

at Duolingo, said: “How often do you get to bring together two iconic characters like this in such a fun way? It’s been a pleasure working with Rovio to bring this crossover to life and we hope the millions of Duolingo and Angry Bird fans out there will find it fun and provide them with more encouragement to keep learning.” The video follows on from last year’s April Fools video, Duolingo Push, that embraced memes created by the Duolingo community showing how Duo pursues people to complete their lessons.Ĭolin Watkins, Country Manager U.K. To highlight the crossover Duolingo will launch this video that sees Duo and Red wreak havoc and smash up a NYC bar when one of the patrons neglects to complete his Duolingo lesson.

The collaboration will be available globally and last for a month. Under the deal, Red from Angry Birds 2 will appear alongside Duo – the passive aggressive owl that reminds you to take your lessons and congratulates you when you learn – in Duolingo’s app of the year winning iOS and Android apps while Duo will appear as a new spell in Angry Birds 2. But Duolingo is there for you, letting you know you’re not alone, and you’ll never be alone….Duolingo has teamed up with gaming company Rovio to put its language teaching owl into Angry Birds. Picture the scene - you’re halfway through a Duolingo Swedish lesson, it’s tough, you have a little cry and eat some bread to wash away the tears.


In fact, there’s an entire Duolingo subreddit filled with scary and suspect interactions with the dreaded green bird. If you’ve ever dedicated some daily time to your Duolingo pursuit of language, you’ll know the green owl can be a thing of nightmares.įrom passive aggressive reminders to practice or else and manipulative sad little owl emails, the Duolingo owl quickly becomes your worst enemy.Īs Duolingo has over 300 million registered users as of today, it’s no surprise that the likes of Twitter and Reddit have exposed the Duo bird for what he really is - a fantastic, relatable meme. Duolingo, for instance, has a well-known green owl animation. These self-improvement apps like Idyoma and Duolingo sometimes have a mascot to make them more memorable and make the learning more fun. It’s nice to remember that there are some apps out there that can help you learn a new language right from your phone, wherever you are. There are so many apps available that will let you farm a cute ranch, shoot slime balls at other slime balls, and even crush some kind of candy.
