Duolingo: Language Lessons

Duolingo

Contains adsIn-app purchases

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

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.

Send any feedback to [e-mail]

Use Duolingo on the Web at https://www.duolingo.com

Privacy Policy: https://www.duolingo.com/privacy

Ratings and reviews

Some kind of competitive quiz mode against friends would be cool as well and further gamify it. 🙂 Timed challenges are often frustrating and even though it states "you'll have to restart level 2", you actually have to start over at 1. 😑 Update: Wow. Had 75% of the Spanish course and now I'm back at 66 of 220ish units?! Very frustrating! I have to agree with my fellow learners in the comments: this new linear layout doesn't cut it for me. 😕

"Get more with super annoying Duolingo." You used to show one ad per exercise, now it is at least two. You cannot do anything without paying and of course, people who have Super Duo always wins in leaderboard as it is easier for them to gain points. There are students who can barely afford food, why do you have to be so greedy that you increased number of ads from one to two per exercise? I am very close to deleting this app forever, such pain in the back and it is terrible. Too many ads.

I used it for years, endured a lot and now stopped using it Reasons: - useful basic words are taught very late (sometimes after many, many lessons/weeks) - very little explanations when to use what words in everyday situations - I don't like how the app causes stress, puts pressure on you by setting time limits, by rewarding you when you finish something quickly - very, very repetitive. It forces repititions on you whether you want them or not. I recommend Busuu instead.