The Witcher is a massive IP spanning anime, books, comics, a series of games , and a television series on Netflix. The franchise’s lead, Geralt of Rivia, has journeyed far beyond the expectations that fantasy author Andrzej Sapkowski might’ve had when he published the first Witcher story back in 1990. Now, the series has even popped up on the language-learning app Duolingo. You read that right.
” “Duolingo is somewhat notorious for odd and funny sentences in our courses, but there’s real learning value behind them,” the spokesperson said. “And at times we’ve deliberately inserted anime, gaming, or other pop culture references into our content, to help connect language learning with people’s passions and interests.” The Duolingo spokesperson specified to Kotaku in an email that The Witcher reference was “inserted by one of the Finnish course contributors around 2019.