Duolingo - Language Lessons Ratings and Reviews

Duolingo is very helpful to start a new language. It’s gamification makes learning more fun and makes me want to do my Duolingo every day. Streaks are also something I love and makes me want to get long streaks. Currently I have over a 600 day streak and have finished one course which is Arabic. One thing about some of the courses is that they don’t have much of a course. Some are short and some are way longer. Arabic was a decent course, but it wasn’t as long as French which I’m doing now. I’d recommend the Super plan, and if you have others in your family who can do Duolingo, you can get the Family Plan. The free version is good, but you have a limited amount of mistakes and if you run out of lives, you have to pay or wait. With the Super Plan, there are unlimited hearts. Super also has a practice area to help with revision. But that’s just some of what Super can do. You can probably find all the benefits on a Duolingo page online. The French course I’ve been taking has also helped with French class at school, and vice versa. Duolingo also has a thing called Leagues. Leagues are good in the beginning as a healthy competition, but higher up, it makes people do all the easy lessons, which doesn’t help with learning. So if you want you can turn Leagues off in the setting tab. Overall, I’d highly recommend this app to get and the Super plan too.

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”.

I have been using Duolingo for 255 days, and have been quite pleased. As a tool for learning words and phrases and being constantly refreshed, it is first rate. There are details about the language, like endings for adjectives, which depends on a number of different features, which there is no real explanation about someone either has to go to a grammar workbook or just hope to pick the rules up by context; perhaps some people can do that, but I , who studied German years ago, can’t. Also, it is I think very weak on conversation. But it shouldn’t be a surprise since there’s nobody on the other end to be talking to.
HOWEVER news is coming out that there is going to be a change,, and that there will be two rather than one paid levels. The thing is, the main advantage of the paid level is that your session is not closed down for the day after you make a small number of errors. You really can’t learn anything if you’re not allowed to make errors after all. The news that I’m hearing is that the paid level that I am now subscribed to is going to lose the right to make unlimited errors every day. That’s gonna make the whole product, useless to me, because really most learning happens through making errors. So you should keep this in mind when you start this thing out that getting from the free version to a useful version is very likely going to cost even more than it does now.

If you are just starting out on a language this is the app. You learn words effectively and it is very good at encouraging to learn. The unfortunate thing was it got very repetitive and takes some time to get through to learn new words. It was very good when I first started learning Norwegian or Norsk Bokmål. I got the basics but really just basics. Duolingo won’t make you fluent but it is a great starting place and language practice tool to have when first encountering a new language. Don’t expect yourself to learn an entire language with Duolingo alone but it is great when wanting to practice the language you are learning or getting a few new words. Once again, it doesn’t feel like you are making super fast progress or you have grown quickly but I always enjoying going on and practicing. Another problem is that I never really understood why something was some way and Duolingo did not really do a good job explaining the reasons behind something so I was left confused. The good thing is these questions can be answered on the forum that Duolingo provides. Also the pronunciation does not appear to be given. All you could do was hear the word but I could never tell if the letter “d” was pronounced at the end of some words or not. I had to learn this outside of Duolingo. To conclude this is SPECTACULAR language learning app and I recommend it for all who want to try a new language.

The app is good. I’m already at my super Duolingo and I have absolutely no problems for notifications and I’ve never even updated it before so I don’t know what it’s gonna be like also i’m learning Spanish, German, Music but the widgets know most of them are fine, except for three of them, the one that says “don’t let it break!” that’s what it’s starting to threaten me, and then next it says “last chance!” and then the widget changes, and it still mad, and then still says “last chance!” so I can definitely tell that it’s trying to threaten me Oh wait! I forgot that there’s more that bother me for an example like the early widget one it’s staring into my soul with the streaks in both of his eyes also, the one that says “unfreeze your streak” I know it looks normal, but there’s something off about it that bothers me but I’ll find out eventually also, there’s one that said “it’s late!” like seriously what the heck is that widget there’s also one that falling into a Duolingo head like bro is falling in there own head and there’s also one that whenever you finish your lesson the widget will sing and it looks like there say this Duolingo: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and there’s also one that makes it look like Duolingo is having a wedding with someone sometimes it says “time to practice!” and sometimes it says, “Duolingo misses you” there’s also one that was doing it being a school and by the way, the one I was talking about earlier nvm

I have been impressed with how much I can learn, even without grammar explanations. The sentences (with translations) build up and if you go in order you can learn a lot. I came in knowing quite a bit of vocabulary but little grammar, so had to go back to earlier lessons and catch up, but it was possible and Duolingo is quite strict!
I really like the way the content is specific to the language. I am learning Danish and it includes Danish cultural and geographic detail. This is not a cookie-cutter program teaching the same content for each language. (I wasn’t however thrilled with the lessons on boy/girlfriends moving in together, etc. Despite the initial email that “my child” was using the app.)
Some of the English translations are a bit forced, but I have decided it is a useful feature, as that reinforces the grammar differences and is needed for translating exactly what the app wants into the target language. I supplement the app with reading/listening to materials without translation, as you can only get so far with translating, but you can learn a lot with words in context, and that is a huge benefit to the approach here. Other programs drill you on individual vocabulary words building up to a sentence. Duolingo gives you sentences with popup translations that let you learn how the word is used at the same time. Much faster. And much more variety. I am always surprised by new variations I haven’t heard before. Quite realistic!

5 stars for visibility. 3 star app.
duolingo is pretty ok for being free. the japanese course is missing some things, like speaking exercises and stories. i'd also like to be able to practice kana and kanji without having it go through a randomizer first. why can't i choose what i want to practice when i've finished all the practices to fill up the bar?
none of those things are integral to the learning experience, but it's a real shame how far japanese is behind the other courses i've tried before (spanish, swedish, german). my actual least favorite part of duolingo is the mean messages i receive almost every day from the girl with purple hair. i think they're trying to write a tsundere, but instead she's just a huge jerk. her "motivational" message today is "it'd be a bummer to lose that streak. just saying." which is such a rude and unnecessary thing to say. she's shaming me for not finishing my daily lesson before 8AM (yes, i get these messages before 8AM daily). i wish i could just get messages from the other characters, the little boy and girl, the older characters, and the bear all send perfectly fine messages. i'm just really getting sick of having to put up with passive aggressive "encouragement" from the developers at duolingo in order to get my daily lesson reminders. please, i don't want to put up with that purple haired jerk anymore.

This is some reasons i gave this app 4 stars only. I did not want to put 5 because of some stuff so let me tell you. This app is so amazing i would download it if i were you but, i am trying to learn french because of friends.. but it does not really teach me french language. All it kinda wants me to do is pick the right french word or, something else like that. It doesn’t seam to make me remember all the words. So i give this app a 4. No hate to this app because they are trying there BEST to help people learn new languages! Its really a great app but also, it wants you to pay a lot for a month I’m pretty sure to get no ads and level up quicker. Almost every app has a monthly subscription witch is kinda unfair. People are losing there jobs during this moment of Covid-19 so they won’t be able to pay that much for a month or however much it costs. I would say who would want to level up fast? It would not be fun because its going fast and you really learn anything and, its kinda cheating as what i think. The no ads.. well thats kinda “OK” but i don’t know about it.. the ads are kinda great although, they are about the Duolingo subscriptions. The ads are actually short though so i would not mind the ads because i don’t want to pay a monthly subscription. So i give this a 4 i guess but it’s actually good app and i think you should download it if you like! There is so many amazing languages out there on Duolingo. Thanks for reading my review! - Customer <3

I have to say that Duolingo has taken me to a new world of languages. I can spend my whole days practicing with Duo and increase my ability of using languages. However, there're still things that I'm not satisfied with this version for IOS:
- the discussions after answers: I've wait for them since a long long time ago. I believe that Duolingo is not only a software for learning languages, but also a special environment for everyone to enhance their skills together. Using Duo on IOS is quite convenient, but if I want to check my answer with the other's, I have to login my account again on the version for web browser, go to that skill, do it and seek for the question. That's not good at all!
- The report: Nothing happens when I press the button to report the errors (most of them are translation errors). My and other's reports are the very efficient tools to help Duo better, and we want to see that in the near future.
- The club should be added to web version and the currency systems - gems - needs need to be synced. Anyway, the life point is awesome, but we want more games, or tournaments, or challenges, or... something like that, just to increase the competitiveness between leaners.
I know that to solve with the problems I've listed above will take a lot of time and money and labor power, but we can believe with our effort and strength, the future of Duolingo is brighter than ever! Duolingo is the sweet home for everyone!

Hello to my reader,

I love duo always have but there’s some things I don’t like about it. For example:I have to keep my streak going that’s supposed to make the game more fun and Encourage the player to play daily, but sometimes I’m a bit more busy than most days and am unable to participate in my daily game. Which I know there is streak freezes but alas they are limited to how much you earn by playing, playing is extremely fun and it takes only 1-2 minutes of your time to play and learn. That’s super enjoyable for people like me who don’t have that much time to play, and I love that you can start a family plan, and add some friends and or family to learn and do daily activities, Overall Duolingo is an awesome experience for all ages. Which is nice but I wish that maybe you can pick exactly what you want to learn, or let them have some mini games that have different categories from the language your learning, I’m also aware that you can learn multiple languages at a time, and I’d love to learn Spanish and Arabic at the same time. But I’m not completely sure how to operate that soo, I’d also like to suggest a tutorial when you first start and if you forgot when your in the app and past the instructions. Overall this app is one of the best to learn from if you want to learn with ur family and friends, or maybe you’d like to by yourself, ether way this app is amazing and I love it.

Deepest regards: Duolingo user1