Duolingo: Language Lessons

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.6
33.2M reviews
500M+
Downloads
Editors' Choice
Content rating
PEGI 3
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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 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 and Music 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.

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 and Music 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.

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
May 13, 2025

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

4.6
31.5M reviews
Kai Ren Ong
April 27, 2025
I enjoyed Duolingo and it helped me learn the basics of Mandarin Chinese but you've revamped the course and all of a sudden I've been moved FORWARD from section 2 to 3 and I don't know the vocab and grammar! I've been awarded 3 stars on a whole lot of timed challenges and I can't even complete the 2nd star. It's nonsense and not helping my learning. My current stage is far too difficult for me. I cannot understand how you have compared the old and new versions but you've got it badly wrong.
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Elizabeth Lloyd
April 26, 2025
Quit a 1240 day streak years ago due to excessive ads and poor quality. Came back due to an upcoming trip to Mexico. Had super Duolingo but it's still getting worse and worse. I turned off notifications but it tries to nag. Answers that are 100% correct are marked wrong. And now the app icon changes to things that are just unpleasant to see. It's an unpleasant app to have around, a chore to use and doesn't actually teach. Uninstalling. I recommend you avoid at all costs.
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Marcus Shaw
April 27, 2025
Family Plan subscriber. Becoming frustrating. It's not cheap. Good enough for absolute beginners. Daily Games make it easy to get in to. Once you have the basics it's very limited. Too much AI, pronunciation is "strange" and it doesn't accept English (vs American). Unfortunately instead of continuing to improve the app like their competitors, they're choosing a program of shitification, where improvements and upgrades get stuck behind a paywall. Duolingo is already over priced for what it is.
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