Duolingo: Language Lessons

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.7
23.5M reviews
500M+
Downloads
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.

Whether you’re learning a language 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 language experts, Duolingo has a science-based teaching methodology proven to foster long-term language retention.

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

• Join 300+ 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!

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 android@duolingo.com

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

Privacy Policy: https://www.duolingo.com/privacy
Updated on
Apr 29, 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
22.3M reviews
Mike Harrington
April 11, 2024
With every update, it seems like Duolingo is upping the ante in trying to force a switch to paid version. When you go back to try to complete legendary status on an old lesson, the questions are very odd and obscure. Also, there are nearly all "fill in the blank boxes" without any supplied words or options. It's getting very challenging to even get to the half-way point without running out of hearts. I didn't have this problem before recent changes.
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Arthur Thomas
April 19, 2024
it's very engaging and emerrsive. it keeps you hooked. it's fun to keep at it and earn your spot on top of the leaderboards. take your time and don't make mistakes, and the free version is fine. if you find the courses getting challenging, getting super duo lingo paid for the unlimited hearts/ unlimited mistakes is worth it if you plan on sticking with it. i recommend waiting until you're offered the trail. if you don't use duo lingo much during your trail, don't upgrade.
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Chris Vasquez
April 10, 2024
Great app for learning. I think the app does well to progress you, but it's also up to you to put in the work to actually learn, e.g. saying every sentence (or at least most of them) even if it doesn't require it, not hinting every word of you forget it, actually taking notes on hard phrases or at least screenshots and reviewing them later. Learning is hard and needs to be active, not passive, in order to truly comprehend the concept and phrases presented.
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