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 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!

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 still don't like the learning paths. You have no choice in your lesson, and because there's no pictures like before, you can't easily decide to revisit an old topic. Apart from that, the app is definitely getting better. I very much like the update on learning kanji. Instead of endlessly drawing the same strikes, you have to read and recognize it in different contexts.

Having finished a course, and still doing 2 more I first have to commend the accessibility and fun interactive nature of this app. It's great for getting into a new language and I'm happy that it offers so much for free. Butttt, it's clear now (I had a suspicion for a while that Duo doesn't really go beyond B1 level) that it, in fact, doesn't go beyond B1 level. I have finished the Italian course, and now I only have daily practice of beginner level Italian. I wish it aimed for fluency instead.

The translations in Dutch are very sluggish and sometimes even wrong or never used in that way. It looks like the've used Google Translate to make these kind of sentences! If Duolingo wants to correct that, there should be a correction button' at all time and not only when you make a mistakes! For now, if you want to learn Dutch with Duolingo, be prepared for some laughs and corrections from Dutchmen!