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Popular language-learning app, Duolingo is completing plans to include a music-learning app in its products. The company’s upcoming app will focus on piano, drums, and sheet music lessons. This may be one method the business intends to reach a larger audience and diversify its product offering from its flagship language learning app.

This was revealed by Steve Moser, an iOS developer, and reverse engineer, who discovered the new development by checking out images and codes hidden inside Duolingo’s mobile apps. These codes included images of piano keys and a drum, the branding “Duolingo Music,” and various lines of code referencing music sessions, songs, and music unit reviews, among other things.

Earlier this year, a report shows the company’s job listing for a learning scientist who will also double as an expert in music education and combines the theoretical knowledge of relevant learning in science research and teaching experience. The company was also in search of a freelance music composition and curricular consultant at that time.

Even though the company is yet to make an announcement concerning the upcoming app, people may watch out for the company’s Duocon event (a global event at the intersection of language, learning, and technology) on 11th October.

All you need to know about Duolingo and its apps

Duolingo is a language learning app and language certification corporation based in the United States. Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker developed the platform in 2011, and it has since evolved to become one of the world’s most popular language-learning apps.

The Pittsburgh-based tech company has soared above just music apps but also language learning such as English language and even calculations in Maths. This diversity of the company has helped it become an important revenue source in the app-developing sector.

One of the company’s apps is the online English learning app. On the app, users can take a Test certification exam. The exam assesses language competency and was created from a hackathon project in 2014. During the pandemic, the business released Duolingo ABC, a free software for children aged 3 to 6 that focuses on English literacy.

The Duolingo English Test is an English proficiency assessment used to evaluate a user’s ability to read, write, speak, and listen to English. As users progress through this computer-adaptive test, the question difficulty increases or decreases based on their answers to previous questions.

In addition to multiple-choice questions, a user answers open-ended questions to assess his or her spoken and written English skills. The computer grades all of the questions one answers. A user also has an opportunity to record a video interview and a writing sample on the app.

Many colleges and universities abroad require proof of English language skills for prospective international students. This test has become a popular alternative to the SAT, ACT, or TOEFL for this purpose.

In October 2022, Duolingo launched a Math app called “Duolingo Math”. It is the first subject expansion that Duolingo has made beyond its original roots of language learning and literacy. The app has options to choose between an elementary version or an adult version. There is also a Brain training exercise that is optimized for training mental math skills.