“Learning Mandarin out of spite? You’re not alone,” Duolingo joked on X. “We’ve seen a ~216% growth in new Chinese (Mandarin) learners in the US compared to this time last year.

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“Welcome, American friends to Xiaohongshu,” one Chinese user wrote in English on the platform, while another said that “[you] can learn real local Mandarin here instead of Duolingo”.