Duolingo adds AI-powered chatbots to help you learn languages

Can bots make learning a new language easier? Duolingo is about to find out. The language learning startup updated its app Thursday with a new feature that uses chatbots to help its users practice conversations. The feature only works for Spanish, French and German for now but the company is planning on adding more languages soon. Start a conversation and the bot, which has a few different "personalities," will guide you through a text conversation around a particular subject.