Successive governments have tried and failed to encourage more people to speak Irish but a free mobile app may be about to make all the difference. Duolingo, which was named by Apple as its App of the ...

Irish President Michael D. Higgins has honored the work of volunteers who developed the Irish language learning course on popular language learning app Duolingo. Their efforts have opened the language ...

The free language-learning phone app Duolingo has reached an incredible one million Irish language learners around the world! It is just over a year since the Irish language course was released in ...

ONE MILLION people from around the world have signed up to learn the Irish language using a free language-learning app. Duolingo boasts 100 million users worldwide learning through one of forty ...

Since Irish’s rollout in 2013, Duolingo has added Welsh, Hawaiian and Navajo, along with the constructed global language Esperanto. Haitian Creole, Scottish Gaelic, Latin and Yiddish are currently in ...

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An upcoming update for Apple IOS 14 will include an added Autocorrection for Irish Gaelic. Do we need it? Ola Majekodunmi, presenter on Raidió Na Life spoke to Louise Mc Sharry on her show on 2fm on ...

DuoLingo have hit the 1M learner mark in just one year after launching the language learning option. Moderator of DuoLingo 'AlexInIreland', who contributed over 50% of the course to the website, ...

Hearing that the computer app Duolingo was a game-changer in language study, I decided last January that I would test it in 2019 by learning Italian. This was a random choice, based largely on Italian ...

At the time in early 2013, there were five languages on Duolingo, the smallest of which, Italian, has an estimated 67.9 million speakers worldwide. By comparison, at its height in the 18th century, ...