Last year we introduced you to Sam, the friendly face we want learners to recognize and follow along through their language learning journey. They are presented as gender-neutral as possible and we include them in almost every side of every situation.
You’ll find Sam exploring a market in the Travel category, at the nail salon in the Wellness category, giving a presentation at Work, and about to propose in We’re Engaged. Putting Sam into the shoes of the person in any of these situations is our attempt to take the gender out of activities that previously have been strongly tied to traditionalist gender expressions.
This year we wanted you to say hello to more of the many faces that we have within Drops. They all have different backgrounds, occupations, hobbies, and each of them is also learning a language or two, too!
While Sam has always been known to the Drops team as ‘Sam’, these other people remain nameless, so this is where you come in! We would love you to help us name some of our beloved characters…
This character is a therapist by day and musician by night. In their spare time they love to play football and learn Italian.
This foodie and astrology-loving character is a full-time student. Even though they’re not learning languages at school, they love everything about the Arabic language and hope to keep learning until they’re fluent.
Have you ever heard of an arm-wrestling doctor? Now you have! When they’re not battling illnesses and opponents, this character loves to travel and learn Korean & Japanese.
Whether it’s a board game night with friends and family, simply puttering around their garden for hours on end, or simply learning a bit of Norwegian on Drops; this character loves to kick back and relax from their high demand job as an architect.
Sam is so much more to us than a cartoon character. They’re a representative of the inclusive content we want all of our learners to be able to relate to, and we hope these new characters can do just that, too!
Learn a new language and discover LGBTQ+ keywords in the Drops app, today!
Stephanie Dean is the Drops Social Media Manager, born and raised in Cymru (Wales). If she’s not creating content, she can probably be found scrolling through TikTok for hours on end…
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"Very engaging way of learning Yoruba in a stimulating way. Will be using to learn myself and to teach my child!"
"Amazing language learning tool. Excellent app for increasing vocabulary in your foreign language of choice. Useful for beginner, intermediate, and advanced learners. The repetition of the words makes them much easier to remember, and without the hassle of making your own flash cards. I have used Drops for two years now and have seen great results."
"Great little learning app! I've learned at least 5-10 new words in Spanish in my first 5 minutes. Easy to pick up and thorough."
"I have been desperate to find an app that really helps me learn Japanese and this is the best by far"
"I like that you can switch between different subjects and topics constantly and it’s really easy to learn a lot of vocabulary very quickly! This works perfect for me because I can learn a lot of words but then practice sentence structure with my grandmother whose from Croatia"
"Fantastic app great opportunity to learn languages on your spare time. Drops makes it easy to learn and retain words to formulate sentences."
"What an amazing app! I’ve tried several apps for language learning and I cannot recommend Drops enough. I don’t know how a short Drops session can teach me as much as 1 hour+ of focused use of other apps, it’s like magic."
"Love my fun language learning and practice with daily Drops sessions, and monthly Challenges to participate in, and quiz mode to test contextual learning - brilliant! So much thought, consideration and inclusivity has gone into the design and function of this app, I can't praise it highly enough."
"Definitely recommend! I'm using this to learn mandarin 10/10"
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