Duolingo: Language & Chess

Name: Duolingo: Language & Chess
Rating: 4.7 (943255 reviews)
Author: Duolingo

Learn Spanish, Maths & more

Free · In-App Purchases

943k Ratings
Awards

Editors’ Choice

Apps
Age Rating

4+
Years
Chart

No. 1
Education
Developer

Duolingo
Language

EN
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Size

504.3
MB

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

4.7

out of 5

943k Ratings

Editors’ Choice

One of our favourite apps for learning another language, the process is genuinely fun. What’s more, all those languages and games are available for free!
A Learning Resource, but must be one of many
12/01/2024
forefix
Duolingo’s gameification of learning a language makes it fun and easy to keep coming back. Drawing on similar techniques that addictive phone app games do to reward your neurotransmitters with dopamine, you’ll be more motivated to learn than by conventional methods. There are drawbacks, the system is not as robust as other learning methods but I would caution users that this should only be one weapon in your arsenal of language learning. Sometimes you may be struck by some of the bizarreness of sentences you are being taught but pay attention, there is more than. Words to a language - my expectation is these are examples from uncommon syntax or sentence structure being demonstrated, though this is never confirmed explicitly. Finally, Duolingo alone will help you towards some sort of proficiency, but if you are not cross-stitching your learning along your neuropathways by engaging with other learning methods, you may find it difficult to recall your Duolingo learning except when your mind is in Duolingo mode : basically your memory needs Duolingo to prompt it and recall. Books, audio learning, talking, these need to make up part of your learning too if your dream is proficiency. All in all Duolingo is pretty good though and will be of use to those prone to “binge learning” (of any skill) followed by periods of no learning to build routine, habit, and consistency more sitting down with text books on your own.
A Learning Resource, but must be one of many
12/01/2024
forefix

Duolingo’s gameification of learning a language makes it fun and easy to keep coming back. Drawing on similar techniques that addictive phone app games do to reward your neurotransmitters with dopamine, you’ll be more motivated to learn than by conventional methods. There are drawbacks, the system is not as robust as other learning methods but I would caution users that this should only be one weapon in your arsenal of language learning. Sometimes you may be struck by some of the bizarreness of sentences you are being taught but pay attention, there is more than. Words to a language - my expectation is these are examples from uncommon syntax or sentence structure being demonstrated, though this is never confirmed explicitly. Finally, Duolingo alone will help you towards some sort of proficiency, but if you are not cross-stitching your learning along your neuropathways by engaging with other learning methods, you may find it difficult to recall your Duolingo learning except when your mind is in Duolingo mode : basically your memory needs Duolingo to prompt it and recall. Books, audio learning, talking, these need to make up part of your learning too if your dream is proficiency. All in all Duolingo is pretty good though and will be of use to those prone to “binge learning” (of any skill) followed by periods of no learning to build routine, habit, and consistency more sitting down with text books on your own.
Green owl is after you
01/04/2024
Squirrelfriday
This is a good app to keep you going, as you can learn in small chunks when you get a moment. It has real speakers for the listening which is brilliant. It applies gaming techniques to language learning. Sometimes this is good, like seeing your progress, and different activities. Plus a bit of competition which can be motivational (you are in a ‘league’ and can see where you are in the table). You get double XP for 15 minutes often, which encourages you to do frequent chunks, which is good for learning. Some bits don’t quite work though. There is a ‘ramp up challenge’ which has good stuff for learning. But, as you get nothing if you don’t complete a section, if you are going for the points against the clock - which often you are - it steers you towards very repetitive, easy but higher value tasks. That particular challenge is also annoying because the actual challenge work, which is against the clock, is not even/increasingly hard (although the time is shorter). Some of them have a lot more typing in than others, and one mistake means you have to repeat what can be a long sentence. It’s frustrating. Minor gripe over payment that it advertised at £x a month, but then took the whole year off at once. It was probably in the small print but was not expecting that. I thought I would give it a go for a month and didn’t realise it would do that. As it turns out I will carry on for the year probably anyway. Overall good, though.
Green owl is after you
01/04/2024
Squirrelfriday

This is a good app to keep you going, as you can learn in small chunks when you get a moment. It has real speakers for the listening which is brilliant. It applies gaming techniques to language learning. Sometimes this is good, like seeing your progress, and different activities. Plus a bit of competition which can be motivational (you are in a ‘league’ and can see where you are in the table). You get double XP for 15 minutes often, which encourages you to do frequent chunks, which is good for learning. Some bits don’t quite work though. There is a ‘ramp up challenge’ which has good stuff for learning. But, as you get nothing if you don’t complete a section, if you are going for the points against the clock - which often you are - it steers you towards very repetitive, easy but higher value tasks. That particular challenge is also annoying because the actual challenge work, which is against the clock, is not even/increasingly hard (although the time is shorter). Some of them have a lot more typing in than others, and one mistake means you have to repeat what can be a long sentence. It’s frustrating. Minor gripe over payment that it advertised at £x a month, but then took the whole year off at once. It was probably in the small print but was not expecting that. I thought I would give it a go for a month and didn’t realise it would do that. As it turns out I will carry on for the year probably anyway. Overall good, though.
The Best Way To Learn A Language!
15/04/2025
owen preece
I am still in school, and enjoy every lesson that comes towards me. But, French always seems the toughest. It’s always a bummer when I hardly can keep up with it when I have a habit of getting distracted easily. One distraction and, you lose all your progress and don’t know anything. So, I came to download Duolingo. And honestly, it’s one of the best decisions of my life. I’m learning and keeping lots of French knowledge as I go! At the present moment I’m at a 56 day streak, and plan on growing it higher, as your given rewards for streak achievements (like getting a streak for a full 30 days/a month.)! Another reason I downloaded this is because I’m making a trip to Paris in a week’s time now. So, with the extra knowledge in the back of my mind, il be able to provide my family the ability for me to speak and order things for them. And yes, there is the occasional ad after every lesson but, even those are fun! The characters are amazing and, I’m still not tired of the ads! I hope this review comes in handy for any new downloaders, and while I haven’t gotten Super Duolingo or Duolingo Max, the perks seem good and are worth checking out! Thank you to all the Duolingo Staff for making this amazing app, and helping millions around the world improve their language learning journeys. (P.S. : It isn’t just French you can learn, you can learn, to my knowledge, pretty much every language!)
The Best Way To Learn A Language!
15/04/2025
owen preece

I am still in school, and enjoy every lesson that comes towards me. But, French always seems the toughest. It’s always a bummer when I hardly can keep up with it when I have a habit of getting distracted easily. One distraction and, you lose all your progress and don’t know anything. So, I came to download Duolingo. And honestly, it’s one of the best decisions of my life. I’m learning and keeping lots of French knowledge as I go! At the present moment I’m at a 56 day streak, and plan on growing it higher, as your given rewards for streak achievements (like getting a streak for a full 30 days/a month.)! Another reason I downloaded this is because I’m making a trip to Paris in a week’s time now. So, with the extra knowledge in the back of my mind, il be able to provide my family the ability for me to speak and order things for them. And yes, there is the occasional ad after every lesson but, even those are fun! The characters are amazing and, I’m still not tired of the ads! I hope this review comes in handy for any new downloaders, and while I haven’t gotten Super Duolingo or Duolingo Max, the perks seem good and are worth checking out! Thank you to all the Duolingo Staff for making this amazing app, and helping millions around the world improve their language learning journeys. (P.S. : It isn’t just French you can learn, you can learn, to my knowledge, pretty much every language!)

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Provider: Duolingo, Inc
Size: 504.3 MB
Category: Education
Compatibility: Requires iOS 17.0 or later.

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Requires iOS 17.0 or later.

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Languages: English and 30 more

English, Arabic, Bengali, Czech, Dutch, Filipino, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
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