Maps, maps everywhere!

[NicolaB]

[KoningJesper]

Blijft geweldig :

[Phoenyxar]

Ik ben het momenteel ook aan het ervaren!

Boston, 1775.

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Prachtig dat er een spelfout te vinden is hier.

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Ca. 878

[Dexist]

Een kaartje dat laat zien hoe uitgerekt alle gebieden aan de noord (en zuidpool) worden bij gebruik van de Mercator projectie. Elk vakje is hier even groot als Colorado.

Bewerkt: 4 mei 2016 door Dexist

[Phoenyxar]

Bevolkingsdichtheid in Kansas.

[Phoenyxar]

Meest populaire taal om te leren via Duolingo.

Waar Italiaans en Turks te vinden zijn is ons een vraagteken.

[NandroDavids]

Opvallend dat Zweden hun eigen taal nog eens extra willen leren.

[SpacyColours]

Volgens de site zelf;

Why is Swedish the top language in Sweden?

Duolingo’s Swedish course turns out to be the most popular in Sweden itself: 27% of all users in Sweden are learning Swedish.

Why would that be the case? Immigration to Sweden has been skyrocketing in recent years: one in six Swedish residents in 2015 was born outside of Sweden. The fastest growing foreign-born groups are from Syria and Afghanistan, reflecting a recent increase in the refugee population. Duolingo recently released a Swedish course for Arabic speakers, which will hopefully help!

But it’s not just Sweden. There are several other countries where immigrants are using Duolingo to learn the language of their new home.

In the United States, immigrants constitute 13.1% of the total population. But even more — over 20% of the population — speak a language other than English at home, and over 25 million people speak English less than “Very Well”. Perhaps not surprisingly, then, English is the second most popular language in the United States, attracting 21% of the country’s Duolingo users.

Another case is Norway, where Norwegian is the second most popular language (with 18% of all users). Similarly to Sweden, Norway has been recently accepting many migrants and refugees. According to the data from the beginning of the year, immigrants constitute 13.4% of the total population in Norway.

Nooit geweten trouwens, dat meer dan 20% van de bevolking in de VS thuis géén Engels spreekt.

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