In the beginning weeks of lockdown, digital editor Gabriel Granillo and editor in chief Marty Patail connected on Duolingo, a language learning app with millions of active users worldwide and notoriously naggy reminder notifications. Now they sit down to discuss their progress. Is the app truly useful? Is it possible to learn a language for 10 minutes a day without talking to anyone else? And, most crucially, can you connect with your own heritage through an app?