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

This is a complicated review... the app is great, and the progression through languages is awesome. However, monetization is very aggressive when you consider that their mission is to make learning a new language "free". You see, a lot of people, including myself, learn by making mistakes, but in the app, you can only make 5 mistakes in a row and then you have to "practice" (which is interesting but defeats the "progress is better than perfect" moto) or wait 15 hours (?!).

Points and double XP don't always add up correctly. It rewards you by saying you'll earn more the next 15 minutes and then doesn't always activate. I'm still learning the language. The concept, delivery and ability to keep progressing well on through the lessons for free is amazing! The handful of oops and glitches are worth it. The price of the plans are too expensive for me personally. Thanks for the alternate opportunity to learn with all the advertisements. Hopefully they contribute well.

I am almost done with the polish lessons again and there still doesn't seem to be 2000 words yet. Also the monthly challenges are broken and progress stops for seemingly no reason. I am certain that i have done double the quests required to complete the challenge. The app gets less stars if it does not work as intended. When it gets fixed i will update the review. My record of a perfect monthly streak is broken after almost 2 years. I'm still doing daily lessons. Please fix bugs first.