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.

And now, you can learn Math and Music the Duolingo way!

• Build real-world math skills – from calculating tips to identifying patterns – and sharpen your mental math in our Math course.

• Learn how to read music and play familiar songs on your device in our Music course – no instrument required.

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 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! And now, learn Math and Music 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

Duolingo is good to use for learning new vocab and has lots of creative ways to help you in what you're learning. However, with recent changes, it is clear and obvious that they want people to buy Superduolingo. They took away one of main routes of reinforcement. That is being able to practice whenever you want. This would get your hearts (health) back. They took this option away and upped the time it took to normally regain hearts. One could argue that these changes do make it not free anymore.

This is a great app for what it is. The Algorithms make mistakes sometimes (incorrect pronunciation, translation, grammar, etc), but it's pretty good most of the time. Just take everything you learn and hear with a grain of salt, and you'll be fine. The best part is how engaging and motivating it is. There are many things I wish it did (that it doesn't), and not every language "course" is the same quality, but this a great compliment (but not replacement) for any language study or journey.

This app has undergone many changes in just the past couple of years. Once, it contained lessons, lectures, explanations of grammatical and syntactical structures, and comment threads for learners to "study together," to engage with each other to offer a hand where needed. It used to offer techniques to guide users away from making mistakes. The developers have removed those features, as well as the opportunity to practice. If you can't practice, you can't learn; I advise choosing another app.