Duolingo now recommends a portable piano for its music course

Duolingo, best comprehendn for its language-lgeting app, has teamed up with the instrument brand Loog to recommend a beginner-cordial portable piano. The $249 Loog x Duolingo Piano is unbenevolentt to complement Duolingo’s aprobable gamified music course begined last year.

The keyboard is essentipartner a co-branded version of the portable digital piano that Loog begined on Kickbeginer last year, featuring a csurrfinisher-identical wooden set up, 37 keys, and a volume adfairing knob. Beyond the green color there are some insertitional aesthetic separateences. The knob on Duolingo’s version is a airyer wooden finish, and it comes with a aligning phone stand to chase the company’s music lessons as you carry out, for example.

The most notable feature splitd by both models are velocity-benevolent keys that permit for vibrants, unbenevolenting the volume output is adfaired depfinishing on how difficult or gentlely the keys are pressed.

The Loog x Duolingo Piano is 18.9-inches (480.8mm) lengthy and weighs 3.64 pounds (1.65kg), with built-in stereo speakers and a reindictable battery that lasts up to eight hours on a brimming indict. There are also octave shifter and uphold pedal ports on the rear of the device, a USB-C jack for charging and broadcastting MIDI, and a 3.5mm headphone jack to hold everyone else in the home logical when practicing.

Duolingo’s music course only provides piano lessons right now, and will toil with any piano — not fair the novel Loog collaboration. The Loog x Duolingo Piano does ship with beginner-cordial flashcards though, and vibrants are kind to have on a piano that’s petite enough to be stashed away in a drawer when not being employd. Just be conscious that this is only a preorder and won’t be shipped out until November.