Duolingo: Language Lessons

Name: Duolingo: Language Lessons
Rating: 4.7 (5224981 reviews)
Author: Duolingo

Languages, Math, Music & Chess

Free · In‑App Purchases

5.2M Ratings
Awards

Editors’ Choice

Apps
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Education
Developer

Duolingo
Language

EN
+ 30 More
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

Events

SPECIAL EVENT
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Ratings & Reviews

4.7

out of 5

5.2M Ratings

Editors’ Choice

With its friendly approach and awesome updates, Duolingo’s long been one of our favorite apps for learning another language. Its secret: making the process genuinely fun. Engaging mini-games test your reading, writing, and speaking skills, and joining a club (where you can encourage and compete with others) adds a great social element. Bonus: all those languages and games are available for free!

Editors’ Choice

With its friendly approach and awesome updates, Duolingo’s long been one of our favorite apps for learning another language. Its secret: making the process genuinely fun. Engaging mini-games test your reading, writing, and speaking skills, and joining a club (where you can encourage and compete with others) adds a great social element. Bonus: all those languages and games are available for free!
Very improved app! I’m extremely pleased!
May 23

openzzz122
Duolingo, this time has certainly outdone itself. Not only has Duolingo remained a free language learning app for all, but this time Duolingo has taken all of us back to basics to learn a language fluently! In my opinion, just like how we learned our first language through being thrown right into the mix Duolingo has done just that without the rules and guidelines I honestly can say I feel more comfortable now learning the language that I have before and this time I have started my whole entire profile over just to check and test myself as far as my memory reading and comprehension and speaking of Spanish! Throwing us right into the mix has been the best decision ever made to learn a language because now it’s up to the User either sync or swim it’s up to us to adapt and I think learning languages is one of the best things that we can do not only to be well-rounded, but also enable us to have more friends and be able to go on other places with ease. However, one suggestion that I would have is that maybe Duolingo with setting it up so that you could FaceTime on the app with people who speak the same language that you’re studying to give them more authentic feel and to become comfortable with speaking language or allow users of a given language to FaceTime a native speaker to test, reading comprehension and understanding and fluency of a language all in all they’ve done a great job and I am proud to be a part of the Duolingo family in 2026 ~Cedric
Very improved app! I’m extremely pleased!
May 23

openzzz122

Duolingo, this time has certainly outdone itself. Not only has Duolingo remained a free language learning app for all, but this time Duolingo has taken all of us back to basics to learn a language fluently! In my opinion, just like how we learned our first language through being thrown right into the mix Duolingo has done just that without the rules and guidelines I honestly can say I feel more comfortable now learning the language that I have before and this time I have started my whole entire profile over just to check and test myself as far as my memory reading and comprehension and speaking of Spanish! Throwing us right into the mix has been the best decision ever made to learn a language because now it’s up to the User either sync or swim it’s up to us to adapt and I think learning languages is one of the best things that we can do not only to be well-rounded, but also enable us to have more friends and be able to go on other places with ease. However, one suggestion that I would have is that maybe Duolingo with setting it up so that you could FaceTime on the app with people who speak the same language that you’re studying to give them more authentic feel and to become comfortable with speaking language or allow users of a given language to FaceTime a native speaker to test, reading comprehension and understanding and fluency of a language all in all they’ve done a great job and I am proud to be a part of the Duolingo family in 2026 ~Cedric
Great app!
05/24/2024

yhgchggchht
I wanted to download Duolingo because I am going to fly to Paris France soon, and of course I needed to learn some French to go there. so when I first downloaded it, I thought I would go straight away to French, but no they want to take interest of why you are learning the language. which is a feature that I really like, including the fact, you have a choice to take a quiz when you first download it and start learning your language. like for example they will ask you if you would like to start from the beginning or if you want to take quiz to see how much you know and get as far as you can. obviously, I just wanted to learn French because I was going to fly there and so I pressed start from the beginning. they also make the learning fun! They find cool ways to teach you things. Like for example I was having so much fun on Duolingo. I spent 15 minutes on there when I chose only five minutes a day. including the fact, I didn’t know that I knew all these French words for example I was just doing a lesson on Duolingo and these questions got popping up and I kept easily answering them not even knowing that I knew those words. that’s how Duolingo shows you that you made progress. I also like how there are different characters with different voices so you can understand other peoples voices and way of speaking and not just one person’s voice on Duolingo. now I am super pumped to go to Paris!! 😀😃😄😁😆🥹😅😂🤣🥲☺️😊😇🙂🙃😉😌😍🥰😘😗😙😚😋😛😝😜🤪🤓😎🤩🥳🙂‍↕️😏🙂‍↔️🤭🤗🥴
Great app!
05/24/2024

yhgchggchht

I wanted to download Duolingo because I am going to fly to Paris France soon, and of course I needed to learn some French to go there. so when I first downloaded it, I thought I would go straight away to French, but no they want to take interest of why you are learning the language. which is a feature that I really like, including the fact, you have a choice to take a quiz when you first download it and start learning your language. like for example they will ask you if you would like to start from the beginning or if you want to take quiz to see how much you know and get as far as you can. obviously, I just wanted to learn French because I was going to fly there and so I pressed start from the beginning. they also make the learning fun! They find cool ways to teach you things. Like for example I was having so much fun on Duolingo. I spent 15 minutes on there when I chose only five minutes a day. including the fact, I didn’t know that I knew all these French words for example I was just doing a lesson on Duolingo and these questions got popping up and I kept easily answering them not even knowing that I knew those words. that’s how Duolingo shows you that you made progress. I also like how there are different characters with different voices so you can understand other peoples voices and way of speaking and not just one person’s voice on Duolingo. now I am super pumped to go to Paris!! 😀😃😄😁😆🥹😅😂🤣🥲☺️😊😇🙂🙃😉😌😍🥰😘😗😙😚😋😛😝😜🤪🤓😎🤩🥳🙂‍↕️😏🙂‍↔️🤭🤗🥴
I don’t like it
03/03/2022

Project Makeover 200
Given that I am I a fluent English speaker and only speak one language, I wanted to use an app that was free and helpful for learning to speak and understand another language. Duolingo is a popular choice among language learners so I decided to give it a try. I used the app for about a month before deleting it. Learning to speak the language with this app is not only hard, but also ineffective in helping me understand the language. For example, I was learning hangeul and I was supposed to listen to a voice saying the word and click on the answer that correlates with that word. Except when I clicked on the answer that sounded like that word, I was wrong. How was I supposed to know which answer was right when they all sounded the same? Not to mention, the robot voice is really unhelpful when trying to pronounce the words. I can barely hear the distinct sound of the word. Another thing, when I was first learning, I was bombarded by words I never even learned and duolingo wanted me to identify what the words were. I’ve never even seen the word in my life and it expected me to know what it sounded like and looked like? Ridiculous. Also, I never received lessons on how to identify the difference between two words that look almost alike. They just left it up to me to figure it out myself. All in all, I won’t ever be choosing to use this app to learn a language. I even tried Spanish! Still didn’t learn anything useful or complete my goal of learning and speaking a language.
I don’t like it
03/03/2022

Project Makeover 200

Given that I am I a fluent English speaker and only speak one language, I wanted to use an app that was free and helpful for learning to speak and understand another language. Duolingo is a popular choice among language learners so I decided to give it a try. I used the app for about a month before deleting it. Learning to speak the language with this app is not only hard, but also ineffective in helping me understand the language. For example, I was learning hangeul and I was supposed to listen to a voice saying the word and click on the answer that correlates with that word. Except when I clicked on the answer that sounded like that word, I was wrong. How was I supposed to know which answer was right when they all sounded the same? Not to mention, the robot voice is really unhelpful when trying to pronounce the words. I can barely hear the distinct sound of the word. Another thing, when I was first learning, I was bombarded by words I never even learned and duolingo wanted me to identify what the words were. I’ve never even seen the word in my life and it expected me to know what it sounded like and looked like? Ridiculous. Also, I never received lessons on how to identify the difference between two words that look almost alike. They just left it up to me to figure it out myself. All in all, I won’t ever be choosing to use this app to learn a language. I even tried Spanish! Still didn’t learn anything useful or complete my goal of learning and speaking a language.

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Seller: Duolingo, Inc
Size: 504.3 MB
Category: Education
Compatibility: 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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