Duolingo: Language Lessons

Duolingo

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About this app

Learn a new language with the world’s most-downloaded education app! Duolingo is the fun, free app for learning 40+ languages through quick, bite-sized lessons. Practice speaking, reading, listening, and writing to build your vocabulary and grammar skills.

Designed by language experts and loved by hundreds of millions of learners worldwide, Duolingo helps you prepare for real conversations in Spanish, French, Chinese, Italian, German, English, and more.

And now, you can learn Math and Music the Duolingo way!

• Build real-world math skills – from calculating tips to identifying patterns – and sharpen your mental math in our Math course.

• Learn how to read music and play familiar songs on your device in our Music course – no instrument required.

Whether you’re learning for travel, school, career, family and friends, or your brain health, you’ll love learning with Duolingo.

Why Duolingo?

• Duolingo is fun and effective. Game-like lessons and fun characters help you build solid skills across language, math and music.

• Duolingo works. Designed by learning experts, Duolingo has a science-based teaching methodology proven to foster long-term knowledge retention.

• Track your progress. Work toward your learning goals with playful rewards and achievements when you make practicing a daily habit!

• Join 500+ million learners. Stay motivated with competitive Leaderboards as you learn alongside our global community.

• Every language course is free. Learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Turkish, Dutch, Irish, Danish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Esperanto, Polish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Hebrew, Welsh, Arabic, Latin, Hawaiian, Scottish Gaelic, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, English, and even High Valyrian! And now, learn Math and Music with our newest courses!

What the world is saying about Duolingo⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️:

Editor's Choice and "Best of the Best” —Google Play

“Far and away the best language-learning app.” —The Wall Street Journal

“This free app and website is among the most effective language-learning methods I’ve tried… lessons come in the form of brief challenges — speaking, translating, answering multiple-choice questions — that keep me coming back for more.” —The New York Times

“Duolingo may hold the secret to the future of education.” — TIME Magazine

“...Duolingo is cheerful, lighthearted and fun…” — Forbes

If you like Duolingo, try Super Duolingo for 14 days free! Learn a language fast with no ads, and get fun perks like Unlimited Hearts and Monthly Streak Repair.

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Ratings and reviews

The app functions just fine and is useful. I don't like a few of the exercises (mainly the radio call-in show and the "game" where you move the character), and the tones that the characters use is more distracting than helpful. The 1 star is because there are way too many ads. I get that the ads help fund, and I'm fine with those ads. The ones that are unnecessary are the self promo ads for the paid version and family version. Loud and long.

Missing some key features that'd take the learning experience to the next level. There's a vocabulary list but you can't do anything with it, you should be able to search through it with ease by typing, convert them into categorized lists, or even flashcards. The type of activities you do (at least for the first few levels) are not diverse enough and become boring. Depending on the language you study, they don't get you typing or speaking in the language till much later on which is half the fun.

It was great, if you have the free version you'd get ads which is understandable and necessary, but the app was almost the same as for someone who paid for Super. Now you started removing features, including the amazing Practice for hearts, great for doing lessons without fear for mistakes. I'm not on Super and now I'm restricting the lessons I do because I don't want to be perpetually without hearts and not be able to complete a lesson for running out, thanks to this purely business decision.