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

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 have been using this app(free version) for a few years. It was pretty good until the past few months, especially these last few weeks. I have noticed that this app has been robbing me of my time and my 2X/3X points. it would show it's been activated, but when I do my lesson it doesn't reflect 2X or 3X in my score.And my time runs out before it's supposed to. Very frustrating when I'm trying to compete in the leagues and climb the leader board. Correct hints are MISSING! Negative Five Stars 👎

Editing after the latest update. The Heart situation went from annoying to stupid. at least before I gained something from practicing, now the only options for earning hearts are ads or money. I'm giving them a chance to fix this, but for now, my 5 star rating has dropped. Do better. I love this app, yes, the hearts are a pain, but if you go practice old levels you get free ones. Think of it like a pop quiz. That being said, there's a glitch and my achievements are stuck... help?

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.