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

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Ratings and reviews

You keep "updating courses" & "synching my progress," yet I'm coming across words I've never been taught, while simultaneously covering "new lessons" I covered over a year ago. Please stop trying to fix an app that wasn't broken. At this point, you're just making things significantly worse. The learning path you introduced a while back is terrible, because you learn the same concept all at once, instead of being able to do some of this, and of that and then go back and review. It's bad design.

It's great that this app is free and there are many strategies that they use to help you practice a lot. There are some mistakes in some of the answers to less popular languages, but it still a good tool to get the basics. It's annoying that they keep making changes without any notification. For example, they have just changed it that if you already have 15 minutes of double XP, meeting a challenge may reset that time instead of awarding gems.

All in all, it's a fun way to learn. Kinda annoyed that I got to the massive wall of learning the characters of Japanese and don't have more words to learn at the moment(without just skipping the characters). Wish it was more mixed in. Also, it feels like a bug that things like the xp boosts don't actually work for lessons with the characters.