![]() I’ve been obsessively checking their incubator page to see when they’re going to release Chinese (Mandarin) and Japanese, which are my favorite languages. So, as you can see, I love Duolingo, and am overly critical of it because I am so JEALOUS that they beat me to creating something I wanted to make. (I also think Human Japanese is a great example of a language learning app that actually helps you understand the “why” and “how” of a language.) I can’t hate!īefore going to Brazil, I used Pimsleur audiobooks to practice Porgtuese, and had much more better luck actually speaking the language. Fast forward to now, when Duolingo offers Vietnamese, Hebrew and Russian, and is working on Korean, Hindi and even Yiddish*, to name a few. ![]() Again, to be fair, that may be because to get outside of Europe, it often would have to accommodate other writing systems, and it doesn’t have the infrastructure to teach you Chinese symbols, a syllabary, an alphabet, etc. It seemed, initially, to prioritize European languages, and nerd languages like Klingon, over more commonly spoken languages.To be fair though, this lack of context is a popular “immersion learning” style that is also favored by Rosetta Stone. Maybe most people don’t want/need to know those things. Duolingo does zero explaining of why sometimes “book” is one word, and sometimes it’s another. I had never taken German in school, so the word order, syntax, noun declensions, etc. If you didn’t study the language in college, Duolingo is not going to be very comprehensive.I was not very well prepared, despite having passed all the levels. I went to Portugal and attempted to speak Portuguese the year I discovered Duolingo. Most of their experience is playing a game, with little effort to help you understand the “why” behind the language, or make you practice speaking out loud. It doesn’t prepare you that well to actually speak the language abroad.But eventually I grew to have a few problems with it: The user experience of Duolingo is addictive, and delightful. I spent countless hours on Duolingo moving through every course they offered at the time: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French and German (I am a major foreign language nerd). They had almost the exact same mission statement, plus a cool backstory, a really creative business model, and funding by people like Ashton Kutcher. Lily has 7 younger sisters as shown in this lesson.I have a love/hate relationship with Duolingo. There was a time a couple years ago where I sat and thought, “I have a great idea! I should start an app company that offers affordable courses in foreign languages using beautiful design.”Ĭue to two hours later, when I discovered Duolingo.In the short " The kind of filter your mom uses", Lily has a pet cat.Her name is probably based on the German word for purple, "Lila.".Lily appears to write off Valentine's Day as "just another consumer holiday", though this might be a façade to conceal the fact that she actually enjoys it.Lily refused to make a new year's resolution for 2021.Zari asks if she's okay, since it's uncommon for her to act like this. When Zari mentions that she's gonna participate in the show, Lily gets excited to point of blushing, with glowing eyes. Lily loves the singer Angélique Kidjo.Lily really likes pie, as seen when Zari says "surprising facts about Pi", she gets excited thinking Zari was talking about pie.Lily is implied to be of Spaniard ethnicity and has an Aunt named Tara.Lily is described as a introverted and unenthused teen that secretly cares a lot.She has a classmate that she doesn’t know, as seen in "What’s Your Name.". ![]() Lily ends up being interested in Pirate Island, as seen in "Pirate Land.".She is allergic to horses, as seen in "My Horse Hates Me.".She does not dance, as seen in "What’s Your Name.".Junior really likes Lily as seen in "Love Letter", "I Like Your Tie" and "Isn't This A Date.".Lily's favorite color is purple, and prefers to wear purple clothing, as seen in "Lily's clothes".Lily dislikes the sun, as seen in "Lily's clothes".Lily works at a clothing store, as seen in "The Refund", "Vacation Clothes" and "I Am The Manager".She is most likely 14-18, but again, her cannon age is just "Teenage". Although she has no canonical offical age from the part of Duolingo stories themselves, she has been confirmed to be "Teenage". If you know something that doesn't appear here, contribute and document here!). (Bits of information about Lily's character and lore are scrambled across dozens of Stories, videos and Social media posts. Stories and the characters names may be different depending on your language. ![]()
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