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 and Music 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.

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 and Music 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

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Ratings and reviews

It's been a fun experience so far, there are a few aspects that drive my interest specifically; the leaderboard and "league promotion" platform is engaging and creates a bit of a competitive environment that aides in learning. Trying to get the high score for the week is a cheeky little way to keep people coming back. The lessons/mini games/varying challenges have been enjoyable as well. I also appreciate the addition of music/math to the course choices to supplement the language courses.

Payed version ≈ $100 per year. if you want to use the interactive video chat I.E. actually practicing speaking the language then that's an extra charge. The app fails at teaching grammar. You're just supposed to pick it up from the lessons but, Italian, for example, has 7 different versions of the definite article"the." Some explanation would be appropriate. typing out foreign phrases with your thumbs on your phone keyboard is torture. need to be able to convert typing exercises to speaking.

This app presents basic conversation via repetitive drills. They try to make it interesting with cartoon characters and competition. There doesn't seem to be any grammar instruction, so it's hard to generalize your knowledge to new vocabulary and new situations. But it's free, so if you don't have the money for a paid course, it's worth learning what you can from this app. Be prepared to spend almost half your time waiting for ads to end.