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

Prior to the update of the user interface, it was a solid, enjoyable, easy to navigate, and clear app. Since the update was implemented where it is now like a road map, it turned to trash. You can repeat that same courses over and over to earn points (previously restricted to two times), it's not easy to locate specific topics, and it limits flexibility and individual preferences. As of the time of this review, I'm at a 700-day streak, but will look to cancel my subscription shortly.

I'm not a fan of the restructuring. I don't like the linear track. I was hoping that the subscription would improve my experience. It got rid of the ads, but that benefit is hardly worth the price. I like to have more control over my learning and the new version hinders that. I like to review old exercises regularly before I plow through new material. Please go back Duo! I've been with Duolingo for 3 years and it's been great, but not as much now.

Like others, I'm not a fan of the new format. It makes learning more frustrating because it makes it easier to fail. I've been stuck on levels forever, esp. because new words and concepts are introduce before I've mastered another. I feel like this new format is to encourage upgrading (money) over learning. Once I lose hearts, I can't even keep going. Sucks