Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Number of words in a Duolingo course

How many words are in a Duolingo course?

First, what counts as a word?
In the incubator, some lexemes are stored as "forms of a word". For example, if you have "forms of comer", and that includes como, comes, come, that counts as one (not three).

I will just copy what Duome says at the small "?" sign:

"¡Hola!
If you ever wondered what are duolingo lexemes: these are lexeme_ids from our extended profiles and they are actually neither lexemes nor words since they include all word forms and they also include combined lexemes such as "bonne nuit" in the French course, and there are a few duplicates as well, but the total number is consistent across all users having completed the same tree version and apart from lessons and skills it's the only countable number in your profile that can tell you a little bit more about your tree progress."


This can be important if you are aiming for the Scholar achievement, because some courses have more than 2000 words, some courses have less.

I got the data, except for the last column, from http://ardslot.com/duolingocrowns.html
Then I added the last column.

For the number of words, duome pages like https://duome.eu/en/es helped me.
Look at the "lexemes" column there.
This is easier to find, if that language has only one tree version available. For courses with multiple tree versions, I tried to find the newest one.

Crowns are calculated as 6 crowns/skill, so legendary crows are also counted. But the bonus skills do not count.

The following list is as of February 2, 2022.

There are 37 courses available from English, plus I added 2 courses from Hungarian.

LANGUAGEFROMCROWNSSKILLSLESSONSWords
Arabic (AR)     English 276462101481
Chinese (ZS)English 528882841932
Czech (CS)English 504844222362
Danish (DA)English 420703402341
Dutch (DN)English 7381235022933
Esperanto      (EO)English 414693642389
Finnish (FI)English 210351441007
French (FR)English 140624712066749
German (DE)English 10701788275534
Greek (EL)English (EN)6121024523218
Hawaiian       (HW)English 22838143799
Hebrew (HE)English 504844462833
High Valyrian (HV)English 22838135825
Hindi (HI)English 19232133656
Hungarian    (HU)English 468783192367
Indonesian      (ID)English 414693101882
Irish (GA)English 384642921711
Italian (IT)English 396664052784
Japanese (JA)English 10141697745027
Klingon (KL)English 372622381481
Korean (KO)English 390652581793
Latin (LA)English 1322281538
Navajo (NV)English 661128143
Norwegian   (NB)English 10321725903600
Polish (PL)English 402672981938
Portuguese   (PT)English 546914632919
Romanian    (RO)English 372622862405
Russian (RU)English 474793502279
Scottish Gaelic    (GD)English 6421074833525
Spanish (ES)English 152126811936447
Swahili (SW)English 390651951257
Swedish (SV)English 396663252361
Turkish (TR)English 402672001466
Ukranian (UK)English 306512091108
Vietnamese   (VI)    English 504843201661
Welsh (CY)English 7081184162366
Yiddish (YI)English 564943822297
English (EN)Hungarian (HU)330552851952
German (DE)Hungarian (HU)306512381631

FieryCat's word lists for all language courses 
https://liuch.github.io/duolingo_courses_overview/

https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/31074292
https://duolingo.hobune.stream/comment/31074292

daKanga's word lists for all language courses
https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/52540199
https://duolingo.hobune.stream/comment/52540199

See also this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/duolingo/comments/obtt2o/comparing_all_courses_for_english_speakers_with/


Update:
Haitian Creole:  216 crowns,  36 skills, 125 lessons, 728 "words"

The Haitian Creole course was released on 2022-02-22.  

my own post, archived:  https://duolingo.hobune.stream/comment/55659010

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