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 a 1,364-day streak. I just got switched from the heart to the energy system and it's awful: I can't even complete one "legendary" lesson without running out of energy, usually at the very last question (of course). Obviously a ploy to force learners to subscribe to the paid app. Every recent change has been for the worse (repetitive lessons, no explanations for mistakes, etc.). I was reluctant to let my streak go, but this does it.

I like this app. But I don't like it that it will lag big time when you are trying to do your music lessons on earbuds and it will stall and freeze, so it makes you miss XPs or the keys that you are trying to hit in time. Now, it seems to do OK without having the earbuds on. But on days that I want to use my earbuds, I hate to because it gives me problems, and I hate that. Other than that, I love the app and highly suggest it for learning math, music, or a language, and actually chess too!

I was always on the fence if I wanted to keep doing this game. While I was learning words and general sentence structure, I never felt confident actually speaking Spanish. now they changed the game. before you lost hearts if you get an answer wrong. now instead of hearts,energy which can be lost just for answering a question, you can run out of energy mid game even when answering correctly, causing you to pay in jewels to keep playing or exit out. this seems like a good time to find another app.

What’s new

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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