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Master Languages, Music and Maths

Duolingo’s quick lessons are a fast path to proficiency.

This app is available only on Mac with Apple silicon.

Duolingo makes learning feel less like studying and more like playing – and now it teaches more than languages! Master maths skills and reading music with the app’s signature quick, gamelike lessons.

What we love: The variety of ways Duolingo helps you understand a concept: visualise multiplication and division with blocks. Identify past-tense verbs in silly sentences. Or match musical notes on a piano keyboard. The app leverages machine learning to adapt its lessons to you; it can tell what you find challenging and evolve its curriculum accordingly.

Multiplication, melody or Mandarin – choose what you want to learn with quick, visual exercises.

In each daily lesson, you’ll practise reading, writing, speaking and listening. Illustrations help you identify and match words and phrases.

Duolingo leverages machine learning to personalise the lessons as you go. When the app sees that you’re stuck on past-tense verb conjugation, for example, it evolves its curriculum to match you.