

The platform launched in India back in 2016. One of the most downloaded language learning apps worldwide, Duolingo offers over 100 total courses across 40 distinct languages, from Spanish, French, German, and Japanese, to Klingon. These stories are designed to help young children develop a love of learning and reading.Īlso Read: Language learners take up Ukrainian in show of solidarity - Duolingo

In addition, the company said Duolingo ABC has dozens of illustrated short stories for encouraging kids to read out loud and learn from real-time feedback with speech recognition. This includes interactive activities such as tracing letters with fingers, connecting images with phrases, identifying objects that start with specific letters, and more, the company said. The learning app offers an array of gamified lessons to help kids. The app also allows parents, guardians, and educators to track their child's learning progress, as per the company.Īlso Read: Ad-free subscription-based service adds $75m to Duolingo’s earnings In its current version, Duolingo ABC is a free app with no ads, and in-app purchases, designed to help children between the age groups of three to eight years learn how to read and write in English independently, the company said. The company said Duolingo ABC is available for users in India and can be downloaded from Google Play Store and App Store.

So currently, our app offers an excellent curriculum for kindergarten to second grade,” she said. And then just this past year, we added second-grade content. In the last year, we have added first-grade content. “We started with our kindergarten content. Harjo added that since the launch the company has been working to improve the app. We knew there was a need for it during the COVID-19 pandemic, so the company very quickly put this out,” Jessica Harjo, Director of Marketing, Duolingo ABC told Moneycontrol, during a virtual interaction. “When we launched in 2020, it was actually a rather quick launch, we launched in the US, because of the pandemic. Duolingo, a United States-based language learning platform, on February 28, launched its kids literacy app called 'Duolingo ABC' in India, years after initially releasing it in countries like the US, the United Kingdom and others, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
