Monolingual or bilingual ? The cons and pros of language knowledge on your brain has been examined by linguistics. Some of them hardly advocate that being bilingual improves your brain activities. Is it a sight of wisdom or a trouble we have to bother ? Surprisingly, Swedish have been taught Swedish according to Duolingo. Wait a minute. What? Anyway, thanks to the developments, lots of the people start to learn a new language within the novel language app "Duolingo". It is easy to dare and has a user-friendly interface. Humankind really loves being taught within the easiest way. Learning a second language was made easier and more convenient with the introduction of a revolutionary and creative app called Duolingo, almost five years ago. Since then, it has continued to grow its language database as well as its users, going up to 19 languages and over 120 million users! Recently, Duolingo has released the most popular languages that have been tried to learn by millions. Let's check statistics. Fig 1. The most popular language studied on Duolingo in each country. Fig 2. The second most popular language studied on Duolingo in each country. What about Swedish? Duolingo’s Swedish course turns out to be the most popular in Sweden itself: 27% of all users in Sweden are learning Swedish. Why would that be the case? Immigration to Sweden has been skyrocketing in recent years: one in six Swedish residents in 2015 was born outside of Sweden. The fastest growing foreign-born groups are from Syria and Afghanistan, reflecting a recent increase in the refugee population. Duolingo recently released a Swedish course for Arabic speakers, which will hopefully help! But it’s not just Sweden. There are several other countries where immigrants are using Duolingo to learn the language of their new home. In the United States, immigrants constitute 13.1% of the total population. But even more — over 20% of the population — speak a language other than English at home, and over 25 million people speak English less than “Very Well”. Perhaps not surprisingly, then, English is the second most popular language in the United States, attracting 21% of the country’s Duolingo users. The second most popular language in Norway. Another case is Norway, where Norwegian is the second most popular language (with 18% of all users). Similarly to Sweden, Norway has been recently accepting many migrants and refugees. According to the data from the beginning of the year, immigrants constitute 13.4% of the total population in Norway. A broad research is available in Duolingo Official webpage: http://making.duolingo.com/which-countries-study-which-languages-and-what-can-we-learn-from-it
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