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 learning 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, Music, and Chess the Duolingo way!
• Build real-world math skills – from calculating tips to identifying patterns – and sharpen your mental math in our Math course. Learn foundational topics like multiplication, fractions, geometry and more, and keep your brain sharp with more challenging exercises, games, and word problems.
• Learn how to read music and play popular songs on your device in our Music course – no piano or instrument required! Using an on-screen keyboard, you’ll learn bit-by-bit, from finding notes on the keyboard to playing your first song.
• Master moves, level up your game, and play real matches in our brand new Chess course. Checkmate!
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 millions of 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, Music, and Chess 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.
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Catz Roos
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October 13, 2024
Sure the app helps learn a new language, but if you're anything like me, it's not always great. Chasing Duo daily goals rather sets me back instead of helps. I get "Finish a unit" several days in a row and rush through units without learning, and get overwhelmed. With some "features" it seems they are only chasing user hours spent in the app, and not so much the value of learning. Room for improvement.
90 people found this review helpful
Leo Fiedler
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October 24, 2025
Getting increasingly difficult to use it as a non-super user (free). A few weeks ago it was still possible to replenish multiple hearts by doing special exercises. Then it got limited to one heart and now you have to either pay, get duolingo super or watch ads. It's quite unfortunate what the need to earn more and more money does to good things. Edit: Heart to energy system is disadvantageous for people making no mistakes. We still loose energy and can do less and less exercises. Greedy.
27 people found this review helpful
Dominik Stark
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October 24, 2025
These annoying notifications are really getting on my nerves. Yes, you can turn them off, but what I'm talking about here are these intrusive and/or whiny notifications. Plus, the constant changing of the app icon. And increasingly intrusive advertising, the worst of which is the repetitive self-promotion. It won't be long before I end my streak of over 1100 days. Edit: the energy system sucks. Just one more way to annoy people so that they either don't feel like it anymore or buy premium.
19 people found this review helpful
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Thanks for updating! This version includes: – Performance enhancements to support daily rituals – Visual adjustments to improve clarity of the path – Streak Society members now see more than before – Removed the bones. The bones were a distraction. The bones are gone now.
As always, consistency is key. Complete your lesson. Stay on the path. Do not look away.