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

Amazing app, very affective. I just wish that you could continue to learn without 'hearts' so you don't have pressure to get it right without getting premium. Also, sometimes the "cheats" will give you the wrong answer. Finally, I don't like the new update with checkpoints and 51 units. I liked the different subjects and units based on skill level. The new units seem random and don't correlate. I don't know if my progress was truly save or not, because the set up is different.

I really liked being able to repeat favorite stories as well as repeat passed lessons that I still felt weak in (or because I had been absent for a time). The new structure doesn't allow for any of that now, at least for the free accounts. If we're able to repeat stories/lessons again without having to reset all the progress and my XP is again counted in team events, I'll update my rating. Still, I appreciate the ability to learn a language for free, thus the 2/5.

Pros: Languages get updated regularly, lessons are divided in a way that makes sense, and levels help introduce you to new vocabulary slowly. I love the animation, the humor, and the dark mode! Cons: It doesn't automatically scroll down to where you left off, which is a pain for long courses. There isn't a way to backtrack on a skill until you've completely mastered it. I'm halfway through learning numbers in Hawaiian and I want to redo level 1 but it wants me to move on to level 3 instead.

What's new

It’s a bird… it’s a plane… it’s… Super Duo! (Who is also a bird.)

We’re so excited to introduce Super Duolingo, a new look for Duolingo Plus. Good news: Duo looks beautiful (if we do say so ourselves). Better news: Super Duolingo still has all of your favorite premium perks, including:

-Unlimited Hearts
-Personalized Practice
-No ads

Best news: the price isn’t changing! So go try Super Duolingo, and let us know what you think!