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

Duolingo is a great app for learning a new language, every feature is basically available for free mostly. It is easy to follow and to progress. Although, there used to be stories that you can listen to and then check your understanding, I loved those the most but now they have disappeared and even if I click in my collection on stories, none show up, at least for korean. So if this is a glitch, which I hope it is, I would like to ask Duolingo team to clear it please. Thank you!

I can see why people like this app. It is playful, has a nice design, and works a lot with rewards. There are some things I think are worth improving. A grammar summary in the guidebook would be good instead of only having only key phrases. For me, it also has too much of a game character sometimes as I have the feeling it's a lot about getting badges, rewards, and XP. A setting with less of a game character would be nice. Let's see in some months how much it helps me to learn a language.

I am learning Japanese and there has only been one speaking exercise while been studying (3 years plus) I've had the free and paid for versions. The free version is heavy on the ads. The price isn't too expensive but other than going ad free I don't really use the additional features. I don't like you have to have 'friends' for quests. Years ago it was easier to select the words from the bank and drag them around. Now if you want to make a change, you have to return the words to word bank.