Duolingo
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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.
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Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Proprietary
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Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Windows
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Excellent language learning tool.
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.
Primarily I use Duolingo for learning Scottish Gaelic and there are few alternatives for that. Some phases are not programmed in for voice recordings as it is a less popular language. However, the "come back everyday" method does work. I miss the old version where you had to go back and fix "broken eggs" in order to revise your learning, now with the stepping stones that has vanished and it is up to the user to go back to old lessons and do them again. They keep adding things other than language and the first of those I embraced was chess. I am now pretty good at chess and that is because of Duolingo. The math and music modules don't really do it for me, but then, I am an advanced musician. I do have a few other languages loaded in the back drawer (Spanish, Indonesian, Dutch... which I already had knowledge of, having lived in those places) but one needs to focus on one language at a time or you get confused. Therefore the chess is a welcome break from Gaelic. I use my laptop for Gaelic and the phone for chess, as chess is fiddly on the PC. On balance I do think Duolingo is a useful platform.
It's just completely useless. Why?
I loved this app a few years ago, but today it's unusable. Way too many advertisements and the new "Energy" system instead of hearts is horrible. Enshittification at it's finest.
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.