Mantilla’s family is from South America, so she was raised speaking Spanish, and along with a yearlong stay in Switzerland at the age of five, picked up French. We actually had some family friends come over and they all speak in Portuguese, and I was able to understand a lot more of what they were saying and I think it’s because of what Duolingo taught me.” “With Duolingo, at least with Portuguese, I’ve gotten far enough for it to teach me a lot of new words that you would use day to day. “When you’re learning a new language, one of the best things you can learn are conversational words and saying how are you and stuff like that,” Camila Mantilla (11) said. The solid and predictable format that Duolingo brings is useful for those who are interested in languages that are not offered at Central. “On Duolingo, you kind of just knock out the lesson and move on, and so I like the versatility and difference that school brings, but it’s definitely easier to forget.” “Duolingo definitely drills it in your head so you memorize it, whereas at school you use it on a wider variety, so we use certain vocabulary less frequently, and it’s not as intense,” Hester said. “It’s not something I’ve just done just to supplement my Spanish, but just because I genuinely do enjoy language learning.”Ĭurrently enrolled in Spanish Three, Hester has picked up learning Spanish on Duolingo to have a different learning experience, and partake in friendly family competition with her dad who majored in Japanese in college. “I just find it really fascinating to learn and understand the nuances of other languages,” Tivana Hester (11) said. People go to it for various reasons: to supplement a class, to relearn a forgotten language, to fulfill a New Year’s Resolution, or any number of other reasons. Three to five lessons in each level, six levels in each topic, and various topics in each unit make up Duolingo’s curriculum, not including stories and alphabet supplements for languages with a different alphabet. The mostly free language learning app encourages learners to practice every day, recording a streak if someone completes one lesson a day. It’s Duo, the Duolingo Owl.ĭuo has been terrorizing unfaithful learners since 2011 with emails and notifications when learners do not partake in their daily lesson. It’s green, memeable, and has a hilarious TikTok account.
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