Duolingo: Language Lessons

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.7
22.7M 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
Mar 18, 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
21.5M reviews
Kevin D
March 17, 2024
I've been using this app for a few years (Super Duo family plan) and overall it's a great way to learn. My only complaint is that in recent months, I've noticed that the daily quests screen is slow to update. I've almost lost my streak when a quick peek at that screen shows I've already gotten 30 XP that day, only for it to suddenly change to 0 XP several seconds later, right before my eyes - because it was initially showing yesterday's info. Sometimes I can't tell if I've done a lesson or not.
24 people found this review helpful
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Lizzie Artstuffs
March 17, 2024
I've been using Duolingo for a few years now, and while I'm not fluent in conversation, I'm able to read my chosen language fairly well. I can also understand a large part of what people at the supermarket are saying in passing, which I think is a pretty strong point in the favor of this app. The hearts system will forever annoy me, because the app was honestly better without it. But I do like the changes they made to the Chinese course where you can learn pinyin and hanzi, that was much needed!
10 people found this review helpful
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Kir * (DragonSnail46)
March 14, 2024
It's very good but there are just a few frustrating aspects. If I skip or add a word on accident but I know better, it doesn't let me go back and correct it by myself until we are reviewing my mistakes. There could be more precise translation words when it gives us choices of what words to put to translate. Oh, and it keeps starting over each day. I'm not sure if that's a bug or just for review but it's really annoying and time consuming. 😂🤣 I'd give it 3 1/2-4 stars.
4 people found this review helpful
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