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

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've been enjoying it for the last several months for French, Italian, and Spanish and I'm getting more proficient in each. The phrases are terribly repetitive and I find you'd learn more by mixing them up a bit. The last week or so, the battery usage has been abysmal when the app is in use and makes my phone get very warm, unlike the previous months.

New updates causing glitch. It keeps turning spoken exercises back on even though it's supposed to be turned off for accessibility. (Yes, I did do it in settings, not just the 15 min snooze). Every time I go back to settings, it's turned back on. The spoken exercises never worked anyway. Guaranteed loss of a heart even for the most basic of words.

Duo feels very well thought out, I like the idea of needing to practice to gain more lives. There's a few faults however. The amount of ads can feel a bit overboard. I understand needing ads, duo is free. The app has a really hard time knowing what's a typo and what's intentional. I can right schöne, it's an obvious typo, and the app knows because it's a word I tend to get right. But I still get marked down for it. I live in constant fear of my keyboard making a single mistake, then losing.