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

I have been using Duolinguo for over two years now, and I still absolutely love it! I think the app is very cute, I especially like all the sound effects and the animations. Keep doing a great job Duolinguo, you make learning fun! I often think, "I have to play Duolinguo," rather than "I have to do it." And last but not least, it is completely free! The only "mandatory" ads are relatively short and unintrusive. Thank you, Duolinguo team. You're the best!

first off I'm on a 392 day streak so I've used it for a bit. two huge, major, gigantic problems. 1) in Japanese when you have to type out a word sometimes completely randomly it will tell you you're wrong. 2) requiring you to spend $30 so it can explain your mistakes is an absolute joke. how are you supposed to learn a language when it refuses to tell you why you mess up. it's not a good app and I will be looking for a replacement ASAP. 1/5 I hate this all with a burning passion

It has an amazing amount of languages to choose from. This is a good app to learn foreign languages by total immersion. I wish it would teach me the rules of the language instead of having me figure it out myself. EDIT: The new "energy" system is simply a new way to pressure you into clicking ads, it takes away all the fun of using the app and it's unfair to basically act as ransomware by stopping your nearly complete perfect lesson and forcing you to either lose your progress or watch ads. 🫩

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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