Duolingo For Climbers

I’ve been working on learning Spanish on Duolingo for several years.  In the beginning I was learning very quickly, I was conjugating verbs, memorizing words, picking up different adjectives, and getting pretty good.  I was actively pursuing the streaks, and I would make sure to do the lessons every day.  Then I started to miss a few days, which turned into months, or maybe a year.  Then I get back into it, needing refreshers and reminders in order to remember words that were always just on the tip of my tongue.  Then another pause and then another fresh start.  The good news is that I am better at Spanish now than I was when I first started.  Duolingo is a useful tool for getting familiar with a new language. When it comes to my commitment though, the problem isn’t the app, the problem is me.  In the end though, me gusta Duolingo!

The Duolingo model has been popping up to help folks learn more than just language.  I’ve seen adds for apps that refer to themselves as ‘Duolingo for accounting’, ‘Duolingo for coding’, and ‘Duolingo for language’ (essentially knockoff Duolingo).  With all these apps, I thought I should try to get in on the fun, and introduce…

Duolingo for Climbing.

Duolingo for Climbing isn’t here to help you get better at climbing, there are plenty of other apps out there for that.  Duolingo for Climbing is to help you get better at speaking the language of climbing.

In just 5 minutes a day, you can learn to communicate with climbers as if Climbish was your first language.  We’ll start each lesson with different uses of the term ‘bro’.  In a matter of weeks, you’ll be able to tell the difference between up to twenty variations of this versatile one syllable word.  One of the most difficult parts of learning Climbish is recognizing the inconsequential variations of ‘bro’ and when to appropriately use each variation. Duolingo for Climbing has you covered!

In addition to ‘bro’ you can expect to learn all the jargon you can handle, everything from Red Point to Red Rocks, dihedrals to aretes, you’ll learn about grades, slopes, holds, and ways to motivate those around you!  Allez!  Most importantly you’ll learn when and where it is appropriate to swap beta, promote your podcast (theDIHEDRAL Podcast can be found on most streaming platforms), and so much more.  For example, climbing stories are highly appropriate at the crag, while those same stories are highly inappropriate at a funeral (unless it’s the funeral of a climber).  There is a lot of nuance when it comes to Climbish, and you can learn it all on the new Duolingo for Climbing!

This might be my best idea yet, although I did send JIF an email several years ago telling them that peanut butter should come in something like a toothpaste tube so that climbers can pack it easier and squish it directly into their mouths, and now JIF has just that, with no acknowledgement to yours truly, but I’m not bitter.  However, if JIF releases an app like Duolingo for Climbers I may get suspicious of how they are going about R&D.

Duolingo for Climbers –  Where Bros go for Beta!