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With 97.6 million monthly active users, Duolingo is the most popular language-learning platform on the internet. It's a distinct brand with a playful image, bold marketing, and a mascot that has become notorious for guilt-tripping you into completing your lessons.
Adding to the fun, people even created the subreddit r/duolingomemes to share jokes about their adventures on the app. So join us and dive into weird sentences, threatening reminders, and the sense of accomplishment that comes as soon as you register.
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Intruder Alert
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More Spanish To Learn
Fish that is a Panda 1 year ago
Once you start Duolingo, you can never stop unless the owl says so . . .
Even though Duolingo memes have been flowing around the internet for years now, Duo's recent redesign, which gave the mascot a more intense and assertive personality, has led to an even greater influx of humorous content and creative posts from users.
"As our TikTok was starting to take off, our social media, community content, and campaigns [were still] pretty separate," says the company's senior global social media manager Zaria Parvez.
"It took about a year to start making our campaigns social-first and our mantra for 2023 has been about shifting our whole marketing strategy to being social-first."
#3
Duolingo You Have Gone To Far
#4
Not Your Boyfriend He's The Duolingo Owl
#5
Found On Ig. Duo Built A Notorious Reputation Outside Of The Community
Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
This meme is called ATTEMPTED MURDER and I will die on this hill.
"Our first success wasn't actually creating video content ... it was from commenting on other people’s videos," Parvez adds. "Those comments ended up becoming almost like the new push notification for Duolingo. Everyone started seeing Duo pop up everywhere."
People really liked it, so their strategy was to work backward from that. "It was honestly all very scrappy at the start – just taking moments of inspiration from knowing the platform, being social-first, and existing in culture. It's that mentality which really built these videos and 'CAP,' our first viral hit, happened pretty soon after that."
#6
Dutch Duolingo
Samsquatch & Monko 1 year ago
Dutch DUOLINGO taught me the mandatory and important phrase of “you are an apple”. Ah yes, I tell everyone daily that they are apples, thank you for teaching me this important phrase
Miomirko Buhtlić 1 year ago
One of the early German lessons is to know how to say that your snail comes from Austria.
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Kare Deter 1 year ago
Well you know, things that you would realistically need to say at some point...
Farah the Turtle 1 year ago
Im on an online course and I snort laughed and now they are all glaring at me
#8
The Dogs Wear Hats
Kare Deter 1 year ago
I can order a hamburger, a coffee, and ask where the bathroom is in Spanish. Between those three things I could probably survive a trip to Spain.
Roman Spruce 1 year ago
Because a grand total of like only 6 million people use it, and most of the people who immigrate to Portugal already come from Portuguese speaking countries.
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#9
Thanks
Parvez says that nobody can plan virality, but you can plan a mentality that prioritizes it. "Our openness to being scrappy and experimenting [is] what has set us apart."
"Everyone has the mindset [that] if we want to go viral, we have to make it happen fast. That's the key to consistency, setting a mentality, and becoming mission-driven," she notes.
#10
F**k That’s Brutal
Karina 1 year ago
We're vikings, we wish to throw you from a cliff so you can go to Valhall. Is that so wrong?
Dark Pigeon 1 year ago
I hear no complaints from the ones doen there. So I guess it is fine?!
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You Are Correct
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After One Duolingo French Session
The social media manager says there was some initial pushback within the company here and there from people who weren't completely onboard with the new voice. After all, it was pretty much a new grad coming in and saying, "Hey, this is exactly how we're changing and revolutionizing everything" to someone who has been working in the industry for over a decade. But she says people became receptive as they started to see the impact of it.
#14
I Waited So Long To Make This Meme
Miomirko Buhtlić 1 year ago
It can actually ruin the joke when the word is misspelled (or bad grammar)
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You Are Already Dead
Heather Talma 1 year ago
I don't know about other courses but the Japanese course certainly likes to use old memes. From "is this a pigeon?" to "what does the fox say?" to "I am a cat lover and I love to run".
#16
Handful Of French Words I Know To Bully Everyone
#17
Lost In Translation
Kari Panda 1 year ago
Have you ever seen Duolingo‘s (official!) YouTube channel? Definitely a psychopath.
Probably Legal 1 year ago
My Duolingo widget has Duo standing in front of a burning house, smirking
#18
The Real Meaning Of Life
MATRAXIA. LEONARDO 1 year ago
the "duolingo" word has "lingo", and in spanish means "language".
#19
Duolingo Is Superior Tho
#20
What Is The Duolingo Owl Planning
#21
Vaffanculo
#22
Should I Be Scared?
#23
Funny
Talis 1 year ago
It's from 2018, so it could be the orange one. But it's a translation German -> English and the tweet is from Italy, so who knows?!
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Nightmare Fuel!
#25
Language Bird Is Crying
the_avenging_knight (her/she) 1 year ago
Duolingo has gotten very creative when it comes to their threats.
#26
Thank You Duolingo
#27
No Reason To Miss Today's Lesson
af199606 af199606 9 months ago
No reason is solid enough to miss my lessons.
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Woah Woah Woah There Duolingo, I'm Just Trying To Learn German
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
At least it's polite by using the formal definition of "your" in the translation
#29
Me Too Duo
#30
Uh Oh
Araya Ellis 1 year ago
Please be German.... Please be German... Please be German.... Please be German
#33
Poems Of Threats
#34
This Some Al-Qaeda S**t
#40
Its Always One Of The Best Feelings
#41
“Spanish Or Vanish” Is A Popular Saying, Thought I’d Make One For The Language I Am Learning
Samsquatch & Monko 1 year ago
French or I will slam your head onto a bench and drop a 20 pound weight on the bench
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#44
Hola
Kari Panda 1 year ago
Oh, as long as I see a sentence on Duolingo, I can understand it. But give my the same sentence in a foreign tv show and I‘m entirely lost…
#45
Honest Work
Kari Panda 1 year ago
Not me repeating one of the earliest sessions for the umpteenth time so I can keep my streak *cough*
#46
Just Like When I Was In Hospital And This Happened
#49
Bruh
_-DungeonKeeper-_ 1 year ago
"Who are they gonna tell, their parents?" Was way too funny. I don't regret laughing
#50
A Funny Title
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#53
These Reminders Don't Seem To Be Working, So We'll Stop Sending Them
#54
What Would The Phrase For Other Languages Be?
#57
I Think Duolingo Wants Me To Murder Someone
KillerKiwi 1 year ago
Can you explain to me, why he’s still alive? Huh? That’s what I thought.
#62
Duo Finally Lost It
#65
I Feel Sorry For This Man
#68
When You’re Learning A New Language
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the_avenging_knight (her/she) 1 year ago
You know I was thinking about downloading Duolingo to learn german, but i think I enjoy having alive and not mentally scarred family members,
Violet Goldie 9 months ago
im learing german with doulingo and he has not threatened me yet *cough cough* YET
Load More Replies... KillerKiwi 1 year ago
Duolingo does have some funky sentences, but it has helped me learn new words. I’ve been in a German immersion program for 10 years and Duolingo helped me learn feminine, masculine, and neutral words recently… so better late than never, I guess?
Ece Cenker 1 year ago
And only after an article about Duo would Panda have a 20+ question quiz! Seriously, is this the revenge of cute animals or what?
the_avenging_knight (her/she) 1 year ago
You know I was thinking about downloading Duolingo to learn german, but i think I enjoy having alive and not mentally scarred family members,
Violet Goldie 9 months ago
im learing german with doulingo and he has not threatened me yet *cough cough* YET
Load More Replies... KillerKiwi 1 year ago
Duolingo does have some funky sentences, but it has helped me learn new words. I’ve been in a German immersion program for 10 years and Duolingo helped me learn feminine, masculine, and neutral words recently… so better late than never, I guess?
Ece Cenker 1 year ago
And only after an article about Duo would Panda have a 20+ question quiz! Seriously, is this the revenge of cute animals or what?
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