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Intro

Duolingo: Language Lessons, the world's most popular language learning platform, revolutionizes the way we acquire new languages. Designed with an engaging and interactive interface, Duolingo turns language education into an entertaining experience for users of all ages. Offering courses in over 40 languages, it empowers millions globally to achieve their multilingual dreams, breaking barriers through accessible, gamified education.

Function

Duolingo's functionality is centered around bite-sized lessons that adapt to learners' individual progress. Key features include a diverse range of exercises such as translation, listening comprehension, speaking practice, and grammar skills enhancement. The app’s smart algorithm personalizes the learning path based on strengths and weaknesses, ensuring an efficient learning curve. Additionally, Duolingo offers a streak system and reward incentives to motivate consistent practice, along with a competitive leaderboard fostering a sense of community and friendly competition.

User experience

Users commend Duolingo for its intuitive design and enjoyable user experience. The app’s vibrant visuals and playful characters make language learning feel less intimidating and more like a game. Its offline accessibility further enhances convenience, allowing learners to study anytime, anywhere. Regular updates ensure fresh content and continuous improvement, responding promptly to user feedback. However, some users may find the repetitiveness of exercises challenging for long-term engagement.

Advantage

One of Duolingo's greatest advantages lies in its affordability – the majority of its content is available for free, making language education widely accessible. Its scientific approach, backed by research, ensures that learning methods are effective and efficient. The app’s social features, which allow friends to connect and track each other's progress, foster accountability and motivation. Furthermore, Duolingo's compatibility across multiple platforms ensures seamless learning continuity between devices.

Shortcoming

Despite its numerous strengths, Duolingo faces criticism for its limited depth in teaching complex grammar structures and cultural nuances. Some users feel that while it excels in vocabulary building and basic sentence construction, advanced conversation skills and idiomatic expressions receive less attention. Additionally, the reliance on translating sentences might not cater to every learner's preferred style, and the app's speech recognition technology, though improving, can occasionally be inaccurate, affecting speaking practice accuracy.

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Kaloyan Kotev

Jul 11, 2024

It is a fairly good app. Of course, it can't compare to having an actual teacher, but it does encourage consistency, which can help you keep your mind sharp. Though, the exercises are weirdly fluctuating in difficulty, i feel like there should be some user input on if something needs more practice. For example, i am learning German, but i already know a lot of things due to having a teacher outside of Duolingo. That means some of the exercises are useless for me, since i already learned it.

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Jessica Wade Music

Jul 13, 2024

App is really great at keeping you engaged in learning through your visual, verbal, and hearing skills. The app keeps stories interesting and gives different scenarios to assist in growth. I really enjoy the app. Since it's beginning it has improved in that demographic. I think it is also well categorized. You learn along the way. Rather than given a conjugation, spelling, or syntax lesson before you start.

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Dieula Jeanty

Jul 19, 2024

It's amazing! It's easy to learn any language on this app. my whole family speaks French but I couldn't. I have always had trouble speaking French and every single resource I used never worked and gave me no progress. but one day I was scrolling on my phone and found duolingo. I thought it wouldn't work but I still gave it a shot. it actually worked! It's fun, easy, and it doesn't give to much preasure.you can also customize ur avatar and make friends! I love it. and now I could speak French!

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Kieran Fenrir

Jul 14, 2024

I love this app. It makes learning fun. However, it is a bit expensive for a premium account to learn as much as you want. It takes a long time to reload hearts on free if you do mess up. Yes, the premium is worth it if you can afford it. I loved the 2 weeks I got free. It ment alot that I could just hyperfixate on learning for awhile rather then maybe get 2-3 lessons done. It sucks having a limited income and then having the options to upgrade or education be hit by pay walls.

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Amelia Lopez

Jul 20, 2024

Duolingo is the only thing you can use to learn other languages! It allows you to see your mistakes once you make them when it shows the correct answer which I personally like very much. It also gives you reminders for your lessons everyday and throughout the day! Once the dag is coming to an end Duo gives you one last notification giving you a timer that has how long you have until the day ends! You can get day streaks, streak freezes and even the option for Super Duolingo! Using Dou is great!!

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Broken CodeYT

Jul 17, 2024

I love it. I've learned more French from Duolingo in a month then I did from 3 years of French classes at school. The free version is also great because there aren't too many ads, and when there are they are short and don't come at inconvenient times. Even my 8 year old sister is learning languages really fast with their wide range of ones to learn and a great system. You will love it too, just as long as you don't break your streak...

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Sascha FOX

Jul 16, 2024

Easy to use. Is set up like a game with goals and trophys for your accomplishments. Abit extra for me but it might be helpful for someone else. Friend goals (optional) is working individually to make the bigger goal. The lessons are great for main languages, however if your looking for dialects they won't have them. Ex: Valais Walliserdeutschis is a dialect of German (You'd have to learn these dialects while traveling).

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xXLunaXx421

Jul 11, 2024

I've been using it daily for almost a year. I love the cute widgets and the variety of ways each lesson is presented (assists with pronounciation, provides alternate word meanings, stories, ect.) As a person with ADHD, it's difficult to keep with the pace, so the daily streak helps to be consistent. I'm not a fan of the leaderboard, even though I know it's meant for encouragment... I wish I could opt out of it because it makes me anxious.😅 But overall Duo is a great learning app. I reccormend!

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Lahesan Kamalanathan

Jul 19, 2024

I'm very much fascinated by this app. Tried some apps and this is buy far, the most rewarding and supporting one. By continously pushing you to "play" it'll help you stay motivated to learn a language, depending on your passion and motivation I'd recommend this to anyone who's willing and eager to learn a language. This is me just talking about the free version, the paid possibility let's you get access to much more efficency learning by infinite hearts, challenges for a day, pronunciation etc.

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Andrew

Jul 16, 2024

One of the best, if not the best, language learning app I have ever used, with a fun and easy learning process and a customizable learning plan as well as rewards for keeping you're learning streak, this app beautifully incentives you to use it each day and keep the steady repetition of learning going, I also love the ability to friend and follow people you know allowing for you to keep in touch and show how much you've learned

Information

Category

Education

Version

V5.105.4

Tag

duolingo | languages | language

Rate

4.7

Reviews

767159

Installs

500,000,000+

Developer

Duolingo

Content Rating

Everyone

Learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, English and more languages for free.

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Previous Versions

V5.147.3

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V5.146.3

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V5.140.5

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V5.138.6

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V5.127.4

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V5.120.3

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V5.115.4

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V5.114.4

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V5.112.4

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V5.109.4

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V5.108.3

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V5.107.3

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V5.105.4

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V5.104.4

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V5.85.4

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V5.83.4

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V5.51.4

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V5.51.3

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V5.51.2

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V5.49.3

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