by In this digital age, social media has become a valuable tool to learn and develop new skills. One of the skills that has been widely modernized is language learning, with various influencers, applications, and celebrities promoting it. Language learning can aid one’s professionalism and can be utilized uniquely depending on the social media platform.
Examples
-LinkedIn: This platform built for networking can highlight language abilities and leverage them with career goals.
-Twitter: Enables communities fluent in a language to interact with experts and broaden their familiarity with culture and “slang” terms.
-Instagram/ TikTok: Allows individuals to find community in the language they are learning and can help expand one’s fluency and expression in a language.
Building Your Profile
For one to professionally present themselves, they need to establish a profile that highlights their language learning skills developed within the Duolingo application. No matter the social media platform, one must appeal to what professionals are seeking. For example, this could include the level of proficiency or level achieved in the Duolingo app. Duolingo uses gamification, or in other words, making learning seem like a game, to be able to show users their progress and provide a scale of their proficiency. On a social media profile, one would include these statistics to demonstrate their skills and proficiency. While being bilingual is typically not a language requirement, it has become an extremely valuable skill if one can fluently speak different languages. Moreover, Duolingo, a language-learning application, has managed to leverage and build a social media presence to promote professionalism for its users. The following guide demonstrates how one can utilize skills earned through Duolingo to maximize their professional presence and performance.
- Platform Selection: Choosing the right social media platform to highlight your language skills is important. Some platforms may highlight and focus on language skills, while others may diminish them. Therefore, it is tremendously important to present yourself on the right social media platform to showcase your unique traits and skills, as described down below.
2. Content Updates: In order to demonstrate one’s commitment to learning a new language, one should post achievements, deals, or perks relating to their Duolingo experience.
-Comment, repost, and engage with Duolingo posts on their social media.
– Share progress and experience while participating in Duolingo
– Create content highlighting their experience and tips and tricks to the public explaining the fundamentals of the application and the strategies one can use to maximize their language learning experience.
3. Authenticity: To thrive as a professional, one must be authentic, and one has to show one’s true personality and interests. Duolingo is an application that has helped candidates stand out with companies that have been regarded as a high caliber and are utilized to test proficiency for job and university applications.
-One can share their interest and experience utilizing a language learning service on the previously mentioned social media platforms
– Demonstrate dedication to language learning, skill enhancement, and self- improvement
With the use of social media, the Duolingo platform has enabled users to enhance their developing their skills, such as young professionals and students in their language learning skills, expand their networks, and be able to develop a professional presence in different social platforms revolving around the concept of language learning. Leveraging a gamification system with social media use, Duolingo has managed to retain and attract new users at an astonishing rate. By demonstrating and enhancing these skills, Duolingo has been able to outshine competitors in the language learning industry.
Great guide on using Duolingo to boost professionalism on social media! I love how you emphasize the importance of authenticity and sharing progress
-Bella Oberlatz
Hi Caroline! I think you provide a great point on how to leverage one’s language-learning skills to promote themselves professionally through Duolingo. It’s interesting to learn about how this app can help someone maximize their professional presence and you provide great steps to do so. I particularly like how you emphasize the importance of authenticity in order to thrive in a professional setting. Great job!
Hey Caroline! This was super unique and interesting! Using Duolingo to promote your professionalism and showcase your skill set is a great way to stand out on professional social media like LinkedIn. I would love to see people start using Duolingo and use some of your ideas. Nice post!
Great post, Caroline! I love how you outlined specific ways to leverage Duolingo for professional growth on social media. The idea of sharing achievements and engaging with Duolingo’s content to build credibility is so smart.
I found this post extremely interesting! I would have never thought of Duolingo as a site to help make someone more professional, but because of your guide it makes total sense! Being a cultured multi-lingual person is obviously a very professional trait to have, and using Duolingo to learn and better yourself is such a smart way to become more professional.
Hello Caroline!
Your breakdown of how different platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram/TikTok can be utilized effectively really sheds some light onto our profession. Not that we have a bad rep but I know social media normally does and considering how much our job relies on media platforms, the comparison is not looking good. I loved your highlights on the importance of presenting language skills in a way that resonates with professional goals. The way you wrote it was as if you were also appealing to personal goals which was very helpful because I am a very personally (selfishly) motivated person so putting that into perspective of professional goals was absolutely perfect!