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Which apps have these 14 languages

One table instead of seven browser tabs: which of these fourteen languages each app has, and where there is nothing at all. Checked against the apps’ own catalogues — every row is one click from its source. The short answer: the big apps carry the big languages, the rare ten are carried by two, and two of the fourteen by none of the seven. For you the language of instruction is almost never the problem; the genre is.

Updated September 1, 2026 · Lingofly

Who carries which languages

Checked against the apps’ own lists; the dates and links are on the pages below. Nearly every course here runs from English, and “Eng.” marks the single exception — Duolingo teaches Catalan from Spanish only. Checked: September 18, 2026
LanguageDuolingoLingBusuuBabbeluTalkPimsleurDropsLingofly
Armenian—yes——yesyes—yes
Georgian—yes——yes——yes
Kazakh—yes——yes——yes
Serbian—yes——yes—yesyes
Slovenian—yes——yes——yes
Maldivian———————yes
Sinhala—yes——yes——yes
Tamil—yes——yes——yes
Greekyesyes——yesyesyesyes
Basque————yes—yesyes
CatalanEng.yes——yes—yesyes
Valencian———————yes
Turkishyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes
Spanishyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes

The number of languages says nothing on its own: one app has courses with grammar, another phrase sets, a third word cards. That is why each name below comes with its genre, not just a count.

The ten that decide it

The Russian version of this page has a second table here: how many of these courses are taught from Russian rather than from English. For you that table would say almost nothing — all but one of the courses in it run from English already. So the second cut is a different one, and it is the one that decides the choice: how many of the rare ten the app carries at all.

The rare ten are Armenian, Georgian, Kazakh, Serbian, Slovenian, Maldivian, Sinhala, Tamil, Basque and Valencian — the ones no more than three of the seven carry. “Genre” matters as much as the count: a set of recorded phrases and a course with grammar answer different questions.
AppOf our fourteenOf the rare tenGenre
Duolingo4nonea course with lessons, review and games
Ling117a course of themed, scenario-based lessons
Busuu2nonea CEFR-levelled course with exercises corrected by people
Babbel2nonea course of short lessons built around dialogues
uTalk128themed sets of words and phrases, all of them recorded
Pimsleur41an audio course in half-hour lessons, by ear
Drops62vocabulary cards with pictures, no grammar
Lingofly1410a course with the alphabet, words, a phrasebook and grammar

What follows from this. Two apps out of seven carry the rare languages — Ling with scenario lessons and uTalk with recorded phrase sets — and neither teaches the script from zero, explains grammar or gives you texts to read. Pimsleur adds Armenian by ear; Drops adds Serbian and Basque as vocabulary cards. Duolingo, Busuu and Babbel carry none of the ten at all. Maldivian and Valencian are in none of the seven.

Who is who

What follows from this

If you need Spanish, Turkish or Greek, the choice is wide and almost any app in the table will do its job. Our difference begins where the row goes empty.

Not one of the 7 has it: Maldivian and Valencian.

And here is an argument we make to you exactly once. The Russian version of this page turns on the language of explanation: a third of the courses in its table run only through English, a second unknown language between that reader and the first. You have one course like that, not a third of them — Duolingo’s Catalan, which exists only from Spanish. Everywhere else what is left is genre, the script, and which languages exist at all.

This table goes stale: other people’s catalogues change without warning. Each app’s page carries the date we checked it, and we revisit them regularly — if you find a discrepancy, write to us and we will fix it.

Frequently asked

Which app has Armenian?

Of the seven we checked: Ling (scenario lessons), uTalk (recorded phrase sets) and Pimsleur (an audio course by ear). Duolingo, Busuu, Babbel and Drops do not have Armenian at all. Here it is a full course: the alphabet with audio on every sign, words by topic, a phrasebook and grammar in plain words.

Is there a Duolingo equivalent for rare languages?

The closest by coverage are Ling and uTalk. But a full equivalent of Duolingo — a course with lessons, review and the script taught from zero — does not exist for Armenian, Georgian or Kazakh anywhere except here, and we would rather say that plainly than dress it up.

Which languages are missing from all of them?

Two: Dhivehi, the language of the Maldives, and Valencian. Neither is in any of the seven catalogues we checked — not Duolingo, not Ling, not uTalk with its hundred and sixty languages. Valencian is the subtler of the two: uTalk lists its name among the search synonyms of Catalan, so searching for it lands you on Catalan, and a course of its own exists nowhere. The links go to their own lists, so this takes a minute to verify.

Which app has Catalan?

Four of the seven: Ling, uTalk, Drops and Duolingo. But Duolingo teaches it from Spanish only — it is the single course in this whole table you cannot reach from English. Ling, uTalk and Drops are all in English. Valencian, the Valencian standard of the same language, has no course of its own in any of the seven.

Why so few “yes” marks for the rare languages?

A course in a rare language pays back worse: the audience is smaller and the work is the same. Big apps pick languages by market size, which is a rational decision — it just leaves unanswered everyone who has moved to Yerevan, Tbilisi or Astana.

How much can this data be trusted?

Every row was checked against the app’s own catalogue, the date is on its page and the link goes to the primary source. We are a party to this comparison, which is exactly why we do not ask you to take our word. And where a source would not open for us, we write nothing: Drops’ help centre returns 403, so there is not a line about its app interface languages anywhere here.

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