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

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

By and large a good background app to learn a new language, but I do have several quality issues: The timed challenges are very annoying, especially the match madness. Beyond level 5 or so, it's no longer an exercise of skill, but literally reaction time. This is especially annoying when it's one of the day's quests, which it almost always is. About the quests, the most recent update requires completion of 100 quests to get the month's badge, 3 quests a day. Mathematically impossible.

My only gripe is that it breaks the emersion a little bit and you can't look at wrong answers. Otherwise, perfect. Edit: the new heart system really negatively impacts how much progress you can make if you occasionally make small errors. Some days you can spend half an hour banging things our or 4 minutes not being able to make an ounce of progress. And the ads at the end have become quite intrusive and long. The app I feel used to be better. They've recently taken a turn for the worse.

I can hardly get through one or two levels and the app stops working. When you want to select words, they flash red and won't let you select anything, and you can't go further. I keep force-stopping the app, clearing the cache, but the last day and a half i just can't proceed. I'm going to lose my streak which is disappointing. Also, i have paid the annual fee. Please can you assist!