Language learning platform Duolingo has added Hindi to its platform, which will let its users learn English through Hindi. It has also launched ‘exclusive features’ for Hindi and customisations like reduced size of the app, removing the need to type in Hindi, improving placement test and customised content. Looks like the company has been working on adding Hindi for over a year now and also had a Hindi team for the same. The company's press statement mentions that it has launched a new Hindi app, but readers would like to know that this is not the case: the app has been updated to support Hindi on both Android and iOS. In April 2014, the company added support for Hindi, Japanese and Chinese to help Indians, the Japanese and Chinese who didn’t know English to learn foreign languages. We'd pointed out then that although the interface changed to Hindi after selecting that language, the bulk of the UI was in English. It also needed a Hindi keyboard. As of now, Hindi is the only Indian language the app offers to teach English to, with plans to launch in other Indian languages (no timeline mentioned). On the other hand English speakers have the biggest variety of languages to choose from: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Irish, Danish, Swedish, Turkish, Esperanto, Norwegian, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and Welsh. In a press statement, the founder of Duolingo, Luis von Ahn stated, “In developing markets like India, learning English is crucial to people's professional development and can double or triple…
