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

When I started using dulingo, i liked the simplicity of the layout of the screen, i was able to easily navigate my goals. And practice the needed repetition. Since the recent update. I find it very difficult to even navigate the lessons and completing the goals needed to complete each lesson. I hope they bring back the original layout rather than this complex layout.

I really don't like the new linear design. Sometimes I just want to do a story, other times I might want to do a bunch of lessons in a row - just let me choose for myself! Hints are nonexistent which is SUPER frustrating. How are you supposed to learn grammar with no upfront explanation? A tech issue: Sometimes the mic doesn't work unless you minimize the app first. This only happens with the large button with a picture of a mic on it, other voice buttons work fine.

I love DL, but it has issues. Too many to list, but I'll say a few. 1) "can't listen now" is too easy to click by mistake. Should be moved or need another tap to confirm. 2) I never want to "jump to the next level" and skip content. Need an option to disable this pop-up completely. 3) "Perfect!" at the end shouldn't cover/obscure the text. I like to read it back after I check my answer, but "Perfect!" gets in the way. 4) Sentence discussions desperately need to be re-opened. They help a ton.