Duolingo is a language-learning platform that includes a website, an app, and a sociopathic owl mascot that specializes in threatening users to continue their courses. From passive-aggressive notifications after a period of inactivity to visiting your bedroom while you're asleep, it knows no limits. As the owl became more and more confident in its wicked ways, some of the 300 million Duolingo users started creating memes to tell about the times it came hunting for them. That's right, it doesn't matter if they're learning conjunctions or idioms, the owl is always watching. Waiting. And if they haven't completed their daily task by midnight, it's a bloody nightmare. Continue scrolling and enjoy some of the funniest Duolingo memes from Twitter, Instagram and pretty much any other corner of the internet!
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I'm scared for my life now, since I'm taking Japanese with duo.
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The Duolingo project was started in 2009 in Pittsburgh by Carnegie Mellon University professor Luis von Ahn (creator of reCAPTCHA) and his graduate student Severin Hacker. Initially, Luis Von Ahn wanted to create a program that would both teach its users a foreign language and have them translate simple phrases in documents, though the translation feature has since been removed.
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*Throws phone out the window to be destroyed by missile*
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The project was originally sponsored by Luis von Ahn's MacArthur fellowship and a National Science Foundation grant. Additional funding came from an investment Union Square Ventures and actor Ashton Kutcher's firm, A-Grade Investments.
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Duolingo started its private beta on November 30, 2011, and more than 300,000 users joined the waiting list. On June 19, 2012, Duolingo launched for the general public. Due to popular interest, it has received many investments including a $20 million Series C round of investment led by Kleiner Caufield & Byers and a $45 million Series D round of investment led by Google Capital. Currently, Duolingo employs 95 people, of whom many had been working for Google.
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All language-learning features in Duolingo are free of charge, but it uses periodic advertising in both its mobile and web browser applications. Users can get rid of it by paying a subscription fee.
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Morbid Language Learning
Forgetting Your Lesson
If I saw that I would be like: breath in... Breath out..... MOM....!
Bottom one: me when I’m up at 1:00AM and hear my parents walking up the stares
Important Questions
Where am I? What is the meaning of life? Why are you not doing your duolingo lessons every day?
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The Final Duolingo Form
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NO! Do NOT TELL DUOLINGO OWL YOUR LOCATION! *whispers* you might die
Duolingo's Here!
Duolingo Bird In Real Life
Last Chance
Where Were You?!
Scary Owl
Nobody Cares For Your English
Practice! Now!
A Real Threatening Aura
You Missed Your Lesson
Relentless Bird
LOL! While Duolingo can be annoying, I know some Japanese because of it. And yes. I survived 3 weeks without Duolingo...My inbox was a wreck.
I did esperanto for a while, but almost did it for a year without missing a single lesson so I decided to stop myself. Now, I'm taking japanese in hs and so I'm practicing on duolingo too
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I'm terrified and I'm probably fleeing to a remote island in South Africa because the Duolingo bird has terrorized my phone and family for the past 2 weeks that it has been installed. Goodbye all.
These are so true, but the creepiest one was when I got a sentence in German that translated to "I have six nephews and three nieces." Because I do. WTF Duolingo? That s**t's not even on my FB.
Run away and burn down everything you have duolingo on. It’s only a matter of time before he’s here.
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My.mom, who's an elderly lady who doesn't know so.much about devices and apps has been using Duolingo for learning English. It has been like 6 months now. She was very excited about it at first, now I often hear her yelling at the phone, arguing with the app haha it's priceless xD
It's nice to see I'm not the only one being endlessly harrassed and guilt-tripped by Duolingo
Heh, I’m being harrassed and guilt-tripped by them too... 😖😖😖
Load More Replies... I just started Duolingo in German, I didn't know this thing was a death sentence for my cats!! H E L P ! ! !
I stopped playing Duolingo months ago on my old school account- I wonder how much longer I have left to live
Ok so I am learning german on duolingo and I feel like it's planning something because it felt the need to teach me "Duo is strong and great" in german.
RUN. KEEP RUNNING. KEEP RUNNING AND RUNNING AND NEVER LOOK BACK. THAT BIRD KNOWS WHO YOU ARE, AND IT WILL FIND YOU AND KILL YOU. IN FRENCH.
I don't know if this entire post was an ad for duolingo, but I downloaded the app! Japanese language, here I go!
Duolingo is scary... my friend and I joke about it a lot and one when I texted him saying Duolingo is watching I got a notification on my computer saying Duolingo notifications didn’t seem to be helping and that they would stop sending them... Duolingo was blocked from sending me notifications...
i do English in there cause i'm Japanese but duo lingo was freaking killing me with notifications ks-ks (i know some English im just not fluent)
The "Coming Soon" picture is Duolingo leaning into it and teasing what turned out to be an April Fool's Day announcement that the Owl will literally arrive where you are and shame you.
Dear @Duolingo please release my family it has been six days I am scared.
We used Duolingo in my high school Spanish class, the stories they have on there are actually kinda funny, but these memes were so relatable
yeah, I've noticed a lot of sponsored and masked content lately... the UPS guy? 0-0
Load More Replies... LOL! While Duolingo can be annoying, I know some Japanese because of it. And yes. I survived 3 weeks without Duolingo...My inbox was a wreck.
I did esperanto for a while, but almost did it for a year without missing a single lesson so I decided to stop myself. Now, I'm taking japanese in hs and so I'm practicing on duolingo too
Load More Replies... I'm terrified and I'm probably fleeing to a remote island in South Africa because the Duolingo bird has terrorized my phone and family for the past 2 weeks that it has been installed. Goodbye all.
These are so true, but the creepiest one was when I got a sentence in German that translated to "I have six nephews and three nieces." Because I do. WTF Duolingo? That s**t's not even on my FB.
Run away and burn down everything you have duolingo on. It’s only a matter of time before he’s here.
Load More Replies... My.mom, who's an elderly lady who doesn't know so.much about devices and apps has been using Duolingo for learning English. It has been like 6 months now. She was very excited about it at first, now I often hear her yelling at the phone, arguing with the app haha it's priceless xD
It's nice to see I'm not the only one being endlessly harrassed and guilt-tripped by Duolingo
Heh, I’m being harrassed and guilt-tripped by them too... 😖😖😖
Load More Replies... I just started Duolingo in German, I didn't know this thing was a death sentence for my cats!! H E L P ! ! !
I stopped playing Duolingo months ago on my old school account- I wonder how much longer I have left to live
Ok so I am learning german on duolingo and I feel like it's planning something because it felt the need to teach me "Duo is strong and great" in german.
RUN. KEEP RUNNING. KEEP RUNNING AND RUNNING AND NEVER LOOK BACK. THAT BIRD KNOWS WHO YOU ARE, AND IT WILL FIND YOU AND KILL YOU. IN FRENCH.
I don't know if this entire post was an ad for duolingo, but I downloaded the app! Japanese language, here I go!
Duolingo is scary... my friend and I joke about it a lot and one when I texted him saying Duolingo is watching I got a notification on my computer saying Duolingo notifications didn’t seem to be helping and that they would stop sending them... Duolingo was blocked from sending me notifications...
i do English in there cause i'm Japanese but duo lingo was freaking killing me with notifications ks-ks (i know some English im just not fluent)
The "Coming Soon" picture is Duolingo leaning into it and teasing what turned out to be an April Fool's Day announcement that the Owl will literally arrive where you are and shame you.
Dear @Duolingo please release my family it has been six days I am scared.
We used Duolingo in my high school Spanish class, the stories they have on there are actually kinda funny, but these memes were so relatable
yeah, I've noticed a lot of sponsored and masked content lately... the UPS guy? 0-0
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