Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote
Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote
TikTok U.S. users have been learning Chinese on Duolingo in increasing numbers amid their adoption of a Chinese social app called RedNote ahead of the
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/52721306
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A 216% increase sounds impressive, but probably isn't because the starting number is very small.
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Except Duolingo regularly releases these numbers. In July 2024 it was reported to be slightly above 9m monthly chinese learners..
So quite significant rise.
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9m monthly Chinese learners in the USA? That's pretty crazy.
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No that's global.
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That makes more sense. I'd be interested to know the absolute increase in the number of learners in the USA but I guess the point remains that the ban caused some kind of uptick. As someone who's been learning Mandarin off and on for many years I can only say good luck to them.
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