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Duolingo: Language Lessons

Originator Duolingo
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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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Developer & User Discourse

prsddd • May 19, 2026 ★ 1
Every time I’ve installed the app I’ve become more appalled by the hyper capitalist nightmare that this app has become, but I have to say, the absolutely shameless GREED of new “energy” feature is BLOWING MY MIND. Absolutely embarrassing and shameful. Horrible. Deleted the app instantly.
Del the answer is 42 • May 19, 2026 ★ 1
I have nothing wrong with the style of the lessons, I do have some doubts about the usefulness in a real conversation; but the app is pushing hard to upsell to their paid version, and is really effective at paywalling. The free version won’t even let you get through 3 lessons in one day, amounting to less than 5 minutes of practice - the app’s minimum for daily sessions.
It’s Sarah #@ • May 19, 2026 ★ 5
Best app ever it’s so cute
Learning57 • May 19, 2026 ★ 1
I deleted this app after it canceled my 489 day streak. I found Babbel and I’m learning a lot more! I should have started there first.
Compugeek123455K • May 19, 2026 ★ 5
Meow ❤️meow
Cade Horta • May 19, 2026 ★ 4
I just got this app today and wanted to learn some German, which was pretty cool 😎, but the app keeps telling me to buy a free trial and then after the trial, pay, like, why do i have to pay for learning different languages even though that stuff is supposed to be free for everyone. I’d like something to change with that. Bitte und Danke ♥️. (Luv u too Duo)
Reynnnld • May 19, 2026 ★ 1
I got to introducing my self but you can’t do anything for the Japanese writing for nice to meet you and it needs to be fixed the only thing that does is there a 3 end pieces
Tommy Dubicki • May 19, 2026 ★ 5
Wonderful app, use the block your adds function to practice daily, that’s the key, always practice everyday even if it’s just for 5 minutes, this app truly will develop your speaking skills for another language as long as your practice for 5 to 10 minutes daily!
Evangelyne and Roziie • May 19, 2026 ★ 5
Yup! You guys heard the title! My username is RoziieJapanese, and my Japanese score is 3! Thanks! I have always wanted to learn Japanese!🇯🇵🌸 I am also Mexican :) 🇲🇽🌮🌯🫔🇪🇸
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Kasafarie • May 19, 2026 ★ 5
I love Duolingo! Its so easy to use and it makes me want to learn things. I want to get first place in these competitions so I try my besf to get a lot of XP. This is so fun tk use too!!!!!
KBHill • May 19, 2026 ★ 1
When I start a lesson BEFORE midnight, that should count as the day before. If I started after midnight then obviously that’s the next day. Too often I will FINISH right at 12 o’clock a.m. and they don’t credit me for the prior day. So then my streak is broken and I have to repair it by purchasing gems. This is a trash policy and one that may make me get rid of Duolingo.
Kid mole ester • May 19, 2026 ★ 1
Ts is like if aids and brain cancer had a baby and got it hooked on meth and ai brainrot
wandererestsdango • May 19, 2026 ★ 1
doesn't teach the differences between formal and casual in Japanese and probably other languages as well. It also barely teaches how to structure sentences or anything like that. This company been beginning to sellout to AI. One personal sidenote: The kidnapping joke is getting overused, so literally shut up.
Myss V • May 19, 2026 ★ 3
When making updates to lessons it would be nice to not only keep me at my current section but also if I’ve made legendary on every unit in previous sections, that needs to be maintained also. It’s frustrating when updates are done and to have to return to previous sections to redo legendary on most units. If some units have maintained the legendary status, why not keep it for all of them? It’s counter productive and keeps me from moving forward in lessons.
hcbdhdhd • May 19, 2026 ★ 3
I was about to fall asleep then I felt a spider on me and I had an hour to do duo
greendayguy806 • May 19, 2026 ★ 5
It’s fun and interactive.
Uoohcu y • May 19, 2026 ★ 5
So I got this a really long time ago, and I loved it so much you get to learn new things and I saw just Spanish. It’s French and so much more more. I have nothing to hate about this game. The only thing that is that I can’t keep up with it and I was being lazy so I ended up deleting it, but you should probably get it if you’re not a lazy chump like me.
Chloeflowers14 • May 19, 2026 ★ 5
My German has improved. Thanks and I hope you’re impressed of me, Duo Keyshauna Renee Lingo, since I have a 223 day streak.
2123JD • May 19, 2026 ★ 1
I remember 5 or so years ago I could log in to my free account and do as many lessons as I wanted. My ability to continue taking lessons was limited by how many I got wrong and it was just a couple of hours to wait for my hearts to refill so I could continue. I would only see non-intrusive, silent ads in between lessons. Now, I can only do 2 mini lessons before my “energy” runs out even if I was careful and got everything right. I might be able to learn a couple of words per energy cycle, but it takes a full 24 hours before the energy is restored. Not to mention between every lesson there are full audio ads with really cringy AI voice-overs. All of these “features” like chatting with an AI companion that have been added don’t justify how scummy this company has gotten with trying to make the free-use experience so miserable that people either leave or pony up for the “pro” or “premium” or whatever new paid option they’ve come up with. I remember when this app use to be a passion project and the developers actually cared about making learning a language accessible. I think I’ll just stick to my Anki cards from now on.
Railfan261boi • May 19, 2026 ★ 4
Plenty fun but a bit demanding to get back on the streak and either way I have to do a streak, but those days wouldn’t be available