This is your sign to sharpen your English grammar through this language app!

Wherever you go in the Philippines, you can expect that most Filipinos know how to speak and understand the basic English language. Even in international beauty pageants, the Philippine representative is one of the few Asian countries who can answer directly in English during the question and answer portion.

Knowing how to speak and write in English is a skill Filipinos can all take advantage of. With this in mind, Duolingo, one of the world's most downloaded educational apps, launches an English course that caters to native Tagalog speakers!

Duolingo's "English for the Tagalog Speakers Course" aims to make learning basic English fun and easy. It includes words and situations that will be useful for the learner. It also has interesting vocabularies such as expressions of hunger, emotions, and activities popular in the Philippines, making up for good basic conversational English.

According to Duolingo marketing director Haina Xiang, "currently, 20% of Filipinos on Duolingo are learning Japanese, 19% are learning Korean, and 16% are learning Spanish."

"We are amazed by the Filipinos' diversity of learning passion. We want to share the fun and make language learning more accessible for Filipinos," Xiang added during Duolingo's English for the Tagalog Speaker's Course's launch in the Philippines on Tuesday, March 15.

The course's creation actually stems from Duolingo's founder story. Duolingo CEO and founder Luis von Ahn was born in Guatemala. He realized that education sometimes brought inequality across socio-economic classes. People who have money can buy themselves the best education in the world while those who don't have enough money barely learn how to read and write. Realizing language is essential for personal growth and career development, Luis created Duolingo and aimed to make it universally accessible. Now Duolingo is used by people across all economic spectrums.

Similarly, not every Filipino family is lucky enough to get well educated. With the English for the Tagalog Speakers Course, Duolingo expands its mission to the Philippines in providing free and accessible education to everyone in the world.

Aside from English, Duolingo offers over 100 courses across 41 distinct languages, from Spanish, French, German, and Japanese to Navajo and Yiddish. – RC, GMA News