Duolingo
Windows Store, duolingo.com
If you want to stretch your French vocabulary beyond a simple “une bière, s’il vous plaît”, or take your German further than “eine Bratwurst bitte”, Duolingo is here to help. Available from the Windows Store, it’s a brilliant piece of free languagelearning software.
For English speakers, the choice of languages is extensive: Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Irish, Welsh, Danish, Swedish, Turkish, Russian and even Esperanto. Duolingo’s content is crowdsourced, meaning that certain classes – including Vietnamese and Hebrew – are still in beta, but the languages listed above are finished and fully functional.
Embarrassingly, PC & Tech Authority’s collective knowledge of Irish began and ended at “sláinte”, so we decided to give the Duolingo course a go. The app’s attractive interface relies on images,…
