Duolingo: Language Lessons
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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 English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Italian, German 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.
Send any feedback to android@duolingo.com
Use Duolingo on the Web at https://www.duolingo.com
Privacy Policy: https://www.duolingo.com/privacy
Designed by language experts and loved by hundreds of millions of learners worldwide, Duolingo helps you prepare for real conversations in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Italian, German 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.
Send any feedback to android@duolingo.com
Use Duolingo on the Web at https://www.duolingo.com
Privacy Policy: https://www.duolingo.com/privacy
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- This app may share these data types with third partiesApp activity, App info and performance and Device or other IDs
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- Data is encrypted in transit
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Ratings and reviews
48.3M reviews
Lunae Strat
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16 September 2026
I don't feel like I'm learning the language I signed up for. There are no speaking exercises for Japanese. There is no explanation behind grammar rules, so I end up guessing based off prior correct answers and end up incorrect. The badges and leagues are supposed to be motivating, but they feel like an overwhelming challenge. So, instead of learning, I'm speeding through and trying not to break a streak or miss a badge. Also - music is broken. You sould be able to sing or play an instrument
127 people found this review helpful
Alex Beattie
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16 September 2026
keeping it at one star because even though I pay for a premium tier, the app continues to be poorly made and maintained. the "maintenance breaks" are ridiculous and interfere with progress, and they constantly change things just to make their lessons seem more relevant. plus the characters are very annoying and not at all conducive to learning. really needs improvement overall. also has grammatical issues which shouldn't exist. and the gamification of learning doesn't help with retention at all
74 people found this review helpful
Bucky
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17 September 2026
Used to love this app but will be cancelling my membership after it runs out. They seem to now be focused on making it addictive rather than actually help with learning. After each lesson you now have to click through a ridiculousl amount of different things (opening reward boxes and then getting cards/outfits etc) that become so repetitive and boring it makes me want to quit. I'm sure it might appeal to some people but it's completely ruined it for me.
47 people found this review helpful
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Our mascot owl, Duo, is trading in his usual diet of mice for bugs this week. Yup, we’re squashing those pesky bugs to make the experience better for all of you.
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About the developer
Duolingo, Inc.
android@duolingo.com
5900 Penn Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
United States
+1 412-567-6602
