Published on December 11, 2023
The beauty of this world lies in the differences among nations. There are so many different nations that harbor their own different cultures, behavioral traits, and of course, languages. Each nation’s language carries its own emotions, its own history, and that’s what makes it more integral. There is so much to learn from our neighboring countries and beyond, and most times, the only difference we need to come over is learning the language of other nations.
Learning a new language doesn’t only make you bilingual and allow you to peek more closely into the culture of other countries, there are several more benefits that come along with it:
Enhances Memory
Getting a hold of a foreign language enables you to be mentally alert as it makes you pay attention to the body language cues.
Prepares You To Be A Better Multitasker
Bilingual speakers get the upper hand when it comes to problem-solving. The functionality of cognitive muscles in order to navigate several languages makes you more capable of shifting tasks along the way.
Encourages Cultural Appreciation
When you’re equipped with a new language, you are more enduring and far more adaptive when exposed to a variety of cultures.
Encourages Creativity
Learning a new language helps you to dive into that culture. This often results in the paradigm shift within your own world and you become more creative as there is an apparent spark between the culture and you.
Expands Your Brain
When you do pushups, there is an increase in your muscles. Likewise, when you learn a new language, your brain undergoes some prominent growth too. Particularly, there is a growth in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus.
Duolingo – The Popular Language Tool For All
Over the years, the tech industry has come to aid anyone who’s looking to learn a new language by introducing them to language apps. You can easily learn a language on the go. Among these apps, the one that stood out the most is Duolingo.
In case you didn’t know what Duolingo is, fret not, we’ve got it covered for you. Basically, Duolingo is a renowned language tool founded as an academic project by professor Luis Von Ahn and his Ph.D. student Severin Hacker who hail from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. The reason we label it popular not just for its popularity’s sake. It has over 500 million users and in over 9 rounds, Duolingo raised $183.3 M according to the Crunchbase report. By January 2021, meaning the beginning of this year, the investors estimated that the total valuation of the app would be as high as $2.4 billion.
Whooot! That’s a lot, now, isn’t it? Because learning a new tongue has its perks and people worldwide, like you (after reading the benefits), are aware of it.
But then again, what makes Duolingo so special?
1) It’s easily accessible to all.
2) All features are FREE!
3) The chance to learn multiple languages at the same time.
4) Lastly, gamification keeps its users hooked to the screen.
When Duolingo & Lottie Met
Taking the fourth and last point into account, Duolingo’s objective was to make learning more fun and interactive than just gravitating towards a text-based learning method. Urgh, that’s terribly boring, right?
By implementing bite-sized lessons and interactive animations, it keeps its 500 million users hook to the app and they can’t leave without putting a new word or two into their tongue. This further motivates them to work harder to reach their goals.
Now that we’ve mentioned animations, we’re bound to pop Lottie’s name here. Because Lottie brings a lot of benefits (such as being light-weighted, getting incorporated into any platform without quality distortion, and being scalable at run-time) into the table and Animoox is ever so grateful.
There is a comprehensive use of Lottie animations in the app and website of Duolingo. As the language tool aimed to enhance its user’s experience and make their time worthwhile, Lottie animations came a lot in handy in this regard.
Duolingo began using LottieFiles for nearly 2.5 years and in all this time, it has uploaded thousands of Lottie animations into its app and website, made use of tools like Lottie Preview, Lottie Editor, and LottieFiles test app for iOS and Android to test and ensure everything is in place, troubleshoot the work quickly before implementation, and optimizing the experience.
As Duolingo begins to grow every day, Lottie animation’s usage becomes more useful as it helps in keeping the file size smaller and assures top-notch performance in both app and website. Thus, keeping its millions of learners delighted and encouraged to keep on learning multiple foreign tongues.
