Duolingo: Language Lessons

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.7
24.4M reviews
500M+
Downloads
Editors' Choice
Content rating
Everyone
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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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Updated on
May 14, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
App activity, App info and performance, and Device or other IDs
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 6 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted
Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

Ratings and reviews

4.7
23.1M reviews
A P
May 17, 2024
It's definitely helping me learn some. The game-y setup definitely encourages you to keep going. I like the free trials that come up. I don't like that some browser version features are missing: you can't drag and drop the words individually, you have to remove every word before it, and miss the alternative answers that show up. And I wish there were verb tables. I don't like the sentences that don't get translated at all, just told right or wrong. Miss the forum explanations for wrong answers.
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Imani Glasco
May 18, 2024
Great as review or a refresher but not useful for actually teaching your chosen language comprehensively. The app does not do a good job of teaching the rules and structure of a language. It's strong point is definitely it's ability to help review in various ways. I like that you can practice speaking as well as spelling and writing. It's like half of a language class. Also the friend quests and the timed matching competition suck. There is never enough time. You almost always need to get more
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Natasha Gibson
May 18, 2024
Helpful to learn a language. The app design is like a game and encourages continuous learning. Interactive and engaging. Downside is the app seems to lag at times and the speaking part seems to overwhelm the system at times. A word or phrase may count as incorrect and later correct despite no changes in my pronunciation. The only way to pass certain speaking parts is to speak unnaturally slow and over-enunciated. Still a great app overall.
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