Duolingo
Duolingo offers a gamified platform to learn over 30 languages for free. Engage in reading, writing, speaking, and listening practice with intelligent chatbots. Join 300 million users and track progress with rewards. Optional Duolingo Plus removes ads and adds features.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Features
- Gamification
- Crowdsourced
- Reminders
- Translator
- Dark Mode
- Learn with Flashcards
- Multiple languages
Tags
- learn-portuguese
- learn-russian
- learn-polish
- language-courses
- learn-hungarian
- learn-korean
- learn-german
- learn-swedish
- learn-esperanto
- learn-italian
- learn-chinese
- learn-irish
- Learn Japanese
- learn-danish
- language-technology
- learn-swahili
- grammar-teaching
- learn-vietnamese
- vocabulary-builder
- learn-turkish
- learn-norwegian
- learn-spanish
- learn-ukrainian
- learn-romanian
- learn-greek
- learn-welsh
- learn-hebrew
- learn-french
- learn-dutch
- learn-english
Duolingo News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about Duolingo
Duolingo launches 148 new courses as it shifts to AI-first, replacing workers with AIDuolingo has announced a major shift to its bussines model to become an AI-first company, launching...
- Maoholguin published news article about Duolingo
Duolingo expands learning suite with music course for beginners on iOS appAs we reported a month ago, Duolingo has now introduced a music learning course to its iOS app, off...
- Maoholguin published news article about Duolingo
Duolingo will expand its learning suite with Music and Math lessons pretty soonDuolingo, the language learning app, has announced the upcoming launch of Duolingo Music, a possibl...
Recent activities
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What is Duolingo?
Join over 300 million learners on Duolingo, the most popular way to learn languages! It’s free, fun and effective. The secret? Duolingo feels like a game and makes sure you stay motivated.
Over 30 languages to choose from - all completely free!
• "Far and away the best language-learning app." — The Wall Street Journal
• "A single app for language skills, self-improvement and digital escape." - The New York Times
• "Duolingo may hold the secret to the future of education." — TIME Magazine
• "...Duolingo is cheerful, lighthearted and fun..." - Forbes
Duolingo is changing the way people learn languages using advanced technology to personalize every lesson for you. Practice reading, writing, speaking, listening and conversation with intelligent Chatbots. Track your progress, earn rewards, and join the world’s largest community of language learners.
We offer: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Irish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Turkish, Norwegian, Polish, Hebrew, Esperanto, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Welsh, Greek, Hungarian, Romanian, and Swahili. Oh, and English too.
While all learning content in Duolingo is free, we do offer Duolingo Plus which removes ads and provides other helpful features. If you choose to purchase Duolingo Plus, payment will be charged to your iTunes 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 iTunes 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.
If you don’t choose to purchase Duolingo Plus, you can simply continue using Duolingo for free. Current Duolingo Plus subscription price starts at $9.99 USD/month.
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Duolingo information
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Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
Subscription that costs $7 per month + free version with limited functionality.Rating
Average rating of 3.7Alternatives
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4 news article related to DuolingoSupported Languages
- English
- Arabic
- Czech
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Chinese
- Spanish
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
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- 4.73 avg rating
Comments and Reviews
The best platform for learning languages, which also serves to practice typing and spelling.
Offers to interact in forums and discussions, in addition to doing competitions by points with friends.
The free version has A LOT of ads. If you make 3 mistakes during a lesson, the lesson is failed and you have to watch more ads + take some mini-refresher course. The paid version removes all that, but at 120 per year, which is about as much as Rosetta Stone. They also just keep removing features: grammar hints are gone, discussions to ask for help are gone, feedback on phrases and lessons are gone, meetups are gone, etc.
At the time of writing, they are also reducing the flexibility of the app and forcing you to a "path" upgrade which means you can learn the language only in the way they deem it possible. Only the stage has a topic e.g "talk about your family and yourself". A stage has about 10 lessons, each is repeated about 5 times. The lessons have no description of what you're learning. Is it family? Yourself? Are you learning pronouns? Nothing.
It used to be a good app, but those days are gone.
It seems to get worse every update
OK for a free App, progress is pretty slow but I don't mind, however they are intent on making the Owl increasingly annoying.
If I do pay for an App it won't be this one.
It may be free, but it's far from professional. One may even suspect it's deliberately designed to waste valuable time. Perhaps a well advertised scam even?
Try learning Russian for example. The intro that throws you into a starting point seems to be professional - no faults there. And then you start your first lesson and get whacked by having the words in an incorrect order, although in many examples before the mistake, the site taught alternative ordering many times, and I know my input was correct too. Second day. I get whacked with multiple lies. Russian to English translation lacked a few word buttons. I didn't know what to do. After hitting 'Check' it told me to write broken English - a sentence which made no sense at all. You don't see such an error even on MMO servers where English is required but where mainly Asians play. I reported the mistake. If you do a mistake in your lesson, then at the end your errors will be presented to you again. There's no option for "excuse me, but this is bs, I want to skip this". This way they'll make you learn the incorrect way. So I tried inputting the way they wanted. One of the Russian word translations offered two different variants, which were basically the same and both English word buttons were present too. There was an example before which also suggested "using the other word is okay". I tried the other variant this time, and bam: incorrect...
They seem to lack language professionals there. Or the service is a deliberate joke, powered by aggressive advertising? I didn't check if other languages suffer too or is the service designed around languages of the west. Maybe others are okay.
There's no speech training, at the website at least, nor it has any proper writing lessons: either you click on word buttons or do it the very hard way.
I've used Duolingo for 1.5 years now (approaching a 500 day streak) and it's been a handy tool alongside language lessons. I'll admit I'm starting to get bored and I came here to look for something different...but that's a long time to be engaged with a language app!
They somehow manage to make Duolingo worse with each update…