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I am a learning Korean on Aoki with a private tutor for fun as has a hobby. I've been learning Scottish Gaelic for a year through Juulingo.

It started off as a way to try and understand the Gaelic in Outlander and it then turned into a daily habit.

I'm currently learning Spanish on my phone. It's quite fun and I'm on day 267 now.

The reason I'm doing this is so that I can then go on to learn Arabic.

Are you trying to learn a language online at the moment, on your laptop, tablet or mobile phone?

Do you make time every day to do a lesson? Millions of us around the world do it. It's a trend that has slowly grown thanks to the digital revolution we've all lived through, but really accelerated

during the lockdowns of COVID when we were stuck indoors looking for something to do.

The biggest challenge of learning a language online is that there's only so much exposure you can get to the language.

And the main challenge has been getting that consistency, forcing myself to do it every day.

And I think the app kind of hold you accountable. It gives me a notification saying you haven't done it today.

The lack of face-to-face learning means I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing words correctly.

A host of language learning platforms and apps have sprouted up to meet this passion for language learning.

Duolingo is a very well-known one, which offers short lessons presented as fun games with cartoon characters, and it's free to the majority of its users.

There's also Rosetta Stone, Langotalk, Mondley, and countless more.

For Business Daily Meets today, I've organized to catch up in London with the CEO of Babel.

All of our learners that we were speaking to had a Skype teacher on the side, or were

watching YouTube videos on the side, or were listening to podcasts on the side.

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