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 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 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

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Ratings and reviews

I like that it's game-like, uses different voices, and uses different methods (fill in the blank, listen, speak, match pairs, etc). However, if I did not already have previous Spanish courses, I don't know that this method would be effective as it doesn't teach the basics, e.g., the difference between word endings like -o and -a, how to conjugate verbs, or that Spanish puts the adjective after the noun. It just expects you to use context clues. Otherwise, it's a good refresher and practice app.

I love the app, it has really come a long way compared to when I first used it back in 2020. The software's gotten a lot more smoother, and it makes learning languages a lot more fun! I've been learning French and German now and I'm really starting to comprehend both languages. I tested myself by listening to a French podcast and some French artists, and I can comprehend many words and sentences! I do, however, wish there were longer listening and transcription activities.

The pace of progression in the music course feels too fast, and hard to grasp. Maybe I'm just bad at this, but it feels hard to learn and progress at the app's pace. I have fun and feel like I can learn and review at my pace with Japanese, but find myself infinitely frustrated trying to keep up with the music lessons. I also don't understand why the dark theme is no longer an option. I know I can change my phone settings, but it seems silly not to have the option in the app.