Learning English in English

[SommiehFlo]

Hi, I have some friends who would like to practice their English using Duolingo, but their native language, Urdu, is not listed. Is there a way they could access English as a native language to learn English?

[Lrtward]

Duolingo works on a translation model. Showing a sentence in English and asking them to translate into English won't work. Thomas.Heiss and MintIceCream9 had great suggestions. But English <-> English in Duolingo isn't an option :(

[SommiehFlo]

Thanks!

[JammyDodgie]

If they speak a different language, or vaguely understand it, they can put that they speak that language instead and find English. Hope this helped!
MintIceCream9 x

[piguy3]

Best guess here presumably Hindi? It and Urdu should be close enough to make this endeavor feasible if they're familiar with the script.

[SommiehFlo]

Thanks!

[Thomas.Heiss]

He could check-out Memrise, Mondly, uTalk.

[Jaw1605]

It's not as good as Duolingo but this may help them: https://www.50languages.com/phrasebook/ur/en/

(They have the option to choose British English or American English as well :D)

[Hermesianax]

They might try one of the many courses for English speakers, if they are interested in learning English while practising another language.

[AussieFruitNinja]

I learnt English in English (being from Australia), maybe this is the hard way to teach for someone has got a complex vocabulary in a different language, but I imagine that fluency would improve with constant thinking/operation in the one language.