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Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote

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TikTok U.S. users have been learning Chinese on Duolingo in increasing numbers amid their adoption of a Chinese social app called RedNote ahead of the

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Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote

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Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote

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I don't understand how the Tiktok ban is related to another apps' user decline.
- the app people are going to instead of TikTok is RedNote which is only built with the Chinese language. so some people are trying to learn Chinese to navigate the app.
- I do not see anything in the article about user decline for any app, which app is losing users besides TikTok?

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