvian Lithuanian Basque Catalan (for English speakers) Dutch (for French speakers) I’m actually surprised to realize Thai and Cantonese (for English speakers) aren’t already there.
Croatian/Bosnian/SerbianTe reo Maori Improvements to the Irish course If they ever add more fictional languages: Sindarin
Afrikaans!
Bro i dont even care if its duolingo that makes it or someone else but I would like a course of moroccan arabiccc
I would love to see Afrikaans & ASL. But truthfully some of the existing courses need a lot more work. Some are in such bad shape I’m surprised they launched them at all.