Duolingo offers to help Marianne Williamson learn Spanish for debate

Duolingo, a free language learning app, has offered to help 2020 presidential candidate Marianne Williamson learn Spanish in time for the second night of Democratic debates after the hopeful made a quip on Twitter about candidates speaking Spanish on the debate stage.

Williamson took to Twitter on Wednesday and stressed about learning Spanish before her debate appearance Thursday after seeing several White House contenders speaking the language during night one.

I need to learn Spanish by tomorrow night at 9.

— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) June 26, 2019 

The app’s official Twitter feed waved at the best-selling author in response.

— Duolingo (@duolingo) June 26, 2019

Entrepreneur Andrew Yang, another 2020 Democrat who will be onstage with Williamson on Thursday, also showed concern about his skills.{mosads}

“My Spanish is terrible,” he admitted on Twitter.

My Spanish is terrible.

— Andrew Yang (@AndrewYang) June 26, 2019

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) was the first candidate to break out his Spanish during the first debate, which garnered a look from Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) that went viral. 

Booker acknowledged after the debate that “there’s a lot of bilingual people, some even trilingual, in this race.”