Duolingo: Language Lessons

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4,7
29,1M reviews
500M+
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Editors' choice
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Learn a new language 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, and writing to build your vocabulary and grammar skills.

Designed by language experts and loved by hundreds of millions of learners worldwide, Duolingo helps you prepare for real conversations in Spanish, French, Chinese, Italian, German, English, and more.

And now, you can learn Math and Music the Duolingo way!

• Build real-world math skills – from calculating tips to identifying patterns – and sharpen your mental math in our Math course.

• Learn how to read music and play familiar songs on your device in our Music course – no instrument required.

Whether you’re learning for travel, school, career, family and friends, or your brain health, you’ll love learning with Duolingo.

Why Duolingo?

• Duolingo is fun and effective. Game-like lessons and fun characters help you build solid speaking, reading, listening, and writing skills.

• Duolingo works. Designed by learning experts, Duolingo has a science-based teaching methodology proven to foster long-term knowledge retention.

• Track your progress. Work toward your learning goals with playful rewards and achievements when you make practicing a daily habit!

• Join 500+ million learners. Stay motivated with competitive Leaderboards as you learn alongside our global community.

• Every language 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, and even High Valyrian! And now, learn Math and Music with our newest courses!

What the world is saying about Duolingo⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️:

Editor's Choice and "Best of the Best” —Google Play

“Far and away the best language-learning app.” —The Wall Street Journal

“This free app and 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 and fun…” — Forbes

If you like Duolingo, try Super Duolingo for 14 days free! Learn a language fast with no ads, and get fun perks like Unlimited Hearts and Monthly Streak Repair.

Send any feedback to [email protected]

Use Duolingo on the Web at https://www.duolingo.com

Privacy Policy: https://www.duolingo.com/privacy
Updated on
26 Nov 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
App activity, App info and performance and Device or other IDs
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 6 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted
Committed to follow the Play Families policy

Ratings and reviews

4,7
27,6M reviews
Kim Saunders
27 November 2024
I've used duolingo off and on since 2015, and recently got back into it in late 2024. I really enjoy the new competitions. I find it motivating to do more. It is hard to progress without having the subscription. It is pretty affordable, especially for a family. My kids are enjoying doing it leisurely. I'm really coupling it with other learning resources. Negative is that I can't figure out why my husband doesn't have the option to the weekly specific friend quest. We would be crushing it.
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Mary Thiry
27 November 2024
Like others have stated, since they took away practicing to earn your hearts back up to full capacity, it has become so frustrating to make any sort of progress anymore. Once you lose your hearts for the day you can earn a single one back by practicing, but go back to your regular lesson, make one mistake, and then it's right back to practicing. If they don't change it back to what it was soon, I will just have to erase my 9 year streak and find a different language learning app.
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Carissa Blanda
27 November 2024
I love Duolingo and I've been using it for years. I am now a Freshman in Highschool and taking a Spanish class, and it is my easiest class because I already know a lot! I love the newest course, piano, because I am already learning how to play songs and the different notes. But the piano course is actually why I give my 4 stars. In regular lessons, you are able to say you can't listen to the question and skip it for an alternative. That is not the case for piano. I wish that was a feature.
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