Problems with mic in Duolingo

Weird one this. Mic works fine. I can use mic apps, and make calls etc, but for the past year Duolingo has started failing immediately when trying to use the mic. Reinstalls/permission changes don’t help.

If I set it to request permission it asks and then immediately fails when I give it permission.

It’s blatently a Duolingo issue, but it seems weird to only affect me and none of my other non fairphone using friends!