Considered among Central and Eastern Europe’s best English speakers by several international studies, Poles on the other hand appeared more prone to choose Spanish rather than German as a second choice.īuilding on the growth already observed in 2020, Asian languages are becoming more and more popular among Duolingo users, with Japanese now surpassing Italian as the 5 th most popular language on the app, Korean flagged as the fastest-growing language in countries like France, Germany, Brazil and India, and Chinese overtaking both Russian and Portuguese to reach the 8 th spot worldwide. The latter was the second most popular language in Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. English keeps the crown, Asian languages growing fastĪmong the highlights of this past year, it won’t come as a surprise that English remains the most learned foreign language (including in all four Visegrad countries), followed by French, Spanish and German. The most downloaded and popular language app in the world, Duolingo offers courses for 40 languages to more than 500 million users.

Note that the ranking only looks at the number of lessons completed per learner and does not necessarily reflect how well each of them performs in the Duolingo exercises. With the single highest number of lessons completed per learner, Czechs this year rank first in the world, followed by the Japanese, Belarusians, Germans (former number one) and Hungarians (ex-number three). Czechs are Duolingo’s most persistent language learners Prague, Czech Republic – Czechs and Hungarians rank among the world’s hardest-working nations when it comes to learning a new language, according to Duolingo’s 2021 report.

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