Duolingo: Language Lessons

Name: Duolingo: Language Lessons
Rating: 3.6 (284 reviews)
Author: Duolingo

Languages, Math, Music & Chess

Free · In‑App Purchases

284 Ratings
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4+
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Education
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Duolingo
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EN
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Learn a new language, chess & more 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 & writing to build your vocabulary & grammar skills. Designed by learning experts & loved by hundreds of millions worldwide, our lessons make learning effective & fun and help you prepare for real conversations in Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Italian, German, English and more. And now, you can learn CHESS on Duolingo! Whether you're a total beginner or looking to level up your game, you'll love learning chess the Duolingo way. Play matches and fun chess lessons for all levels, no matter the language - chess, ajedrez, xadrez, schach, Шахматы, الشطرنج. • Chess: Learn the moves, level up your game & play matches in our Chess course. Learn the basics, solve fun chess puzzles & improve your strategy with guided lessons. Whether you're new to chess or already play, our course is designed to help you have fun and build real skills. Checkmate! • Math: Forget lectures and math worksheets! Built by learning experts, our Math course makes math feel like a game. Boost learning and fight the summer slide with standards-aligned math lessons for elementary school, middle school, and high school students. • Music: Learn how to read music & play songs in our Music course, no instrument needed! Using an on-screen keyboard, you'll learn bit-by-bit. Whether you're learning a language for travel, school, career or your brain health, you'll love learning with Duolingo. Why Duolingo? • Duolingo is fun & effective. Game-like language lessons & fun characters help you build speaking, reading, listening, & writing skills, plus enjoy fun chess & competitive online chess in one app. • Duolingo works. Designed by learning experts, Duolingo has a science-based teaching methodology proven to foster long-term knowledge retention across language lessons & chess lessons alike. • Track your progress. Work toward your learning goals with playful rewards & achievements when you make practicing language lessons or chess online part of your daily habit. • Join millions of learners. Stay motivated with competitive Leaderboards as you learn languages & play chess online alongside our global community. • Every 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, & even High Valyrian! And now, learn Math, Music & improve your Chess skills with fun, bite-sized lessons. What the world is saying about Duolingo: "Far & away the best language-learning app." - The Wall Street Journal "This free app & 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 & fun." - Forbes "I Can't Stop Playing Duolingo Chess." - Wired If you like Duolingo, try Super Duolingo for 14 days free! Learn a language fast with no ads & get fun perks like Unlimited Energy & Monthly Streak Repair. If you choose to purchase Super Duolingo, payment will be charged to your Apple account, and your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to your settings in the App Store after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Privacy Policy: https://www.duolingo.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://www.duolingo.com/terms

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Ratings & Reviews

3.6

out of 5

284 Ratings

Editors’ Choice

With its friendly approach and awesome updates, Duolingo’s long been one of our favorite apps for learning another language. Its secret: making the process genuinely fun. Engaging mini-games test your reading, writing, and speaking skills, and joining a club (where you can encourage and compete with others) adds a great social element. Bonus: all those languages and games are available for free!

Editors’ Choice

With its friendly approach and awesome updates, Duolingo’s long been one of our favorite apps for learning another language. Its secret: making the process genuinely fun. Engaging mini-games test your reading, writing, and speaking skills, and joining a club (where you can encourage and compete with others) adds a great social element. Bonus: all those languages and games are available for free!
Mistakes in the Japanese language
08/03/2024
innocentoldguy
I like Duolingo. It is a good app and I have learned a lot from it. However, it's not a perfect app. Here are two things I think Duolingo could fix that would drastically improve it:1. Repetition is good and it is how we commit things to long-term memory. However, Duolingo seems to repeat information from the first few lessons FAR more often that it does later lessons. It would be great if we could tell Duoling to stop quizzing us on how to say, "I play basketball on weekends," for a few weeks if we already have that etched into our brains.2. Duolingo's Japanese lessons have mistakes in them. The most glaring one is with regards to the word "san," which is similar to Mr. or Ms. If the Japanese sentence has "san" in it, the English answer should always include Mr. or Ms. in the answer and if the English sentence has Mr. or Ms. in it, the Japanese should ALWAYS include "san." The opposite is also true, if the source language doesn't include these titles, neither should the answer. Duolingo screws this up all the time. My guess is that if Japanese has these types of errors, other languages do too.
Mistakes in the Japanese language
08/03/2024
innocentoldguy

I like Duolingo. It is a good app and I have learned a lot from it. However, it's not a perfect app. Here are two things I think Duolingo could fix that would drastically improve it:1. Repetition is good and it is how we commit things to long-term memory. However, Duolingo seems to repeat information from the first few lessons FAR more often that it does later lessons. It would be great if we could tell Duoling to stop quizzing us on how to say, "I play basketball on weekends," for a few weeks if we already have that etched into our brains.2. Duolingo's Japanese lessons have mistakes in them. The most glaring one is with regards to the word "san," which is similar to Mr. or Ms. If the Japanese sentence has "san" in it, the English answer should always include Mr. or Ms. in the answer and if the English sentence has Mr. or Ms. in it, the Japanese should ALWAYS include "san." The opposite is also true, if the source language doesn't include these titles, neither should the answer. Duolingo screws this up all the time. My guess is that if Japanese has these types of errors, other languages do too.
Barely functional on Mac
08/27/2024
Soren Victoria
Specifically on Mac: Window is not resizable aside from landscape/vertical orientation. Some text is bugged, like Japanese text with furigana on top for phonetics making kanji illegible. Performance is inconsistent and sometimes clicks do not register. At least the widget works? Just use the website, it's way better on Mac.Now about the Duolingo experience: There's no other way to put it, Duolingo has declined sharply and is a shell of its former self. You will see many people report that it is not good for learning a language because it does not explain anything, it only introduces words and grammar (and pronunciation, whenever that is correct anyway). The new AI voices are AWFUL and do not teach how to sound natural in any language. !!DO NOT LEARN ANY TONAL LANGUAGE LIKE CHINESE ON THIS APP!! Now that user comments are gone completely there is zero sense of community and no learned students there to help teach newer students about the language. This is how explanations were done in the past, by other users. I can attest these comments were the best and most useful part of Duolingo. Instead your only option now is AI in-app which is even pricier than the already useless Super subscription. What's the point? Well, it's still alright for introducing you to a language and its fundamentals, but that's it and other apps do that better too.
Barely functional on Mac
08/27/2024
Soren Victoria

Specifically on Mac: Window is not resizable aside from landscape/vertical orientation. Some text is bugged, like Japanese text with furigana on top for phonetics making kanji illegible. Performance is inconsistent and sometimes clicks do not register. At least the widget works? Just use the website, it's way better on Mac.Now about the Duolingo experience: There's no other way to put it, Duolingo has declined sharply and is a shell of its former self. You will see many people report that it is not good for learning a language because it does not explain anything, it only introduces words and grammar (and pronunciation, whenever that is correct anyway). The new AI voices are AWFUL and do not teach how to sound natural in any language. !!DO NOT LEARN ANY TONAL LANGUAGE LIKE CHINESE ON THIS APP!! Now that user comments are gone completely there is zero sense of community and no learned students there to help teach newer students about the language. This is how explanations were done in the past, by other users. I can attest these comments were the best and most useful part of Duolingo. Instead your only option now is AI in-app which is even pricier than the already useless Super subscription. What's the point? Well, it's still alright for introducing you to a language and its fundamentals, but that's it and other apps do that better too.
Fun but flawed instruction
05/29/2024
David Bivins
Duolingo is a lot of fun, but fundamental flaws keep it from helping me get any fluency in a language. Sometimes, submitting an answer in the target language gives you the meaning of the word. This is important when they're giving you words in, say, Japanese, where you haven't learned the word yet. But sometimes it doesn't, and you just know that you successfully sounded it out - no learning.The multiple choice style of instruction isn't enough to help you learn the vocabulary well. Too often, you can use a process of elimination to get the answer, rather than relying on memory.There's no way to go back to review a question you got wrong while you're in the lesson. You just have to hope that it shows up in the "mistakes" collection.The feedback mechanism is sloppy and shallow. There's no way for the developers to know what to fix if you have a problem other than something very basic. These are just a few of the fundamental flaws. The gaming/reward aspect of the app makes it addictive and fun, but ultimately the reward for all of your time on the app is getting on leaderboards more than any fluency.
Fun but flawed instruction
05/29/2024
David Bivins

Duolingo is a lot of fun, but fundamental flaws keep it from helping me get any fluency in a language. Sometimes, submitting an answer in the target language gives you the meaning of the word. This is important when they're giving you words in, say, Japanese, where you haven't learned the word yet. But sometimes it doesn't, and you just know that you successfully sounded it out - no learning.The multiple choice style of instruction isn't enough to help you learn the vocabulary well. Too often, you can use a process of elimination to get the answer, rather than relying on memory.There's no way to go back to review a question you got wrong while you're in the lesson. You just have to hope that it shows up in the "mistakes" collection.The feedback mechanism is sloppy and shallow. There's no way for the developers to know what to fix if you have a problem other than something very basic. These are just a few of the fundamental flaws. The gaming/reward aspect of the app makes it addictive and fun, but ultimately the reward for all of your time on the app is getting on leaderboards more than any fluency.

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Seller: Duolingo, Inc
Category: Education
Compatibility: Requires iOS 17.0 or later.

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