Well, having finished the Duolingo English to Arabic course myself, I can say that this is

not particularly true with the Arabic course. Almost all your examples were from other
courses, courses that are independent and from which you learn different words and
sentences, depending on the language you learn. So the phrases shown on this video will
not be found for every single course, even less so in the Arabic one. Also, Duolingo is not
an app used for religious purposes, it is simply here to teach languages, it knows every
one is entitled to believe in what they what, and try not to mingle in such affairs. Arabic is
not Islam, and the contrary is also true. Using Duolingo will help you get some basics of
the language and can, which is the most useful tool for a complete beginner, help you
practice and master the alphabet. It doesn't seek to harm anyone, and rather see
languages as a living aspect of our modern time. Besides learning the language for a
non-muslim with the help of a muslim app can seem inadequate for this person's
learning, as they are not culturally getting much of it. Yet though, you still learn daily life
expressions such as ‫ إن شاء هللا‬or ‫ الحمد هلل‬to say a few basic ones.

I was really expecting the video to say something like the app is full of grammatical or
pronunciation errors....but a man doing housework?! What a terrible idea! On a more
serious note: I love your content on the Arabic 101 series, but I strongly disagree with lots
of this video. As an example: issue is taken with showing a man doing housework as
"promoting particular views of gender roles", but wouldn't presumably what you would
rather see - women portrayed as doing housework? - do exactly the same? That portrays
a particular, steretoypical view of gender roles. I'm not one for needless virtue signalling,
but that really is a contradiction. From the comments, I see I'm in a minority here, so I
guess the bottom line is: if you don't want your kids to think it is the case that there are in
fact men who do housework, or couples of the same sex, then don't use the app. But
they'll be missing out on a great learning tool, and will have a vocabulary unable to
acknowledge the fact of the matter that these things do exist. They cannot be erased out
of existence simply by refusing to teach a sentence like "his grandma has a girlfriend". or
whatever it is. Not teaching these sentences (which, btw, are entirely neutral - it does not
praise or disparage such matters - merely acknowledging existence is not an "agenda")
means not teaching the way the world is. And being unable to describe the way the world
is in your new language is a big disadvantage. Anyway, I am learning Arabic on your
channel, self-study, and yes, with Duo the owl. And I'm having a great time. I hope to learn
more from your language videos, inshallah, but I'll leave ones like this. ‫مع السالمة‬