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TikTok US users learn Chinese on Duolingo after adopting the Chinese social app. It’s called RedNote Before the TikTok ban. A US law scheduled to take effect on January 19 unless terminated by The Supreme Court will see TikTok removed from US app stores and stop the app from running on users’ devices. Install VPN client.
Instead of working around the ban, More than 700 million TikTok users RedNote (aka Xiaohongshu) has taken to the social video platform, sparking some surprising cultural exchanges between citizens of the two countries—not to mention several requests from American users to help Chinese users with their English homework.
Although some TikTok refugees have been around since then was struggling with technical problems While signing up for RedNote and others were immediately fired for community violations, the move from one Chinese-owned app to another is meant to send a strong signal to the US government and TikTok rivals like Meta. For the kind of social networking experience that China has created and that US companies have only managed to emulate.
The move also serves as a pulse check on whether US users are worried about Chinese companies harvesting their personal data for nefarious uses — one of the main factors that led to TikTok’s ban in the first place. (As it turns out, as this migration shows, many don’t.)
However, since Shanghai-based Xiaohongshu/RedNote is designed for a Chinese audience, the default language of the app is Mandarin Chinese. This prompted US users of the language learning app Duolingo to take a crash course in Mandarin.
according to The Duolingo app saw a nearly 216% increase in new Mandarin learning in the U.S. compared to this time last year, with a spike in mid-January due to RedNote adoption. In addition, the company says that a survey asking new users to answer “How did you hear about us” has seen a corresponding increase in people choosing “TikTok” as the answer.
“Oh, NOW you’re learning Mandarin,” the company joked In the letter X on tuesday. He also posted a video on TikTok promoting the use of the app to learn Chinese. In a short video, the company’s green owl mascot at an airport bound for China was overlaid with the caption, “Because I’d rather move to China and learn Mandarin on Duolingo.” The video currently has more than half a million likes. Another new video aimed at teaching Mandarin phrases to “TikTok refugees” has over 620,000 likes.
According to application intelligence provider data Application figuresConsumer demand for Duolingo’s language learning courses has also impacted the app’s install base.
The firm says the Duolingo app has seen a 36% increase in US downloads on the App Store and Google Play since January 3 – an early sign that users may be testing various Chinese social apps to join RedNote later in the month. .
A week ago, Duolingo ranked in the 40s for Best Apps (minus games) and Best Overall (including games). Currently, it is ranked 22nd Overall and 20th in Top Apps.
