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

I love this app. It makes learning fun. However, it is a bit expensive for a premium account to learn as much as you want. It takes a long time to reload hearts on free if you do mess up. Yes, the premium is worth it if you can afford it. I loved the 2 weeks I got free. It ment alot that I could just hyperfixate on learning for awhile rather then maybe get 2-3 lessons done. It sucks having a limited income and then having the options to upgrade or education be hit by pay walls.

I like the variety in lessons even if most of the features are locked behind a pay wall it's still very engaging but there are so many ads now. There's an ad after every lesson then another ad for duo super which drives me nuts because it usually takes me less than two minutes to finish a lesson so if I want to do multiple to keep up in the leagues it's painfully boring.

Full of ads to the point it's hard to actually internalize any of what I'm trying to learn. - Plagued by a persistent issue in tapping to continue after skipping speech lessons, where it queues up the tap to immediately fail the next question. Frequently gives me contextless words that translate multiple different ways. - "Student" in the German course so far means one of three options with no way to distinguish which answer the app deems correct until you lose a heart.