Duolingo Roll

It’s a tech company tradition to announce faux products on April Fools Day. In 2018, Duolingo announced Brewolingo – a new craft beer brewery inspired by the results of a recent study.
 
This year, we wanted to outdo ourselves. We know that language learning is hard… so we made it soft. It’s time to turn your bathroom into a classroom with our latest innovation: Duolingo Roll – toilet paper that teaches you phrases in new languages.
 
Studies have found that the average person spends 14 minutes every day sitting on a toilet. Yet, our research shows that it only takes 5 minutes a day to learn a new language, so our learning scientists systematically engineered a new bottom-up approach to language acquisition. With Duolingo Roll, you can master essential Spanish phrases like, “Tengo esta cebolla y la voy a usar” (“I have this onion and I’m going to use it.”) Or career-defining Japanese ones like, “私の猫は弁護士です” (“My cat is a lawyer.”)
 
Duolingo Roll is available now for English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese speakers. Never miss a language lesson again, because nature is the best push notification.

Let’s roll.

Photo credit: Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam