Apart from a grammar structure that lists nouns and verbs “backwards,” Japanese also includes three syllabaries-hiragana, katakana, and kanji-which learners must memorize in lieu of an alphabet.
The problem: Japanese is one of the most difficult languages for English speakers to learn. While both have worked on Duolingo courses in other languages, they’d always anticipated bringing their first language to English speakers through Duolingo. Shima was joined by Hagiwara, another native Japanese speaker. “Right after that, I got a note from a product manager to keep going.” “I spent the hackathon developing a prototype course,” he said. When Duolingo’s yearly hackathon came around, Shima realized he had nothing to lose. A Japanese native speaker, Shima had already helped develop Duolingo’s English for Japanese speakers course. However, its origin story begins with just one engineer, Hideki Shima.
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