how to make a new course on duolingo

Can you create a course on Duolingo?

How do you add a course on Duolingo?

Can you have more than 2 courses on Duolingo?

How long does it take to create a Duolingo course?

What is better Duolingo or Babbel?

Is Rosetta Stone better than Duolingo?

What's the easiest foreign language to learn?

What are the hardest languages to learn ranked?

Can you learn 3 languages at once?

Can Duolingo make you fluent?

Is Duolingo worth the time?

How does Duolingo make money?

CEFR course alignment

We’ve rebuilt our most popular courses from scratch, ensuring systematic coverage of what you need to learn to be able to communicate in your second language. In addition, we presented the material in a new sequence that follows a well-established international standard, the CEFR.

Quick & helpful tips

Tips are a recent addition to our courses. They provide short explanations of tricky concepts to help our users learn. They are fun and to the point, and they use tons of eye-catching and quirky images! Read more in our previous blog post.

Improved in-app assessment

We care about the effectiveness of our courses, which is why we’re also improving the way we assess how much our users are learning. In our CEFR-aligned courses, users now take a quiz at the end of each section, which tests how well they know the material taught in that section.

When you decide to create a new language course, where do you start?

First, our language learning experts develop lists of communicative goals, the words and phrases needed to accomplish each goal, and every grammatical concept we'll teach in the course, organized by proficiency level.

How does that work at the level of an individual skill?

For example, once you decide on vocabulary about shopping, how do you turn that into a skill?

What about when you update existing courses, like the German one?

When you align an existing course to the CEFR, do you also start from scratch?

Is it possible to translate a course to more languages?

For example, since we already have an Arabic course for English speakers, couldn't we translate the English from that course to Spanish to make an Arabic course for Spanish speakers?

How long does it take to create a brand-new course?

It depends! Here are some of the most important factors for the timeline of a new course:

World-class courses from world-class experts

Our courses are thoughtfully designed by language teaching experts here at Duolingo and by talented language experts from the linguistic communities themselves: our course contributors. And the work is never finished, even after all those skills, sentences, and translations are programmed in.

What do hints mean in Duolingo?

Duolingo shows hints to students when they hover over or tap on a word that is underlined with gray dots during a lesson.

What is an incubator in a sentence?

The Incubator uses a special notation to specify multiple possible translations of a sentence using just one string. For example, if a translation of a sentence in the Incubator is specified as " [He/She] went to the park" then both "He went to the park" and "She went to the park" will be accepted as answers.

Executing the action

Here you will be able to either "Reset Progress" or "Remove" a course.

External links

Duolingo Help Center, How do I delete a language from my profile?. Note that they teach how to delete a course (not a language) from your profile. As of May 2019 the instructions are outdated.

1. Change your daily goal

The first thing you should do if you want to use Duolingo more seriously to learn a language is to edit your daily goal. You can do this on the mobile app by clicking on the fire emoji that represents your streak.

2. Duolingo trees, Crowns & Golden owls

When you choose a course on Duolingo, your goal is to complete the “tree.” A tree is basically all of the lessons that are available for the language course that you chose.

3. Leveling up

Once you have gotten your “Golden Owl”, your work is not done yet! The ultimate goal for serious users on Duolingo is to hit level 25 in your language.

4. the Duome

I’m pretty sure I learned about the Duome from Duolingo forums (where people talk about their progress and ask questions etc.)

5. Learn languages FROM other languages

One of my favorite ways to use Duolingo is to do “reverse trees.” This means that instead of doing English to Spanish, you could do Spanish to English. Even better, once you know Spanish, then you can use Spanish to get to your next language!

7. Using the desktop website

When I first started using Duolingo more seriously (in 2018 when I was learning Italian) I actually had no idea that Duolingo even had a website. But this has been such an awesome discovery since!

8. Duolingo Podcasts

I have only listened to a few of these in French, but that’s because I’m not really a podcast person! Currently, Duolingo only has podcasts in Spanish and French which you can find on the Apple Podcast App for free!