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.

Whether you’re learning a language 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 speaking, reading, listening, and writing skills.

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

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

• Join 300+ 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!

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

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Ratings and reviews

Can't customize learning style. When I make a mistake, it forces you to wait until the end to correct the mistake. I learn best to correct it immediately and waiting until the end results in me learning slower due to certain personal learning complications. Giving an option on how to handle mistakes would elevate my rating. Otherwise, learning quality is 1 stars. I also don't like that it measures your streak on the time you finished and not the time you started that lesson.

There are a few little bugs. 1) Frequently, it will pre-populate the answer bland, thus answering the questions for you, rather than allowing you to answer. -- Annoying, but harmless, I guess. 2) The app doesn't seem to be completely compatible with the phone screen. For example, when questions are in chart format, you can only answer the top two. the next line falls below the bottom of the chart window and cannot be accessed. At that point, you just have to skip that level. You'll never g

I really like the app to review my French and to add to my vocabulary. The graphics are great. I would like to test out before moving on to the next lessons, but I'm not sure if that is possible. Also, the questions which contain bubble answers do not work on my phone (Android). The bubbles only rarely come up. As a result I cannot proceed to the next lesson. My app is now working great. Can the developers please put the Duo icon back to its original face??