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

I've learned so much this past month! And it's a great way to utilize downtime! But my free trial just ran out meaning tons of adds, less room for mistakes, and less opportunities to practice without having to use (a lot of) gems. I get charging for it, but it's either $13 per month or 10 but you have to pay for a whole year in advance if I understand correctly. I would love to see a more affordable option! Or a monthly version of the family plan!! Love duo and don't want so many interruptions!

I bought the ad-free version to learn Irish. It annoys me that it doesn't explain any grammar; it only does words and phrases. In time, you do start to infer the way that some of the grammar works, but something more explicit would be better. The timed challenges are essentially impossible to complete in the time allotted. A lag between when words appear on the left and when their translation appears on the right induces mistakes. They seem designed to get you to buy the extra time.

honestly, despite the ads, this app is truly free. you can practice and get your hearts back. no other language app does that. if you like it and have friends that do it, think about upgrading to the family plan together. it's actually pretty affordable. i enjoy it a great deal. but I started off with the free edition. maybe you won't become fluent but it makes learning a language way less intimidating and casual. it's fun, addictive, and you don't ever have to feel bad about doing it for hours!