Language learning app Duolingo has apologised after a German lesson appeared to teach tutees a sentence referring to controversial author JK Rowling as “mean”. A German lesson on the app included the ...

In August 2025, a rumor spread online that the language learning app Duolingo apologized for calling "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling "mean" in a German lesson. Duolingo did, in fact, apologize in an ...

Matt Whittle has experience writing and editing accessible education-related content in health, technology, nursing and business subjects. His work has been featured on Sleep.org, Psychology.org and ...

If you’re traveling soon to a place where you don’t know the language well (or at all), then you’ll want to download a language learning app to your smartphone before you embark on your journey. These ...