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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'm pretty sure that this post is a total load of bs.
- It's real...
  
  Source: https://x.com/duolingo/status/1879582775055176008
  
  I like how they don't label the y-axis at all to give any sense of scale. This graph could be showing a jump from 10 to 22 people. 🤷
  
  My niece is one of tiktok's victims and she is as young and lazy to even construct herself a sandwich. Nevermind learning a language as confusing and backwards as mandarin or Cantonese.
  
  Could it be just bots?

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