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 learning 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, Music, and Chess the Duolingo way!

• Build real-world math skills – from calculating tips to identifying patterns – and sharpen your mental math in our Math course. Learn foundational topics like multiplication, fractions, geometry and more, and keep your brain sharp with more challenging exercises, games, and word problems.

• Learn how to read music and play popular songs on your device in our Music course – no piano or instrument required! Using an on-screen keyboard, you’ll learn bit-by-bit, from finding notes on the keyboard to playing your first song.

• Master moves, level up your game, and play real matches in our brand new Chess course. Checkmate!

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 speaking, reading, listening, and writing skills.

• 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 millions of 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, Music, and Chess 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

As long as I get energy back from watching ads but am not bombarded with other ads, I think the free version remains worthwhile. Sometimes I am getting bombarded with ads with no energy return, and that isn't nearly as good a user experience. Still wish we had discussion boards back, those were as valuable as the lessons themselves. I'd probably pay if those were part of the premium version.

Gets worse and worse, saying this is free is false advertising. I have been with the app for 5+ years, and now the "charges" instead of hearts are terrible. Doesn't matter if you make no mistakes you still have to watch ads or you will run out of "charges". You used to be able to just practice for hearts. Then it was ads, for hearts. Now it's these "charges" that run out after 1 lesson if you don't watch adds. Will be looking into other free language apps now. Been going downhill for awhile.

I like the app overall, but the new energy system is weak. you run out of energy even while being correct. I can't study as much as I could with the heart system. and now the whiteout survival ad doesn't have any way to close it at all, you have to quit the app and reopen it. destroying the app like crazy this month. dropping my rating to 2 stars. now another ad can't close no matter what. I guess I can't rate any lower than 1 star. my next step is uninstall and try airlearn.

What’s new

Our mascot owl, Duo, is trading in his usual diet of mice for bugs this week. Yup, we’re squashing those pesky bugs to make the experience better for all of you.

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