This is a great app. I am trying out Max in German, and it would really help if the app gave suggestions on how to respond if you need it. Sometimes I forget how to start or end the sentence, forget a noun I want to use and could use a reminder, and sometimes it throws a verb at you that you didn’t learn yet. Example: Lily asked me where I was (I think, not even sure) and I ended up using the beginning part of her sentence and a word for dogs at the end of my sentence because it was the only word I could think of at the moment. Lily thankfully didn’t chastise me for my misunderstanding, but switched to asking me if I like dogs. I didn’t learn the verb for like yet, so I was completely lost on what she was saying. I didn’t know until I read the explanation at the end of the call (which was very helpful, btw). On the next call, she remembered that conversation and expanded on it so I was able to practice the using the verb “like” in my responses now that I knew what she was saying. At any rate, the video call could be improved by making some explanation/hint available if you need it. I don’t want it up front because that doesn’t help with ability to recall the info on your own. I also love that the widget feature gently reminds you every day with a little owl humor to practice and that has been EXTREMELY helpful for me when I have so many other notifications on my phone. Overall, this is a wonderful learning tool for a new language.

I have been using Duolingo consistently and quite intensely since January this year. I appreciate your work and it really works well. I recommend the app to anyone who wants to learn languages, but find it daunting. I’m a true fan. HOWEVER, at this point, I don’t like how the system is prompting me to do new lessons (like Daily Quests). I want Duolingo to have more options for reviewing and applying what I have learned so far, so I can have a stronger foundation before moving onto new knowledge. (I’m a paying customer. And I don’t like the AI video call.)I would like each unit to have more comprehensive summary of grammatical structures, rather than just 6 phrases that don’t even cover everything you learn in the unit. I find the app gives me confidence and familiarity when I have to speak to Koreans, but it still lacks clear structure for me to communicate fluently. My mind is filled with random phrases. I don’t know how to conjugate different verb tenses or the character that connects them. I know there must be a pattern, but there is no clear format for me to follow and apply so I can use them freely. It is important to practice intuitively and get familiarize with a language that Duolingo seems to be doing well, but it is EQUALLY important to have a clear sense of the grammatical structure. It should be included in the summary of each unit. After all, this is a learning app for adults, not young kids. We learn differently.

Duolingo is still a really good app to learn any language. I’m doing really well learning my language but sometimes they’re wrong like the symbols and everything. I’m not sure if this is in every language I’m only taking Japanese but the symbols are wrong. It’s telling me my answer is wrong every time I do the same question every day and it’s always wrong, there’s supposed to be this other thing I was supposed to, but that wasn’t an option to choose. That’s why I can’t do Duolingo lesson anymore and I only have a streak it is just so hard to use this app when they are like a lot of issues that are keeping me from moving onto the next level every time it’s the same questions over and over and over again sometimes there isn’t even an option and they’re saying the audio wrong. I just can’t get my legal straight back because of all these issues so if you could please see this review and fix it that would be super nice because I actually still want to learn Duolingo learn Japanese music and maybe math learning a different language would be good for one of my classes in school so I’m really hoping that you guys can fix this, but still if some other readers reading this lead this to the support team that’s gonna fix this, but if you are just the person who wants to download this app download it not really big but they’re stopping me from moving onto the next level so you should still download the app though download

There are many great things about Duolingo; like the content, graphics, language learning, the learning of math and music, duo super and max, characters, and more!There are things that I wish that would change. Number 1 homophones; when typing I find it hard to type different words spelling to the same sounds. Earlier when doing Duolingo they gave me a homophone, which knowing me I typed the wrong spelling, but typed another spelling of that word (which I can not remember or look at because of screen time). Just like me there are other people out there who have the same problem as me. Number 2 notifications; you’ve may have seen this problem before, but it’s true. I get constant notifications on when I should do Duolingo. It gets stressful having to know you have to do it, unless you have freeze streaks. So then I have to try and fit Duolingo on my schedule so I don’t lose my streak. Number 3 absents; sometimes I don’t have time to do Duo so I have to use freeze streaks, which to ME are hard to get. Some people are busy and have screen time like me, so it’s hard to be absent from Duolingo for a range of 2 days. Why not just let that person use how ever many freeze streaks they have whenever and not only for 2 days. All I am saying is please stretch the amount of days we can be absent. Also might I suggest a “report an issue” for stories to. That’s all I have to type about so far on Duolingo, so please take some time and read this review. Thank you

Duolingo is the best language learning app ever! Duolingo is better than some schools in my opinion, because Duolingo tells you what a word means, or teaching it to you, at other schools they just assume that you already know that language. Just one improvement that I would like to say is about Video Call on MAX, can you make the video call look like it's more... Fun! Some things you could is like where you can pick your character. For example, you don't have to call lily, you can call... Oscar, junior, lily again, even your friends, etc. Another thing you can add is two things, first thing: mute, second thing: challenge. That is, where you can challenge the Character/person in the language you're doing. Another thing I'd like is Half screen/watch, that is where you can call and present a lesson that you can work together on, or you do something and they do something at the same time, and you can help them, and they can help you! Second-to-Last thing I would like to say to add is Stickers, with stickers you can put something in that is language related. Last thing I want to be added is to take away "tap to speak" and make a button called "I'm speaking" where the person knows you're speaking and it's not a recording thing. Developers of Duolingo, Thank you for all you have done on Duolingo, please, please, please... can you add what I have said.

I like this app a lot. I liked it better with the community interaction because I learned and understood more by reviewing user interactions and conversations with more experienced users. Now there’s no where to go when I don’t understand certain things. I’m left in the dark without explanation by the app. Also, when I’ve addressed issues within the app, no one ever responds. Also, in reviewing privacy tracking policies of my installed apps and how they track across other apps and websites owned by other companies, and collected data linked to my identity, I was astonished to see how much tracking this app will do (some of which is acceptable, other of which is most certainly not acceptable): DATA USED TO TRACK ME: purchases, location, contact info, user content, identifiers, usage data, diagnostics, other data (what other data?). DATA LINKED TO ME: purchases, financial info, location, contact info, CONTACTS, user content (??? from where, notes or other apps???), search history, identifiers, usage data, diagnostics. That’s too much collection. I deleted the app and now only use via web browser, hoping for less intrusion. A privacy web browser tab may also reduce the intrusion. Again, I really do enjoy the program and the app is very nice and makes rewards dazzle more, but because of what I stated above I deleted the app and put the web page on my home screen, hoping it is not intrusive or as intrusive and prying into other apps’ data.

As usual, “upgrades” to computer products destroy functionality and make things progressively worse for the user. Latest update now has all lessons in sequence so that the learner has much less flexibility than before. Maybe its better if you are a school teacher trying to control what your students learn but I am nearly 60 and don’t need a nanny. The problems I wish they would have fixed include tiny pictures that I can see on my iPhone and occasional screens that don’t have enough room to see the text you are typing. They have fixed some of the regionalisms and no longer force me to use continental Spanish, for example. One continual annoyance with all academic language instruction is the insistence on “school grammar” instead of how people actually speak and write. Since I learned Spanish in an immersion program, I continually run into grammatical elements not actually used that I have to put in, like the “se” reflexive pronoun. Duolingo puts it in all the time, street Spanish leaves it out unless there is no other reference to the object.Since I still can’t type reliably on virtual keyboards, I rely heavily on voice recognition, which works poorly. Most of my mistakes are due to voice recognition errors and secondly word order. Decent voice recognition would be a real plus for me. In some cases, the voice recognition just pumps out complete absurdities that bear no resemblance to what I said, recently, “darmelo” became “Dave my load”.

It’s really good I mean everyone always saying good things about it which it’s really true. There’s not that many good apps that can teach you a different language and the teaching is really good. Also, it’s fun that I can actually, you know have friends on there and have a profile. And I love that like you can learn multiple languages and you can go as far as you can with the language and you can even learn English if your like Hispanic or from a different country and are visiting the USA. I also just love the people around it just encouraging you the entire way, which is really nice when you think about it because there’s not some actual people who will encourage you to keep learning a different language cause honestly people can be really hard on you when you’re trying to learn a different language like when they already know it and they are just like saying random stuff that you don’t even know and they’re like “what is that?” And then you’re like “I have no idea,” and then when you have no idea, they’re like “you should’ve known that.” But really they never even tell you anything and they just expect you to know it but sometimes that’s not the case and I’m not trying to be mean to any people who are genuinely, actually teaching them anyway enough of my babbling it’s really great and you should really get it and you can play it at any age and it’s really fun. Amazing love it.

I have used this app over ten years to help me learn Spanish. I have also expanded, recently, to include chess. I have not achieved fluency but I am slowly developing an ear for the language spoken at a variety of speeds and in a variety of voices. Gaming is a useful motivator at some stages of learning and for various users. I prefer to go slowly and listen until I can begin to hear an exercise as I might listen in a live conversation. It is adaptable to many motivations and learning styles. It is a very well thought out teaching and learning program. There are obviously some good professional language educators involved. I have been very impressed and I cannot think of a better way to start my day than a quick Spanish lesson. But then I am sucked in. If you are over 70 and would like to find a stimulating mental activity that not only provides a good exercise, but it also helps you to become able to communicate with your neighbors. Fluency? I’m not sure what it means but I do know that I am less overwhelmed by conversations in Spanish and I find that most native speakers are more than willing to slow down and be helpful . Now chess is another bonus. I have always wanted to be able to join my grandchildren in a game. I’ve only been at it about a week but I will soon achieve what I think will be true fluency in chess. I decided only a few years back to begin paying. I’m glad I did.

So I downloaded Duolingo to learn some Japanese and for the most part I did. I think my highest streak was around like 50 or so. But here’s the scary part. So after having the app for a while, I was getting a little bit annoyed of all of the CONSTANT notifications, so I went to the settings, and I turned off the notifications for Duolingo. After that I pretty much didn’t touch my phone for about 3 or 4 hours, and when I picked up my phone after that, I was shocked, because my phone was FLOODED with these weird notifications from Duolingo. There was about 80 notifications! I read a couple of them, and they were normal mainly asking about my streak, but then there were ones like, “Why’d you turn me off?” Which really freaked me out and made me a little paranoid. I used it for about 2 more weeks but then I lost my streak, and got a little mad and decided to delete it. When I went to delete it, I saw a message that said, “Deleting Duolingo? You can’t hide from Duo…” At this point, I was REALLY freaked out and didn’t want to be near my phone anymore. I don’t know if this was a hacker or some sort of weird troll, but this really freaked me out and I don’t think I’ll ever download it again. I made this 5 stars to let people know about my strange occurrences with this app. If you wanna learn another language, I would suggest this app, for various reasons, but stay safe on here.