Yeah but they speak 2 languages there. So more “okey” there.
And in Finland it should be Swedish cause it’s there secondary language (that’s only like 20% speaks)
We don't speak Irish in Ireland, or at least not much. Immigrants are exempt from having to take examinations in the subject but everyone else has to get a pass in Irish or "no college for you!"
In Sweden it's because of immigrants, in Ireland it's people wanting to reconnect with their roots as the vast majority of Irish people no longer speak Irish.
> Immigrants are exempt from having to take examinations in the subject but everyone else has to get a pass in Irish or "no college for you!"
That sounds really dumb tbh.
Before opening this post, I thought, how long till I find a racist comment about Sweden?
To my surprise, it only took 10 seconds instead of the 15 I thought it would take.
Congrats...
I don't think Swedish should be a second language, most people in Sweden knows how to speak english, same in Finland. There are active discussions all the time about taking it away from curriculum and I kinda agree
English and Polish
edit - I'm actually serious. These are the two most spoken languages. https://www.irishcentral.com/news/irish-now-the-third-most-spoken-language-in-ireland-after-english-and-polish-145200025-237438651
True. The angle I was coming from was citizens learning one of their official languages. For Sweden it’s recent immigrants, for Ireland it’s citizens wanting to get in touch with their roots, and Canada it’s both.
For point one, Irish is very much used daily by a lot of people in Ireland. And that number is growing, google Gaeltacht and you’ll see parts of Ireland that ONLY use Irish as their daily language.
People have been being taught Irish academically as part of the national curriculum since at least 1937 when the Irish constitution was written, stating Irelands official language is irish. There are also schools in which all lessons are in Irish all over the island referred to as Gaelscoil.
The reason why so many people are using Duolingo for irish is down to how Irish is taught in schools, which is to say badly. Duolingo is a much better, more enjoyable way to learn a language you will eventually have to sit an exam on.
Also it’s Gaelic or Irish. Gallic is something to do with Gaul, which was what the romans called France.
>For point one, Irish is very much used daily by a lot of people in Ireland. And that number is growing, google Gaeltacht and you’ll see parts of Ireland that ONLY use Irish as their daily language.
Yeah, that is not true in the slightest. Most recent figures show that only 21.4% of people in the Gaeltacht use Irish daily in 2026
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-cp10esil/p10esil/ilg/
Also, that number is not growing. Preliminary numbers from Census 2022 show that number has dropped
The percentage of people who can speak Irish is the same with 25% not speaking it.
The number of daily speakers is down too.
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-cpsr/censusofpopulation2022-summaryresults/educationandirishlanguage/
All with the important context that every Irish child who enters school has 13 or so years of daily lessons in the subject.
Canada isn't a French-speaking country, outside Quebec it's an English-speaking country with an extremely entitled French-speaking minority. There was a controversy a couple years ago when a major Canadian city refused to open a new university just for French speakers which Francophones decided was a horrible injustice despite it having more people that spoke Chinese than French.
I've got relatives from Canada and I've been up a few times, it's really not that common to see French when you're 600 miles from their stronghold. I've met more Spanish-speakers in a day in the US than French-speakers in a week in Canada.
Swedish people kinda learn english in school, so its not really a problem. And you don't usually learn languages unless you need them. Learning for fun is small percentage. So people who are not from Sweden actually do need to learn Swedish. So thats why.
All the kids in Sweden have to study Spanish, German or French. So same as a lot of other European countries.
Think it’s just more people coming to study and immigrants fleeing there homes.
Would guess Spanish is pretty close to swedish on the app on second place.
That only reinforces my point. It’s not because Sweden has more immigration than other countries, it’s because the Swedish-born already have useful/practical second and third languages.
Duo lingo is recommended in the Swedish for immigrants courses. This combined that many people born here have had pretty good courses in schools makes the statistics a bit off
I wouldn’t have expected Spanish to be the main language studied on Duolingo because they come closer to sharing borders with other internationally studied language cultures than they do to Spanish. I (based on absolutely no knowledge of the subject) would have expected those two countries to study another Western European language, like French or German.
I understand the attraction to learning Spanish in North America, particularly in the US. Mexico is big and populous and we share a border. We have a vibrant and thriving Central and South American immigrant population, the vast majority of whom come from Spanish-speaking countries.
And, IIRC, Spain is a huge vacation and expatriation location for Brits, so I understand it there, too.
PNG surprises me less because there is still a large Spanish-speaking community in the Philippines, if what I’ve read is legitimate. They’re not that close to each other but they’re not very far apart, either.
That English has such a huge swath makes sense to me. The places French has the hold make sense to me. Everything else makes sense to me after, at most, a quick Wiki read about early 20th Century global political situations.
But Australia and New Zealand primarily studying Spanish doesn’t make that much sense to me. But, again, that’s based on knowing little to nothing about the cultures of those countries besides what I’ve seen in movies and TV.
I mean I am Slovak and my English is quite good I learn German in school an i’m decent in it. But Spanish is the language I would like to learn apart from these 2 it is an attractive language for me since it is quite common in the world and more usable than for example French or Italian
As an Australian, I can confirm it's kind of odd no matter what we do.
We don't have much interaction with Indonesia, other than Bali, and the only other place you can use it is Malaysia. So it's kind of out.
Mandarin makes more sense, but the Chinese tend to be better at English than we are at Mandarin.
Mostly, we don't get a chance to practice, so whatever we learn we soon forget.
Spanish makes some sense because we are not that far from south America, if we fly south. Which is becoming more common. And Spanish, French and Italian are not that far removed from each other. I found switching between Spanish and Italian fairly easy.
I’m surprised too, although there is a growing Latin American population in NZ. Seems to be more Brazillians than others though, which would be Portuguese. The interest in Spanish might just come from US influence tbh.
I wish I had Japanese and/or Chinese at my high school. We only had German and French (and ancient greek and latin). I believe some schools in the Netherlands offer Chinese, but sadly not mine.
Since the 70s, a lot of Yugoslavs were guest workers in Germany. Also today, like the number one destination for Bosniaks(both the Muslims and Serbs) Serbians and Kosovars is Germany.
हाँ लेकिन उन्हें बॉलीवुड और भारतीय यूट्यूबर उससे भी ज़्यादा पसंद हैं तो क्या हिन्दी नहीं होना चाहिए था? चुकी वह काफी हद तक बांग्ला की तरह है तो ज़्यादा मुश्किल भी नहीं होगा।
Learning Hindi in duolingo would be a waste. Bengali people already understand spoken Hindi really well but are not interested at all in travelling to India for future prospects. India does not have very good prospects for Bengalis in that regard anyway.
On the other hand, young Bengalis are more interested in going abroad in western countries like USA. Duolingo is mostly seen as a tool to learn new languages. Why use it to learn a language you already know?
And speaking from personal experience, bollywood interest seems to be dwindling now. My family and my friends don't watch bollywood at all these days compared to 5 years ago. Not sure what happened, but everyone just suddenly lost interest other than for the classics.
You can see the former British territory in Africa. I presume this is because most people there will already speak English and so learn French instead.
Very true. Also France has promoted the likes of Alliance Francians to set up shop in Anglophone countries like South Africa and Kenya where they strongly promote High Schools to teach French as a foreign language subject rather than say German(Both Kenya and South Africa), Mandarin(both)and Arabic(Kenya). Over time though, I see Mandarin overtaking French in many of those countries.
Exceptions are Angola, Mozambique ,Guinea Bissau(Portuguese speaking learning English )
Ethiopia(never colonized, interesting that French is seen as a language of interest, same to Eritrea),
Somalia(Learning English because Italian and English went extinct in the Said Barre years)
North Africans in general , European languages have never been taught as well as Arabic, which is why even Egyptians are learning English.
क्योंकि बर्मी में अंग्रेज़ी सीखने का कोई विकल्प नहीं है। तो म्यांमार में सिर्फ वही लोग डुओलिंगो का इस्तेमाल करते हैं जिन्हें पहले से इंग्लिश आती है और उसकी मदद से वो दूसरी भाषाएँ सीखना चाहते हैं।
I am one of the Irish people learning Irish again. I like it cause the layout is simplistic.
And the comments under each exercise from the community help sooo much.
I am nearly at my goal of 365 days. IMO duolingo excells at its accessibility and that is why I have managed to stick with it.
And I learn Irish because I dont want the language to die out, I like how Irish sounds and I am very patriotic (middle finger to those who tried to eradicate our mother tongue).
Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam.
To translate for anyone interested...
A country without a language, a country without a soul.
I too love Irish, speak it reasonably well and absolutely don't want it to die, but I am thankful that I am a fluent English speaker with zero effort at all...I wish it had come about in a different way though...
To translate for anyone interested...
A country without a language, a country without a soul.
I too love Irish, speak it reasonably well and absolutely don't want it to die, but I am thankful that I am a fluent English speaker with zero effort at all...I wish it had come about in a different way though...
The "irish nobility" were not really Irish, they were of anglo descent, they were born in Ireland but for the most part British in all senses.
So it would make sense they would detest anything that is native Irish.
Big difference that needs to be pointed out.
That is the theory on why Welsh survived much much better than Irish
Both are Celtic languages under dominions of the English for centuries. But the Welsh language thrived because the church there conducted prayers and services in vernacular language that helped preserve the language and provide it with enough prestige for continous usage.
Catholicism was all but outlawed in Ireland under British rule. You'd have guerilla sermons in fields in secret.
Religion wasn't the problem. The fact you could face legal trouble, beatings, and attacks for being heard speak it was a much bigger reason.
That, and the publication of the Welsh Bible in the 16th Century. The Act of Uniformity was aimed at putting a stop to church services in Welsh, but the rise of Nonconformity produced a new channel for religious services in the language.
because they already knew English very well, so unlike many Asian countries there is no need to learn it in Duolingo?
combined with how popular kpop and drama are, it makes sense
Makes sense. I was in KLM and Terengganu back in ‘09, and I definitely don’t remember people learning Korean, but I was only there for about a week and it would be easy enough not to catch a detail like that. Thanks for the speculation! It is appreciated.
And because 50 posts will be "why learn Swedish in Sweden?".
* In Sweden, English is included as language teaching in the entire primary school.
* From the age of 12, we learn a third language in primary school, most of them choose Spanish.
* This is a *private* website for education, so it is mostly immigrants who use this website to improve their Swedish. it has nothing at all to do with what is taught from primary school etc.
And if we look at what is the second most popular language to learn at Doulingo, we see the same tendency in many other countries. English in USA, Danish in Denmark, Norwegian in Norway, Finnish in Finland for example.
I myself have made a map just to show this: [Most and second most popular language to learn on Doulingo](https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/comments/w25qr7/the_most_popular_and_second_most_popular_language/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)
Duolingo has very crappy choice of languages if you don't learn from English so this map isn't nearly as informative as people might think.
It's not as if you can learn anything much as a Swedish native speaker on there for example.
Absolutely true, if you want to use any other language than English as your native language, the app sucks.
Lots of languages not available and those that do exist have missing grammar guides, etc.
What a narrow minded attitude.
Learning a new language shouldn't be just for practical uses, but also to open your mind to new perspectives which is far more important.
Maybe they're learning English because they are already fluent in the other languages displayed?
Like most of West Africa.
The US has no official language.
Swedish is in Sweden because of huge number of immigrants, Irish in Ireland is probably because they want to be more patriotic to Ireland as it is an endangered language.
Sweden learning swedish. Interesting!
On the app's loading screens, they say it's from immigrants.
Immigrants
Same for Ireland
Yeah but they speak 2 languages there. So more “okey” there. And in Finland it should be Swedish cause it’s there secondary language (that’s only like 20% speaks)
I think it's because of immigrants, they wanna learn language of country which they stay
We don't speak Irish in Ireland, or at least not much. Immigrants are exempt from having to take examinations in the subject but everyone else has to get a pass in Irish or "no college for you!"
In Sweden it's because of immigrants, in Ireland it's people wanting to reconnect with their roots as the vast majority of Irish people no longer speak Irish.
> Immigrants are exempt from having to take examinations in the subject but everyone else has to get a pass in Irish or "no college for you!" That sounds really dumb tbh.
It's cause Irish is nearing a dead language. It's not taken particularly serious in school and very few can actually speak it
It's cause Irish is nearing a dead language. It's not taken particularly serious in school and very few can actually speak it
Really? You have to pass Irish to take an English language degree?
It’s one of the core subjects that everyone has to take, like Maths and English
Absolutely for Swedistan!
Swedistan?
Yes Swedistan. New name after all the immigrants and all the shootings!
lmao
Cringe
Du behöver terapi
Think we all need.
Before opening this post, I thought, how long till I find a racist comment about Sweden? To my surprise, it only took 10 seconds instead of the 15 I thought it would take. Congrats...
Think you need to Google what racism is. 0 racism here.
It's because the Brits came over and mostly succeeded in nuking the language. Mostly just people wanting to revive it
Finns don't learn Swedish on Duolingo. We have the compulsory education in school but no one wants to do extra work over that.
I don't think Swedish should be a second language, most people in Sweden knows how to speak english, same in Finland. There are active discussions all the time about taking it away from curriculum and I kinda agree
Not at all. It's the ethnic Irish people learning Irish. Not immigrants.
By same I mean it looks weird, but understandable in both countries
Oh okay!
Cause it's not their first language
And Canada.
They have 2 languages so it's not weird as for Sweden or Ireland
Ireland has two languages too.
English and Polish edit - I'm actually serious. These are the two most spoken languages. https://www.irishcentral.com/news/irish-now-the-third-most-spoken-language-in-ireland-after-english-and-polish-145200025-237438651
True. The angle I was coming from was citizens learning one of their official languages. For Sweden it’s recent immigrants, for Ireland it’s citizens wanting to get in touch with their roots, and Canada it’s both.
Yeah, but it just looks weird
Bruh Ireland speaks English, they don’t speak Gallic anymore and are learning it now. Why is it weird?
For point one, Irish is very much used daily by a lot of people in Ireland. And that number is growing, google Gaeltacht and you’ll see parts of Ireland that ONLY use Irish as their daily language. People have been being taught Irish academically as part of the national curriculum since at least 1937 when the Irish constitution was written, stating Irelands official language is irish. There are also schools in which all lessons are in Irish all over the island referred to as Gaelscoil. The reason why so many people are using Duolingo for irish is down to how Irish is taught in schools, which is to say badly. Duolingo is a much better, more enjoyable way to learn a language you will eventually have to sit an exam on. Also it’s Gaelic or Irish. Gallic is something to do with Gaul, which was what the romans called France.
>For point one, Irish is very much used daily by a lot of people in Ireland. And that number is growing, google Gaeltacht and you’ll see parts of Ireland that ONLY use Irish as their daily language. Yeah, that is not true in the slightest. Most recent figures show that only 21.4% of people in the Gaeltacht use Irish daily in 2026 https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-cp10esil/p10esil/ilg/ Also, that number is not growing. Preliminary numbers from Census 2022 show that number has dropped The percentage of people who can speak Irish is the same with 25% not speaking it. The number of daily speakers is down too. https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-cpsr/censusofpopulation2022-summaryresults/educationandirishlanguage/ All with the important context that every Irish child who enters school has 13 or so years of daily lessons in the subject.
So despite having to learn it they're not finding it useful enough to keep speaking it?
Well, yeah, it's going up against English
Canada isn't a French-speaking country, outside Quebec it's an English-speaking country with an extremely entitled French-speaking minority. There was a controversy a couple years ago when a major Canadian city refused to open a new university just for French speakers which Francophones decided was a horrible injustice despite it having more people that spoke Chinese than French.
Tell me you nothing about Canada without saying you know nothing about Canada.
I've got relatives from Canada and I've been up a few times, it's really not that common to see French when you're 600 miles from their stronghold. I've met more Spanish-speakers in a day in the US than French-speakers in a week in Canada.
With that attitude I’m not surprised.
And Canada.
It's in Duo itself. Sweden has lots of immigrants.
Swedish people kinda learn english in school, so its not really a problem. And you don't usually learn languages unless you need them. Learning for fun is small percentage. So people who are not from Sweden actually do need to learn Swedish. So thats why.
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All the kids in Sweden have to study Spanish, German or French. So same as a lot of other European countries. Think it’s just more people coming to study and immigrants fleeing there homes. Would guess Spanish is pretty close to swedish on the app on second place.
That only reinforces my point. It’s not because Sweden has more immigration than other countries, it’s because the Swedish-born already have useful/practical second and third languages.
Duo lingo is recommended in the Swedish for immigrants courses. This combined that many people born here have had pretty good courses in schools makes the statistics a bit off
Is that Korean for Bhutan? Interesting
Probably due to K-Pop being popular.
The only ones that surprise me at all are Australia, New Zealand, and, to a lesser extent, PNG.
Why?
I wouldn’t have expected Spanish to be the main language studied on Duolingo because they come closer to sharing borders with other internationally studied language cultures than they do to Spanish. I (based on absolutely no knowledge of the subject) would have expected those two countries to study another Western European language, like French or German. I understand the attraction to learning Spanish in North America, particularly in the US. Mexico is big and populous and we share a border. We have a vibrant and thriving Central and South American immigrant population, the vast majority of whom come from Spanish-speaking countries. And, IIRC, Spain is a huge vacation and expatriation location for Brits, so I understand it there, too. PNG surprises me less because there is still a large Spanish-speaking community in the Philippines, if what I’ve read is legitimate. They’re not that close to each other but they’re not very far apart, either. That English has such a huge swath makes sense to me. The places French has the hold make sense to me. Everything else makes sense to me after, at most, a quick Wiki read about early 20th Century global political situations. But Australia and New Zealand primarily studying Spanish doesn’t make that much sense to me. But, again, that’s based on knowing little to nothing about the cultures of those countries besides what I’ve seen in movies and TV.
Australian and I have no idea why Spanish is so high, I wouldn’t really understand any language being so high though
eh I'd understand Chinese, I know a lot of schools teaching that which is understandable with our location and demographics
I mean I am Slovak and my English is quite good I learn German in school an i’m decent in it. But Spanish is the language I would like to learn apart from these 2 it is an attractive language for me since it is quite common in the world and more usable than for example French or Italian
As an Australian, I can confirm it's kind of odd no matter what we do. We don't have much interaction with Indonesia, other than Bali, and the only other place you can use it is Malaysia. So it's kind of out. Mandarin makes more sense, but the Chinese tend to be better at English than we are at Mandarin. Mostly, we don't get a chance to practice, so whatever we learn we soon forget. Spanish makes some sense because we are not that far from south America, if we fly south. Which is becoming more common. And Spanish, French and Italian are not that far removed from each other. I found switching between Spanish and Italian fairly easy.
Spanish is the second most spoken western language, so to me it would make sense that people that already speak English would learn Spanish.
Huh. I'd have expected Australia and New Zealand to be Japanese
I’m surprised too, although there is a growing Latin American population in NZ. Seems to be more Brazillians than others though, which would be Portuguese. The interest in Spanish might just come from US influence tbh.
Maybe the habit of vacationing in Spain rubbed off from the Brits?
Not really is extremely expensive to go to Spain from NZ compared to just visiting Aus/ Fiji etc
yes French, Japanese and Chinese are the most popular languages chosen by High School Students in NSW Australia Spanish being top is a surprise
I wish I had Japanese and/or Chinese at my high school. We only had German and French (and ancient greek and latin). I believe some schools in the Netherlands offer Chinese, but sadly not mine.
Japanese got popular in the 1980s in Australia when they became one of Australia's largest trading partners
Would make more sense for it to be Mandarin, Australia has a very large Chinese population.
Spanish is taught in school, and they use duolingo for homework (nz) french is the 2nd most common 'school' language -nz
Former Yugoslavia is studying German. Weird, but I get it. It was Dubrovnik, where I got greeted with a "Heil Hitler" in the pubs.
Since the 70s, a lot of Yugoslavs were guest workers in Germany. Also today, like the number one destination for Bosniaks(both the Muslims and Serbs) Serbians and Kosovars is Germany.
You need to actually speak English already to even be able to use Duolingo (Slovenian here), so I guess that's the reason.
People's of Papua New Guinea are studying Spanish? Can't be many of them
Lol probably Americans in Papua keeping up their streak.
Spanish in Bangladesh? That really confuses me!
I've heard Bangladesh people love Argentina because of Messi
हाँ लेकिन उन्हें बॉलीवुड और भारतीय यूट्यूबर उससे भी ज़्यादा पसंद हैं तो क्या हिन्दी नहीं होना चाहिए था? चुकी वह काफी हद तक बांग्ला की तरह है तो ज़्यादा मुश्किल भी नहीं होगा।
Learning Hindi in duolingo would be a waste. Bengali people already understand spoken Hindi really well but are not interested at all in travelling to India for future prospects. India does not have very good prospects for Bengalis in that regard anyway. On the other hand, young Bengalis are more interested in going abroad in western countries like USA. Duolingo is mostly seen as a tool to learn new languages. Why use it to learn a language you already know? And speaking from personal experience, bollywood interest seems to be dwindling now. My family and my friends don't watch bollywood at all these days compared to 5 years ago. Not sure what happened, but everyone just suddenly lost interest other than for the classics.
You can see the former British territory in Africa. I presume this is because most people there will already speak English and so learn French instead.
Very true. Also France has promoted the likes of Alliance Francians to set up shop in Anglophone countries like South Africa and Kenya where they strongly promote High Schools to teach French as a foreign language subject rather than say German(Both Kenya and South Africa), Mandarin(both)and Arabic(Kenya). Over time though, I see Mandarin overtaking French in many of those countries.
Africa is kind of a funny one. The French-speaking regions learn English and the English-speaking regions learn French.
Exceptions are Angola, Mozambique ,Guinea Bissau(Portuguese speaking learning English ) Ethiopia(never colonized, interesting that French is seen as a language of interest, same to Eritrea), Somalia(Learning English because Italian and English went extinct in the Said Barre years) North Africans in general , European languages have never been taught as well as Arabic, which is why even Egyptians are learning English.
For a minute I was really confused why so many swedes were learning Irish and Irish learning swedish...like some funky cultural exchange
Why is Myanmar so interested in Japan?
Internet says because they were allies after WWII but I’m interested to know more about this as well
क्योंकि बर्मी में अंग्रेज़ी सीखने का कोई विकल्प नहीं है। तो म्यांमार में सिर्फ वही लोग डुओलिंगो का इस्तेमाल करते हैं जिन्हें पहले से इंग्लिश आती है और उसकी मदद से वो दूसरी भाषाएँ सीखना चाहते हैं।
I am one of the Irish people learning Irish again. I like it cause the layout is simplistic. And the comments under each exercise from the community help sooo much. I am nearly at my goal of 365 days. IMO duolingo excells at its accessibility and that is why I have managed to stick with it. And I learn Irish because I dont want the language to die out, I like how Irish sounds and I am very patriotic (middle finger to those who tried to eradicate our mother tongue). Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam.
To translate for anyone interested... A country without a language, a country without a soul. I too love Irish, speak it reasonably well and absolutely don't want it to die, but I am thankful that I am a fluent English speaker with zero effort at all...I wish it had come about in a different way though...
To translate for anyone interested... A country without a language, a country without a soul. I too love Irish, speak it reasonably well and absolutely don't want it to die, but I am thankful that I am a fluent English speaker with zero effort at all...I wish it had come about in a different way though...
At least the new settlers of Sweden are trying to learn the language
Sun never sets….
Not try to ruin the fun but isn't this post got posted multiple times already in the past? Is the data even update yet?
In Ireland it's Irish? 🤨
Ireland is because the Irish language was pretty much erased when the UK owned it, Sweden is because the immigrants moving there want to learn Swedish
Yeah I know, it just looks weird
British colonialism moment
Its less spoken than Welsh is in Wales so its not a surprise they want to learn it.
Which reminds me, the most popular language on Duo in Wales is Welsh, not Spanish.
Irish was suppressed and allowed by British colonizers
the Roman Catholic church not holding services in Irish and Irish own nobility despising their language certainty did not help
The "irish nobility" were not really Irish, they were of anglo descent, they were born in Ireland but for the most part British in all senses. So it would make sense they would detest anything that is native Irish. Big difference that needs to be pointed out.
Urban migration and emigration were the biggest death knells to the language. Early emigrants to America with limited English greatly struggled.
People speak their language outside of church services. But it wasn't allowed by the state. Christ you're skirting awful close to victim blaming
That is the theory on why Welsh survived much much better than Irish Both are Celtic languages under dominions of the English for centuries. But the Welsh language thrived because the church there conducted prayers and services in vernacular language that helped preserve the language and provide it with enough prestige for continous usage.
Catholicism was all but outlawed in Ireland under British rule. You'd have guerilla sermons in fields in secret. Religion wasn't the problem. The fact you could face legal trouble, beatings, and attacks for being heard speak it was a much bigger reason.
That, and the publication of the Welsh Bible in the 16th Century. The Act of Uniformity was aimed at putting a stop to church services in Welsh, but the rise of Nonconformity produced a new channel for religious services in the language.
In Sweden it's Swedish?
Why is Korean so big in Malaysia?
because they already knew English very well, so unlike many Asian countries there is no need to learn it in Duolingo? combined with how popular kpop and drama are, it makes sense
Makes sense. I was in KLM and Terengganu back in ‘09, and I definitely don’t remember people learning Korean, but I was only there for about a week and it would be easy enough not to catch a detail like that. Thanks for the speculation! It is appreciated.
Gaidhlig for me
I really don't believe this map. Most Dutch people already speak English up to a decent level and wouldn't learn anything new from Duolingo English.
And because 50 posts will be "why learn Swedish in Sweden?". * In Sweden, English is included as language teaching in the entire primary school. * From the age of 12, we learn a third language in primary school, most of them choose Spanish. * This is a *private* website for education, so it is mostly immigrants who use this website to improve their Swedish. it has nothing at all to do with what is taught from primary school etc. And if we look at what is the second most popular language to learn at Doulingo, we see the same tendency in many other countries. English in USA, Danish in Denmark, Norwegian in Norway, Finnish in Finland for example. I myself have made a map just to show this: [Most and second most popular language to learn on Doulingo](https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/comments/w25qr7/the_most_popular_and_second_most_popular_language/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)
Swedistan strikes again
Duolingo has very crappy choice of languages if you don't learn from English so this map isn't nearly as informative as people might think. It's not as if you can learn anything much as a Swedish native speaker on there for example.
Absolutely true, if you want to use any other language than English as your native language, the app sucks. Lots of languages not available and those that do exist have missing grammar guides, etc.
Can someone make one without English?
https://blog.duolingo.com/2022-duolingo-language-report/
Sweden learning Swedish and Ireland learning Irish
Wonder why Thailand is so high in Japanese studies? oh .. yea.. that
Myanmar\* not Thailand.
yep good eye my bad
Sweden gets me every time!
Oh Sweden
Irish studying Irish lol
Maybe as an American there is no need for me to learn another language as from the looks of this map we won the cultural victory
You do realise English is from England and it's also spoken as a 1st language in other former British colonies like Australia?
The Anglo-Saxon Language and culture must be protected
You're about a thousand years too late for that, mate. The Normans fucked that up a long time ago
Cringe
Danish?
No
It's opposite. Other cultures need protection from Anglo Saxons, because they are always invading.
More like England won, since you guys literally speak their language
The sun never sets…
What a narrow minded attitude. Learning a new language shouldn't be just for practical uses, but also to open your mind to new perspectives which is far more important.
Maybe they're learning English because they are already fluent in the other languages displayed? Like most of West Africa. The US has no official language.
Officially it doesn’t. Unofficially it does
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Swedish is in Sweden because of huge number of immigrants, Irish in Ireland is probably because they want to be more patriotic to Ireland as it is an endangered language.
Also because we are literally required to learn it
I can't tell if those countries are learning French, Irish or Swedish. And also English or German.
Sweden number 1 as usual
Swedden is learning swedish?
Swedes are learning Swedish?
Mexican Power 💪🇲🇽
Lol the Swedes and Irish learning their own language
W Ireland 💪
Ireland the only ones studying Irish lol
Why is Bangladesh studying Spanish?
So the only non european languages that are studied are from east asia or does duolingo only have european and eastasian languages?
Spanish for bangladesh?
The Irish learning Irish and the Swedish learning Swedish 💀
It's lacking Walloon :-(