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The fact that these are available on Duolingo but not Bengali is a mockery to Bangladeshi people.
by jiaminglimjm 5y ago
The fact that these are available on Duolingo but not Bengali is a mockery to Bangladeshi people.
- causality0 5y agoMore Duolingo users are interested in learning Esperanto than Bengali.
- auvi 5y agoconsidering that there are about 300 million native Bengali speaking people in the world (mostly in Bangladesh, and West Bengal which is a state in India).
- LorenPechtel 5y agoIt's not how many people speak it. It's how many people want to learn it as a second language. How many people would be in a position to want to learn Bengali if they don't already live there?
- nkrisc 5y agoHow so? Duolingo is not some authoritative list of “languages that are important” where any language not included is, by definition, unimportant. Sometimes my name isn’t included in those souvenirs that have lots of different names on them, yet it is not a mockery of me. It probably should be included, but is it really a mockery if it’s not?
- felipeqq2 5y agoDuolingo has a platform where volunteers can contribute to develop new courses. If you are fluent both in Bengali and in English, you should definitely consider signing up. https://incubator.duolingo.com https://incubator.duolingo.com
- yorwba 5y agoYeah, that Duolingo is a for-profit company that relies on volunteers to develop their courses is probably a mockery of someone, but it also explains why nobody has gifted them a Bengali course yet. On the other hand, people who learn a conlang are self-selected for willingness to spend a lot of time on something that's unlikely to gain them any material reward, so it's unsurprising some of them worked on a Duolingo course. There are also almost three times as many Wikipedia articles in Esperanto as in Bengali, despite the Esperanto Wikipedia having less than a third the number of active users: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias/Table2 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias/Table2
- LorenPechtel 5y agoSomebody has to pay the costs of running the system.
- LorenPechtel 5y agoIt comes down to demand and whether someone takes the time to create the lessons.
- gvv 5y agoThe fact that these are available on Duolingo but not [INSERT MISSING LANGUAGE] is a mockery to [INSERT NATIONALITY] people.