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Duolingo is Apple's 2013 App of the Year!
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Education Free Duolingo, Inc iPhone, iPad, iPod

Learn Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Irish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, and English. Totally fun. Totally free.

"Far and away the best language-learning app." —The Wall Street Journal

"Duolingo may hold the secret to the future of education."—TIME Magazine

PC Magazine Editors' Choice for Language Learning: "Among iPhone apps for learning or practicing a language, you can't beat Duolingo."

"The most productive means of procrastination I’ve ever discovered. The short lesson blocks are painless and peppy, and reaching the next level (and then the level after that) becomes addictive." —Slate

Duolingo is changing the way people learn languages.

With Duolingo, you learn a language completely free, without ads or hidden charges. You have fun while you learn, leveling up and competing with friends.

Yeah, it's pretty sweet.

Reviews

ありがとう
aawash neupane

I’ve been using this app for about 2 weeks and I’m loving it. I wanted to learn Japanese, and I can already say a lot of words. For example: ありがとう = thank you すみません = excuse me おやすみなさい = good night こんにちは = hello All in all, I think that Duolingo is a great place to start your passion of learning a language. Although it doesn’t teach you every single word, the way they teach you is amazing. They repeat the content to ensure that you can memorize what everything means. Every section teaches you a new thing and it all ends with a quiz in the end to make sure to picked up everything from that section. I’m so excited to continue using this app to learn Japanese and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn a language.


Amazing!
NG its me

I never though in 2 days I would be writing sentences in French. This app is amazing. Highly recommend.


Duolingo is good but needs a history button
Serena Nwagwu

The app is great but needs a history button to remember what people learned because most people don’t write what they learn (I’m learning german,japanese,itallian) and it’s kinda hard writing in japanese but I am used to it. But it needs a history button so Duolingo really needs a history button!


Exelente para aprende muchos idiomas y divertidos juegos
elcora94

Buena para aprende jugando


Helpful, But Often Frustrating
C Kite

Though this app mostly gracefully move one through the levels of language, I hate that so many things are repeated, ad nauseum! When I answer each section correctly 92~100%, over & over, I feel I’m wasting my time when I could be working on skills that would actually move my language comprehension forward. Auuggh!!! I would think the app could discern when one does not need to repeat anymore. Because it helps some I’ll hang a bit more, But if I have to spend a 1/2 hour to an hour at a time repeating things I already get correct there may be an end to that


Missing Features and Awful Gem System
AllenDiego

I recently purchased the Duolingo Plus family plan for the year. There is some major room for improvement, though: 1). There is little to NO interaction with your friends and family. I’m not sure why Duolingo doesn’t allow more space for this. You’re forced into a weekly league with strangers. You can’t compete with your own friends and family. Please, Duolingo, attempt to make this a better experience for friends and family. Give us SOMETHING in the form of interaction with friends and family, and not the “give a high five” message. There is ZERO substance for interaction between friends and family. 2) The gem system is almost a mockery to paying subscribers. The amount of gems you can receive in a day is incredibly pathetic, considering the high cost of using them. Why are paying subscribers having to either wait about month to earn enough gems to buy the bonus learning content? I spent over $100 on this app, and yet, I still need to either wait forever to earn gems or I can spend even more money buying gems themselves. It’s a cheap cash grab, in my opinion, and is incredibly insulting to paying subscribers. The gem system is actually a point of frustration in the app, and not a positive. The gem system is horribly thought out. 3) I’m not sure it’s worth the high cost of subscription. Will it actually help me learn and test out of my second language requirement in college? It’s too early to tell. Conclusion: The lack of any form of interaction between friends and family and the truly awful gem system are likely enough reasons to not pay for this app, or stick with it. This could be a truly great app if they bother to make some easy, yet essential, improvements.


Love the app! Highly recommend!
Nees!

Love this app. I’ve noticed a tremendous difference in the way that I read and understand Spanish. I feel like I have learned a lot over the past 40 days since I’ve been using the app, compared to day one I feel like I know a pretty good amount now. My only complaint with the app is that I feel like if you get majority of the sentence correct and only miss one word or happen to misspell something you should get partial credit instead of getting completely marked wrong. Sometimes seeing the little red bar at the bottom for small errors like spelling can be discouraging. Yes, I understand that in the actual language itself, the spelling (or misspelling) of one thing can mean something totally different but for the sake of learning, seeing red can sometimes “scare” or discourage a new learner to a language. Especially if the mistake in question is something as simple as missing “the” at the beginning of the sentence. Or using a word interchangeably. Otherwise this app is really fun and the way that the activities tie into daily life, conjugations and pictures of the words, it makes learning a new language very seamless. I’ve noticed that now I can see or hear Spanish speaking somewhere else outside of the app and my brain automatically translates familiar words. Definitely recommend! (Fwiw , I have the plus version).


It’s cool I guess
live wallpaper hd

It helps you with learning for the most part, but I don’t like how you have to wait for the hearts to refill when you lose.


Faantastic
mariespe2

Fantástico y fabuloso metido de aprendizaje de idiomas


Pierwszy raz nauka na 100 %
Grzegor61

Witam, Wielokrotnie podejmowałem próby nauki języka angielskiego. Mam 60 lat więc tych prób trochę było. Niestety jak z odchudzaniem, brak motywacji, narzędzi, korekty pracy i jej kierunku powodowały, że osiadałem na mieliźnie językowej. Dziś dzięki Duolingo mam wszystkie elementy niezbędne do nauki w jednym miejscu. Gorąco polecam. Pozdrawiam