Learning a language has become popular in Lockdown
In his weekly tech slot, Wayne decided to hop on the language learning craze of Lockdown and take a look at the most popular free platform that facilitates this - Duolingo.
It has courses in around 34 languages, and that's only counting the ones that use English as the language of instruction. There are many more if you add up all the courses that use a different base language, such as Catalan for Spanish speakers.
The 34 languages for English speakers—excluding languages from works of fiction—are: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, French, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian (in beta), Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Navajo (in beta), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and Welsh. A Finnish course is in development.
And, for the Star Trek geeks among you- you can even learn Klingon.
Have a listen to Wayne's chat with Ollie and me on The Big Breakfast Blaa - and for an added treat - the lads tried a bit of Dutch and German...
