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 500+ 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

Addictive, fun learning on a daily basis. It works well, too, as long as I also reflect a bit on the grammar. The repetition is clever, the stories are fun and the translations are never far away. Duolingo has easily become my defacto tool for learning a new language. I had to subtract one star, though, because I feel that they lean too hard on us learners to get us to pay extra for the gems that help you progress faster. The price, at least in DKK, seems unreasonably high.

I've been using Duolingo for years and it's great. Currently studying Japanese, and the app has completely changed the learning style to match the language differences. I've seen concerns, particularly around Japanese, that you can't learn Hiragana - you absolutely can: you can either independently study kanji separately, or the course drip-feeds it to you while you're picking up sentence structure and some basic vocab. This app is great, does everything I want it to.

It's cute and colorful but overstuffed and stubborn. You may eventually learn a language using Duolingo but it's more of a colorful game than an actual lesson. Learning by example is great but their stubborn refusal to explain even the simplest grammatical concept means it's going to take 10 times longer to learn than with an app that's focused on teaching instead of leaderboards and micro transactions. So if you want some casual fun, go ahead. If you need to learn a language look elsewhere.