You decided to learn Georgian, you opened Duolingo, and you scrolled the language list looking for it. It is not there. You checked Memrise. Not there either. Babbel, Rosetta Stone, same answer. You started to wonder if you were missing something.
You are not. There is no Duolingo Georgian course, and there never has been. The major language-learning apps all skipped this language. That sounds like bad news when you are standing at the start of learning Georgian. It is actually the first useful thing to understand about how to do it.
Is Georgian on Duolingo?
No. Duolingo does not have a Georgian course. It is not in the app, it is not on the website, and there is no half-built beta or “coming soon” banner. If you searched the Duolingo course list and could not find Georgian, the list was right.
It is worth being precise, because the confusion is common. Duolingo teaches more than 40 languages, including small ones and invented ones. Irish is on Duolingo. High Valyrian, a language created for a television show, is on Duolingo. Georgian, spoken by roughly 4 million people and the official language of an entire country, is not. That gap surprises people, and it should.
The same is true of the other big names. Babbel has no Georgian. Rosetta Stone has no Georgian. Memrise carried some Georgian content years ago and then dropped the language. The household-name apps, as a group, passed on it.
Why Duolingo skipped Georgian
The reason is not that Georgian is too hard to teach. Duolingo teaches Hungarian, Finnish, Turkish, and Navajo, none of which are simple. A course can be built for a difficult language. The reason is demand.
Georgian has around 4 million native speakers, almost all of them in Georgia. By the math a large language app runs, that is a small market. A course is a real investment: native-speaker audio, a sentence database, years of maintenance and updates. The big platforms looked at the numbers and decided the audience did not justify the spend. It was a business call, made separately by several companies, and Georgian lost it each time.
So the absence is not random, and it is not temporary the way a “coming soon” is temporary. It is the predictable result of Georgian being a high-value language to a relatively small group of people. Which, if you are one of those people, is exactly the situation worth understanding.
The petitions and the empty course page
If you go looking, you will find the evidence of how much people have wanted this. There is a Change.org petition asking Duolingo to add Georgian. There is more than one. There are Facebook groups. There is even a duolingo.com/course/ga/en address, the URL a Georgian course would live at, sitting empty.
For years, volunteers asked to build a Georgian course themselves through Duolingo’s contributor program, the crowdsourced route that once produced many of the app’s smaller courses. Duolingo wound that program down in 2021 and moved course creation in-house. So even the community-build path, the one that might once have gotten Georgian onto the platform from the bottom up, is closed now. The demand has been loud for years. None of it has moved the needle, because the thing standing in the way was never a shortage of volunteers. It was the business case.
The takeaway is not to keep signing petitions. It is that waiting for Duolingo means waiting for something with no timeline and no real prospect. If you want to learn Georgian, the move is to start now, with a tool that already exists.
What to use to learn Georgian instead
Here is the honest framing. You do not need a 70-language platform to add Georgian as entry number 71. You need a course built for Georgian specifically.
That gap is the reason EasyGeorgian exists, and I can be specific about it because I lived it. When I decided to get serious about Georgian, I went looking for the modern, audio-first way in, the kind of course that already exists for Spanish or Russian. The big apps did not have Georgian. The “Georgian apps” that did exist were mostly word-and-translation lists with no real method behind them. That void is why we built EasyGeorgian.
EasyGeorgian is an app dedicated entirely to Georgian. Not Georgian as one option in a long menu, the whole product. It is built around an audio course, Speak Georgian in 50 Days, which is 50 lessons of structured audio with prompted speaking and built-in spaced repetition. There is a comprehensible-input podcast course for the stage after that, and a flashcard system of roughly 4,000 cards with audio and an image on every card. The first audio lesson is free, and so is a 56-minute video that gets you reading the Georgian alphabet.
In practice, day one of learning Georgian looks like this. You watch the alphabet video, which takes under an hour and gets you reading Mkhedruli well enough to sound out a street sign or a menu. The same evening, you start lesson one of the audio course. There is no long stretch of grinding charts before the real thing begins, which is the part most people bracing themselves for Georgian do not expect.
If you want the full picture of where to begin, our guide on how to learn Georgian lays out the sequence. If you would rather compare what is out there first, we wrote an honest roundup of the best apps to learn Georgian, and a separate piece on why most Anki Georgian decks hit a ceiling.
Would a Duolingo-style app even work for Georgian?
This is worth saying plainly, because the instinct after “Duolingo has no Georgian” is to hunt for the next gamified app that does.
A tap-the-translation app is good at one thing: keeping a streak alive. That is genuinely fun, and the daily-habit mechanic is real. But the format mostly trains you to recognize words on a screen. It does not train your ear to follow Georgian at conversational speed, and it does not train your mouth to produce it. Those two things are what actually make a speaker.
Georgian also has features that a multiple-choice tap does not serve well. The sounds include ejective consonants that an English ear cannot reliably tell apart at first, and they only settle in through listening and imitation. The grammar leans on case endings that make far more sense once you have heard the pattern many times than when you meet them cold as a quiz question. A format built for vocabulary recognition leaves the hardest and most important parts of Georgian untouched.
Georgian rewards a different approach. You learn it fastest by hearing it at a level you can mostly follow, and being pushed to say it back out loud. Word-tapping has a place as a warm-up or a streak-keeper. It is not the engine. So even in the version of the future where Duolingo adds Georgian next year, it would not be the tool I would hand a beginner. The best way to learn Georgian is audio-first, and that does not change based on which big app does or does not carry the language.
So, to close the loop: no, Georgian is not on Duolingo, and you are not missing a setting. The big apps passed on it. The good news is that the gap got filled by something built for the job. Georgian has a reputation as a hard language, and parts of it are, but the missing piece was never the difficulty. It was a decent tool. That part is solved, and the first lesson is free.
