Duolingo: Language Lessons

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.6
33.6M 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 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
Jun 2, 2025
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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

4.5
31.9M reviews
Steve Marpman
June 8, 2025
DO NOT PAY FOR THIS APP!!! Unintuitive teaching style that is often incomplete and discouraging. The in-lesson guidance, or "hints," often have no regard for word order or all the correct words to use. I often get marked wrong for correct answers that are just worded differently, even though there is more than one correct way to write something. Completely non-existent customer service for paying subscribers. Feedback to them seems pointless because they NEVER respond. Morons run this app.
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JJ McDonough
May 13, 2025
Great at the most important part of an app like this: Gamifying. They keep it fun and engaging. The curriculum is generally well put together, so it's not like gamification is the only thing they're good at. But learning is hard. Keeping you hooked is important. No app will get you 100% of the way there, but this one seems like a good start.
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Do as I say Not as I do!
March 27, 2025
Edit: so, they changed the ability to just practice which the worst update they could've done. One main reason I loved it was the ability to just practice, HOWEVER learning a new language is hard enough but forcing you to move forward when your not ready or lose your streak. They need to change it back. Other updates are fine but they should have never changed practice😞 Original (part): Love it. I keep forgetting you can tap on the words to get the translation. They don't make that an issue.
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What’s new

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.

The owl sees all 👁️👁️👁️