Duolingo sees 216% rise in new US users learning Mandarin. Why are Americans learning Chinese?
TikTok ban looms in US, users in America are turning to another Chinese app- Xiaohongshu also known as RedNote. Since Shanghai-based RedNote is tailored for a Chinese audience, its default language is Mandarin. This has driven a surge of US users to Duolingo for a crash course in Mandarin.
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The US law, scheduled to go into effect on January 19, unless halted by the Supreme Court, will see TikTok removed from US app stores and will stop the app from functioning on users’ devices unless they install a VPN client.
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Why are Americans learning Chinese?
Instead of trying to work around the ban, over 700 million TikTok users have shifted over to the social video platform RedNote (aka Xiaohongshu), prompting a surprising cultural exchange between the two countries’ citizens — not to mention quite a few requests for American users to help with Chinese users’ English homework.
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