Duolingo - Language Lessons App Reviews

Deserves 5 star if not for…. I like this app a lot. I liked it better with the community interaction because I learned and understood more by reviewing user interactions and conversations with more experienced users. Now there’s no where to go when I don’t understand certain things. I’m left in the dark without explanation by the app. Also, when I’ve addressed issues within the app, no one ever responds. Also, in reviewing privacy tracking policies of my installed apps and how they track across other apps and websites owned by other companies, and collected data linked to my identity, I was astonished to see how much tracking this app will do (some of which is acceptable, other of which is most certainly not acceptable): DATA USED TO TRACK ME: purchases, location, contact info, user content, identifiers, usage data, diagnostics, other data (what other data?). DATA LINKED TO ME: purchases, financial info, location, contact info, CONTACTS, user content (??? from where, notes or other apps???), search history, identifiers, usage data, diagnostics. That’s too much collection. I deleted the app and now only use via web browser, hoping for less intrusion. A privacy web browser tab may also reduce the intrusion. Again, I really do enjoy the program and the app is very nice and makes rewards dazzle more, but because of what I stated above I deleted the app and put the web page on my home screen, hoping it is not intrusive or as intrusive and prying into other apps’ data.

The new update has me thrown!. Normally Duolingo is a life send because I am learning a language essentially for free! I love the quirky characters, the amazing challenges like match madness, the leagues which push me to really focus to reach the top, and sooo much more including but certainly not limited to the friends quest. Me and my husband have been competing against each other 😂 and that’s been helping me get on steadily; including the notifications from Duolingo with the amazing widgets and notifications that aren’t overwhelming. In short.. it’s amazing!! But babyyy 😑 the new and improved language literally just added has completely messed up the way I have been learning! (For reference, I’m at the top in obsidian league, one before the final league possible) With the update, the way I have been taught to say certain phrases, ask questions and address people has completely changed! Now while I get this is for proper grammar and communication, I am now struggling slightly. The worst of it is, it’s with stuff I already learned and so I can’t try and relearn the sections I’m now struggling with, I can only test/review them. So though it’s supposed to be improved, there should have been options asking if we’d like to redo certain parts not just test or knowledge through reviews where it’s not teaching. I will state that I’m still going to use Duolingo because it’s worth the journey; even if frustrating.

Duolingo. Duolingo is great! It is really fun and great if you are just doing this for fun. Now it’s a different story if you want to actually visit the country. It makes absolutely no sense how they put these lessons in order. At first it makes sense because it’s practicing greetings and stuff you would actually use if you were going to go to the country but as it goes on, it starts to make less sense it makes you talk about your family or your work and if you’re just visiting the country, you obviously don’t work there. So what I think they could do to improve that is that they could ask in the beginning. Are you doing this for fun? Are you doing it for work or is it for visiting the country. Then based off the answer you choose it gives you your lessons in order. So let’s say you choose for fun. Well then they could leave it how they already have it because you’re not really gonna do anything with it you’re just learning, but if you’re using it for professional purposes, it should have in order talking about your work and greetings and then talking about where you’re from and then the other stuff, but if you’re actually going to visit the country, it should give you first greetings then how to order food at a restaurant or ask for directions or something not first greetings next how to talk about your work or where are you from?

It’s a good app!. This is some reasons i gave this app 4 stars only. I did not want to put 5 because of some stuff so let me tell you. This app is so amazing i would download it if i were you but, i am trying to learn french because of friends.. but it does not really teach me french language. All it kinda wants me to do is pick the right french word or, something else like that. It doesn’t seam to make me remember all the words. So i give this app a 4. No hate to this app because they are trying there BEST to help people learn new languages! Its really a great app but also, it wants you to pay a lot for a month I’m pretty sure to get no ads and level up quicker. Almost every app has a monthly subscription witch is kinda unfair. People are losing there jobs during this moment of Covid-19 so they won’t be able to pay that much for a month or however much it costs. I would say who would want to level up fast? It would not be fun because its going fast and you really learn anything and, its kinda cheating as what i think. The no ads.. well thats kinda “OK” but i don’t know about it.. the ads are kinda great although, they are about the Duolingo subscriptions. The ads are actually short though so i would not mind the ads because i don’t want to pay a monthly subscription. So i give this a 4 i guess but it’s actually good app and i think you should download it if you like! There is so many amazing languages out there on Duolingo. Thanks for reading my review! - Customer <3

I have some issues and some solutions. I get the point of this app, but why do I need to wait four hours every time I can five questions wrong!? I got this game to learn not to wait a long period of time when I don’t understand something. I don’t see how your learning if your spending your time waiting. I stopped using this game for a month then I decided to play again, then of course I remembered why I stopped giving attention to this game. Because as soon as I lost my hearts I couldn’t learn anymore and it’s really frustrating. So here are some ideas, first take away waiting four hours maybe instead when you loose all of your hearts you just have to restart the lesson or go back 3 questions, second you should have categories of different things you want to learn in a certain language. For example you want to learn French, but only about relatives, so you just go to the category “Relatives.” Third of all I think this game could be slightly more entertaining but adding small educational videos or short songs of the language and lesson your learning just to make this game interesting when you reach the middle of your lesson for example, maybe the beginning, or end for a summary. Honestly this game isn’t bad but it is extremely frustrating when I can’t learn but I see the point and the potential, so overall this is a good and popular educational learning app I recommend. (But please think about my ideas🥺🙏❤️)

It’s ok but the widgets. The app is good. I’m already at my super Duolingo and I have absolutely no problems for notifications and I’ve never even updated it before so I don’t know what it’s gonna be like also i’m learning Spanish, German, Music but the widgets know most of them are fine, except for three of them, the one that says “don’t let it break!” that’s what it’s starting to threaten me, and then next it says “last chance!” and then the widget changes, and it still mad, and then still says “last chance!” so I can definitely tell that it’s trying to threaten me Oh wait! I forgot that there’s more that bother me for an example like the early widget one it’s staring into my soul with the streaks in both of his eyes also, the one that says “unfreeze your streak” I know it looks normal, but there’s something off about it that bothers me but I’ll find out eventually also, there’s one that said “it’s late!” like seriously what the heck is that widget there’s also one that falling into a Duolingo head like bro is falling in there own head and there’s also one that whenever you finish your lesson the widget will sing and it looks like there say this Duolingo: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and there’s also one that makes it look like Duolingo is having a wedding with someone sometimes it says “time to practice!” and sometimes it says, “Duolingo misses you” there’s also one that was doing it being a school and by the way, the one I was talking about earlier nvm

Excellent App, but could use more Languages!. I’ve been using Duolingo for a while now to practice my French, and in the time I have had the app I have tried out several other languages too (including Spanish, Russian, German, Klingon, etc.). The games make learning fun and the teaching style helps keep the terms and sentence structures ingrained in my memory very well! My only request/hope for this app (not a complaint, I love the app) is that while I appreciate the inclusion of fictional languages like High Valyrian and Klingon, I would like for there to be more significant languages to be added to Duolingo’s roster of classes as well. Widely-spoken languages like Arabic and Bengali are noticeably absent on the course list (for English-speakers, not sure about others), as well as Finnish, which is a little strange because Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish are all present. Personally, as someone whose family comes from the western Balkans, I would love to see a language course on Serbo-Croatian, since it is a difficult language that I believe Duolingo would be an excellent tool to help me to become better at it. Recently, Hawaiian and Navajo were added to the roster, which excites me and makes me hope for these languages to be added sometime in the future as well. Overall, I love the app and will continue using it to study foreign languages! I look forward to seeing more language courses added in future updates! 👍

Very good but I have suggestions. Update. Still loving the format after 2 months but good grief the choice of vocabulary words for Vietnamese! Why am I learning bee, bat, comedian, ferris wheel, sparrow… when It hasn’t introduced numbers 6-9, or uncle/niece/ etc, or how to ask price, or even say - get this - RICE! which is a major food staple there! WHY?? I have been studying Vietnamese daily for a month and have suggestions for better learning. First and most important please make learning accents a much more integral and required part of learning the words. When you start, it seems like a pain, but as you move on you learn how necessary it is. Secondly, on the “Translate this sentence” lessons, I try to understand by only listening before looking at the words, but they speak at full speed and it’s just too fast for a beginner. Slowing down by just 10-15% would probably be enough to distinguish words. Third, I would love to be able to tag words that I want more practice on. Fourth, I can’t check something in the built in dictionary during a lesson without losing progress, and the dictionary is only in Vietnamese or lesson order. You should be able sort alphabetically in English too. Last, “What do you hear?” should tell you the definitions for reinforcing vocabulary. Overall it is very good and I am really enjoying it. I stopped playing games because I actually prefer the challenge of this app!

Very good overall, but still no substitute for a qualified teacher or native speaking friend. I am less than 100 days from 2,000 day streak on premium Duo! I have studied French and German. It is a great basis to work from for novices in languages with similar alphabets but when I experimented with Japanese and Chinese I was utterly clueless. With some Russian in college I could deal with Cyrillic but no one could understand my Duo pronunciation. My main issues with Duo is when I don’t understand something I need a “qualified or Duo-Certified” “professional” to explain it to me, not some random fellow learner. In German I am lost with their, our, his, her, etc . I am looking forward to the “video chat” with Lily. I study Duo as a hobby, I am not in any classes for languages so I do not push myself hard, many times only 5 minutes a day and other times an hour a day… depending on my schedule and mood/motivation. I am expecting to be in an African country speaking French in a few months again so I hope to use the review feature. I have some serious doubts about Duo teaching Vulcan but not Tajik or Farsi. Lastly, please keep the politics out of Duo. Once in a very rare occurrence it is ok to have a homosexual dialogue but let’s focus on the majority for learning. I do hope that there is a nice “award” for hitting 2,000 straight days. In the end, Duo is well worth the money to me but it has some significant shortcomings in the realm of lack of explanations.

Course quality depends on the language. I've been using the premium version for two years, mostly on Japanese and tried some others. Some language courses are much better than others. For example the Spanish course seems pretty robust. Korean seemed pretty bad for beginners (even though it's a relatively easy language to learn). I have the most experience with the Japanese courses. It's honestly not great if you're completely new to the language. It doesn't have much focus on teaching the basic alphabet and tries to jump into to words or phrases without much context. If you already know a bit and want to learn some kanji it is decent for that. There are many frustrations with the courses. One of the most annoying things is when you're trying to complete courses quickly to beat a certain timer. Some sentences they want you to translate are weirdly long and unnatural. I can't help but to think there are roadblocks set in place to encourage people to buy timer boosts. I also really don't like the amount of unnecessary animations, some which you cannot turn off that just adds time between courses. Pretty frustrating when I'm trying to finish a few quick lessons during a break or to get more xp within the boost timer. Overall it's a fun little way to get some practice in but it's best used as a supplemental learning too. For many languages it doesn't seem to be a good way to learn from scratch.

Excellent learning tool, Needs more community interaction. I have tried many language learning applications, but Duolingo is by far my favorite. Why? Well first, this review is based on the subbed version. I subbed immediately so I cannot speak for the unsubbed version. Now, this is why it is my favorite app. I am to unit 3. The lessons I have encountered have been the best I have used for memorization. I will cover pronunciation in a moment, though. Now listen, it are VERY repetitive. ALL Language apps are should be. However, other apps don’t provide as much variance as duolingo. I am extremely impressed that they can repeat vocabulary enough to optimize memorization, yet also provide consistent variance between the material. redundant vocabulary becomes interesting every time. I have used apps that have no variance and become boring fast, and apps that are too fast paced, lacking memorization technique and losing their learning power. Duolingo also offers stories that you listen and interact with, and even interactive podcasts. They are my favorite. The app gives you true sense of progress through achievements, monthly challenges, speed challenges, ranking, and a lot more. My critique is an app like this has more COMMUNITY potential than they realize. If I could message directly and even form groups with other learners in this app, it would be fantastic.

Nice app but slow progress. The app is nicely designed and has good variety of testing formats, but each level takes FOREVER to pass. Some have 20 rounds before you can move on - and each round is the SAME thing. Even some of the levels seem the same. This feels like a waste of time for the learner and has made me start practicing even less (therefore using the app less) because I already know the material by round #5. I don’t need to review it 15 more times. Please make the progress faster, perhaps integrating some review of previous levels into later ones to ensure retention. Also, please allow us to skip levels more easily - right now it takes 400 gems to pass a level, and that takes many days of repetitive practice (of topics I already know) to accumulate. Not worth it. I even made a separate account to start over and take a placement test to hopefully bypass some of these basic levels. I did much better on this test that my first one, yet the levels they put me on seemed the exact same as on my other account - does the test actually place you anywhere other than the beginning? I get that you’re trying to make money by encouraging us to pay for more gems, but what you’re actually doing is discouraging me from using the app. (Plus, with all the ads, I already feel sufficiently encouraged to pay for premium.) Perhaps just make the number of gems we’re awarded for meeting our daily goal much larger or make the number required to pass a level much smaller.

New smaller word boxes TOO SMALL. Since the recent update (late April 2018), on my iPad Pro DuoLingo app, the word boxes and the type within them, which one taps to put together a translated sentence, are frequently appearing much smaller than the helpful size they consistently were before. Sometimes they appear in the original size, but more often now, even with a short sentence where there is no problem fitting them on the page, they are very small. Harder to read, and harder to accurately select. And I have small hands/fingers. I lost several “health” bars and had to stop my lesson sooner than in the past, because I was selecting at the speed I always have, and realized I could not have the confidence I had grown accustomed to, that when I think I have touched a word box, it is selected. So my learning process is slowed not because I am selecting the incorrect word and losing health, but that I have to stop and check more diligently to make sure the box I tapped (or tried to, but apparently did not hit the now very small “sweet spot” on it which selects it), actually shows up in the answer box. This was NEVER an issue before the change in word-box size. Please make them, if not as large as they have been previously, larger than they are after this recent “upgrade”. Very annoying in an otherwise wonderful app...you folks say you want to make learning easy, and my feedback is that this tiny type in close-together boxes, is an impediment to learning. Thank you.

Love it, but some features need to be added. I have to say that Duolingo has taken me to a new world of languages. I can spend my whole days practicing with Duo and increase my ability of using languages. However, there're still things that I'm not satisfied with this version for IOS: - the discussions after answers: I've wait for them since a long long time ago. I believe that Duolingo is not only a software for learning languages, but also a special environment for everyone to enhance their skills together. Using Duo on IOS is quite convenient, but if I want to check my answer with the other's, I have to login my account again on the version for web browser, go to that skill, do it and seek for the question. That's not good at all! - The report: Nothing happens when I press the button to report the errors (most of them are translation errors). My and other's reports are the very efficient tools to help Duo better, and we want to see that in the near future. - The club should be added to web version and the currency systems - gems - needs need to be synced. Anyway, the life point is awesome, but we want more games, or tournaments, or challenges, or... something like that, just to increase the competitiveness between leaners. I know that to solve with the problems I've listed above will take a lot of time and money and labor power, but we can believe with our effort and strength, the future of Duolingo is brighter than ever! Duolingo is the sweet home for everyone!

Great But Here Are A Few Tips. So this is great! I started learning Spanish a few weeks ago and I have learned a lot from this app. I thought I wasn’t going to stick with it, but I ended up doing it. It’s a really great app if you want to learn any language! Just a few tips though. A couple times, I’ve had a thing pop up when I’m trying to do my lesson. It says that something went wrong. I came back a while later and the same thing was happening. I’ve been working hard on my streak, and I really don’t want to lose it. I wonder if it is possible to not break my streak because of an error in the app. It’s only happened a couple times, so its fine. Another thing: I feel like we shouldn’t be given the stories until we got all of our first lessons done. I tried to do it when I only had 10 crowns, and I didn’t understand everything. I had to use the hints, and then I felt like I wasted a story. I would recommend not Doug the stories until you are done with the first lesson. The cafe one I would wait until you have the restaurant lesson done with all five crowns. The last thing is just being able to have more than 5 hearts if we do the practice. (Or at least up to 6). I feel like then, you would practice more to get hearts (even if it’s only one more than when your hearts are refilled). Well, this app is amazing even if you don’t fix those tiny things. I would definitely recommend.

My Opinion. It’s a great app for learning a new language in the end, I have some minor problems with the app though. I don’t like the non stop reminders, I don’t like how the cover looks sad whenever you don’t use it for long enough( not that big of a deal but it’s kind of annoying because I don’t always have time to learn German), and I don’t like how random strangers can see how much time I spend on Duolingo. There are some solutions to the things I mentioned, with the random people seeing your stats if you block people they can’t see you but I also would rather have a button or something in the beginning that’s like “would you like to let others see your stats?” And with the reminders thing it does have a a question once you download it where it says “would you like Duolingo to send you notifications” but I had no idea how many it would be and now I don’t know how to turn them off without airplane mode. Anyway, despite these tiny problems I really think it’s a great app and it’s definitely worth it. The quests are very exciting, the match madness mini game and other mini games are very entertaining and I think it’s a great way to learn a language. Before I downloaded it the only thing in German I new was “Danke” but now I could have plenty of conversations in German, that’s absolutely phenomenal to me! I really think a few errors shouldn’t hold anyone back from considering trying out this app.

I am loving this app!. This app is really helping me to learn very quickly. I am learning Greek and brushing up on Spanish. I wish it would handle a few things differently Among them, letting me test out of Spanish levels further along the way than it does, but I understand they are testing whether that feature is more or less beneficial for learning at the moment. So, I upvoted the feature :). The other thing is that the adds are locked in portrait mode and the “practice” tab also starts out and sometimes gets stuck in portrait mode. I have tor turn my iPad to portrait and back to landscape and it usually switches to landscape then, but not always. I pretty much always use my iPad in landscape mode. Especially when I am using the keyboard, which the app has plenty of. I wish that the whole thing would just be in the orientation of my screen without changing/ trying to figure out which direction it should be as I use the app. Otherwise, this app has been AMAZING and, while, I’d love those improvements, I’m really just being nit picky. I didn’t feel it deserved any less than 5 stars because the rest is awesome! One note, if anyone is having trouble understanding anything in the language you’ve chosen or with the app, visit the website and check out the discussions tab. There is a lot of helpful info in there and many other language learners who are very happy to help out!

Great app, I love it for language learning, but too meat-centric. I love using this for learning languages and use it daily. My primary is Spanish, then I use it some for other languages like French, Portuguese, Korean and German, which I’ll explore more when I finish Spanish. So much here and very well updated and perfected. Only technical issue is occasionally with words not accepted when doing audio to text on challenges. The audio to text doesn’t always work but it’s about as good as can be. Minus one star because it is SO MEAT-CENTRIC. The food sections are all about meat- chicken and fish. The audio sections are all about meat, and ordering only meat sandwiches, vegetables are gross…. Even the stories have one mocking vegetarians and to make that clear the audio part where you repeat what you hear is just for the waiter who ignores the man asking for vegetarian food. It’s the same on every language and super annoying for me and likely any vegans or vegetarians or anyone who eats more than carne y pollo y pescado. Super sick of it tbh, and would detract more stars but the rest of this is great and has taught me a lot for a realistic monthly fee so for that I’m just leaving this here for developers and the content design team to hopefully see and take into account. I know this app is all about diversity and inclusion— it shines through all the podcasts— and it’s just not evident with climate change, animal rights and people who believe in these matters.

My answer to la leche is wrong even though I spell it right.. This app has been very useful. My whole family speaks Spanish and they never taught me so I downloaded this app. Everything has been going good, but I have an issue with a lesson. So I decided to try and get all the crowns for the intro levels. I’m on level/crown 3 out of 6 and lesson 2 out of 4. Remember for this question, you have to complete 2 things to submit your answer. This question is talking about how to spell leche and choosing if la or el goes with it. So you choose la or el and of course I chose la because that is correct, then you have to type la leche. So when I’m trying to type la, the text box goes blank and you have to rewrite la, but this problem continues to occur when spelling la. So I put the word leche(milk) first and then take the blue like that’s there when you are typing and I put it in the beginning of the word leche and then type la in front of it with a space in between the 2 words. I then submit my answer thinking I’m clever and it would still work. Then it says my answer is wrong and it says you spell it like la leche, which is how I spelled it. I then report the answer, I retried this a few times and it still didn’t work. So I then skipped the level and went to the next level and was doing it until the same question popped up, just with different words. I then tried to answer it and it did the same exact thing. I’m just trying to complete my levels, someone please help.

¡Me encanta Duolingo! Pero ... I have been using Duolingo for over a year now (462 day streak to toot my own horn hehe), and I can honestly say it’s a great tool for me to help refresh my Spanish skills! However, I do think there’s room for improvement. I wish the community chat rooms were available in app and not just by desktop! Also a lot of native translations that are often taught in curriculum are marked incorrect and that can be frustrating when you know for a fact that you are not wrong! Also, a lot of times the characters will speak out sentences to you but the phrases will be distorted causing you to be marked incorrect which is also very frustrating. One thing I do love is the stories they offer and the inclusion they add to try and incorporate real life situations in a easy to digest way! I also wish that a lot of the functions weren’t hidden behind a pay wall (understandable as the app is free so they need the ads) but only being able to have access to them once in every blue moon after you’ve completed hundreds of lessons isn't very convincing for people to buy that version as it is frustrating for people who want to learn who could use the resources! Overall it is a very good app if you want to be able to read a language on paper. As for real world application, I say this tool is just one of many you should be incorporating into your own method of learning!

It has been good, but future may be bleak. I have been using Duolingo for 255 days, and have been quite pleased. As a tool for learning words and phrases and being constantly refreshed, it is first rate. There are details about the language, like endings for adjectives, which depends on a number of different features, which there is no real explanation about someone either has to go to a grammar workbook or just hope to pick the rules up by context; perhaps some people can do that, but I , who studied German years ago, can’t. Also, it is I think very weak on conversation. But it shouldn’t be a surprise since there’s nobody on the other end to be talking to. HOWEVER news is coming out that there is going to be a change,, and that there will be two rather than one paid levels. The thing is, the main advantage of the paid level is that your session is not closed down for the day after you make a small number of errors. You really can’t learn anything if you’re not allowed to make errors after all. The news that I’m hearing is that the paid level that I am now subscribed to is going to lose the right to make unlimited errors every day. That’s gonna make the whole product, useless to me, because really most learning happens through making errors. So you should keep this in mind when you start this thing out that getting from the free version to a useful version is very likely going to cost even more than it does now.

Good concept bad execution. So far trying out duolingo I can see the potential and how it can help. After some time I feel like Im remembering words and phrases. The problem I have for at least the language Im trying to learn is Japanese. Is theres glitches or problems with the process. Some words are wrong, the steps are misguided, and the ability to correct a mistake is mon existent. Example, 2nd day when I learned the word “de su” which means “its” in english. The sentence would be “its sushi and rice”. So I would put the words in order and give me a wrong answer sayings “sushi and rice its”. Then the next word it would do the opposite. You can say theres a glitch but will make you repeat the phrase giving you multiple wrong choices. Then when youre like screw it ill do its bugged or glitched to it goes back to normal and you have to redo the step on a right answer. Also Im trying to learn a language after few days learning 7 words, they want me to know how to write it out as my next lesson without any practice. Then I cant skip that until I finish the full lesson. Also it gives you multiple meanings for the same pronunciation and spelling. So I look it up on google translate and it shows something completely different. So I went to my Grandma who is full Japanese and see mistakes already on the first few lessons. Again I can see how the concept is good and how it can make you remember. But it will end up being broken language with many flaws to be foreseen.

Duo review. Hello to my reader, I love duo always have but there’s some things I don’t like about it. For example:I have to keep my streak going that’s supposed to make the game more fun and Encourage the player to play daily, but sometimes I’m a bit more busy than most days and am unable to participate in my daily game. Which I know there is streak freezes but alas they are limited to how much you earn by playing, playing is extremely fun and it takes only 1-2 minutes of your time to play and learn. That’s super enjoyable for people like me who don’t have that much time to play, and I love that you can start a family plan, and add some friends and or family to learn and do daily activities, Overall Duolingo is an awesome experience for all ages. Which is nice but I wish that maybe you can pick exactly what you want to learn, or let them have some mini games that have different categories from the language your learning, I’m also aware that you can learn multiple languages at a time, and I’d love to learn Spanish and Arabic at the same time. But I’m not completely sure how to operate that soo, I’d also like to suggest a tutorial when you first start and if you forgot when your in the app and past the instructions. Overall this app is one of the best to learn from if you want to learn with ur family and friends, or maybe you’d like to by yourself, ether way this app is amazing and I love it. Deepest regards: Duolingo user1

Love the app but ... Look I Love this game like really but something is wrong with the duolingo Super so I got the super for free because I’ve been practicing like every day but do you have the icon that you could change from the boring old one to the new super one So I did that and next thing I know everything starts to crash like all my games work stuff and things, so I checked like what’s going on I’m panicking and then I realized this didn’t happen before, so I thought maybe icon because I changed it so after that I changed it back to what it was, and then everything started to like uncrashing so I was like let’s test it out again, so that’s what I did and then I turned it back on and everything started to like tell me I had no Wi-Fi but I have like five bars so can I have Siri right, and she tells me that something is wrong please try again but I have full bars like I said so then I turned it off like the icon And then after I turned it off everything started to work again, so I was like OK I’m not turning this back on again because then everything is going to start crashing again, so then after that I never turned it back on again and then everything is fine. |for DUOLINGO you really have to fix it because I don’t want no one to have a crash or their stuff telling them that they don’t have Wi-Fi because then they’re probably gonna get worried and I don’t want them to be worried at all like at all|

Pretty cool way to learn. It’s pretty cool , especially if you want to learn fast . My only problem is with the hearts and the league system. The hearts are a major problem, because while it gives you the incentive not to make a mistake, it makes me have to reset my focus especially when running out of hearts. I say this because once you run out of hearts trying to learn you must go to previous lessons and practice or wait, and this goes hand and hand with the league system too. After you run out of hearts some people don’t have the time to practice the other lessons that they’ve previously done and it feels redundant as you end up mastering these skills and this makes people ( especially me ) feel as if learning is being prohibited by that much longer. Feeling this way makes people not want to continue learning and then they drop down in the league system, and once you drop it feels as if your hard work is being undermined. This fact alone has made a few people I know stop using Duolingo for this purpose. Along with the fact that there is no explanations as to why you get things wrong. There NEEDS TO BE EXPLANATIONS, especially if you want people to actually learn. The only way people can truly learn is if they understand. Quite frankly when Duolingo tells me I’m wrong it enrages me because there is no explanations, which in turn makes understanding that much harder .

I like it a lot, and it can get better. I really like duo lingo and have used it to start learning new languages as well as to maintain ones I’ve learned in the past. I’m sure there are other programs out there that are better for more in-depth and possibly faster learning curves. My “issues” with duo lingo come from it seeming like they spend more time and effort on the little animations than helpful aspects of learning. They used to have this audio learn along thing where there are a few hosts walking you through an experience and you learn the phrases they use to get around and whatnot. THAT was helpful! You learn very useful phrases and since it feels like you’re speaking along with them it sticks better. They took that away for whatever reason even though a bunch of people online loved it (you can find Reddit threads and stuff). Duo lingo sometimes teaches some really dumb phrases when it should be oriented to often used /helpful things while visiting a place (ex: “duo likes to surf” vs “where is the restroom?”). I’m also annoyed that it’s taken them years to include more than just Swahili for African languages. And even now there’s only like maybe 3 MAX. Do y’all know how many of us are trying to learn Twi or Yoruba or one of the thousands going on there? The diaspora is HUGE and a lot of us are searching high and low to learn our homeland languages. But you have Dothraki and other made up languages 🤨🙄

Good starter language learning app but…. If you’re taking a language course in school, this app is great supplementation to practice your skills. If you’re just learning on your own, while Duo is a good stepping stone, you’ll need some extra resources if you’re serious in trying to master a language. Personally I use this and babble because the less popular languages like Swedish and Russian don’t get tips like German and Spanish. Apparently they’re available on the website itself, which is pretty inconvenient. (Really babble is more in depth in explaining the grammar. In comparing the two, they both have their strengths. Duo gives you quick vocabulary and babble gives more grammar.) My issue is really how strangely some of the modules are set up. I noticed that the more popular languages are set up in a way that’s a bit nonsensical and fails to set up the lesson they’re intending to teach you. The questions segment of German spent less time showing the proper set up on how questions are asked and spent more time having me translate random sentences. The thing that irritates me the most is how this app with every update tries to push you to buy premium. It used to be you’d just get a few ads for it but these days after every lesson about there’s another promotion for premium, with increasing unskippability which is even more aggravating. And they added an word save feature which is helpful for learning… except it’s for premium only!

Great app- bad update. As usual, “upgrades” to computer products destroy functionality and make things progressively worse for the user. Latest update now has all lessons in sequence so that the learner has much less flexibility than before. Maybe its better if you are a school teacher trying to control what your students learn but I am nearly 60 and don’t need a nanny. The problems I wish they would have fixed include tiny pictures that I can see on my iPhone and occasional screens that don’t have enough room to see the text you are typing. They have fixed some of the regionalisms and no longer force me to use continental Spanish, for example. One continual annoyance with all academic language instruction is the insistence on “school grammar” instead of how people actually speak and write. Since I learned Spanish in an immersion program, I continually run into grammatical elements not actually used that I have to put in, like the “se” reflexive pronoun. Duolingo puts it in all the time, street Spanish leaves it out unless there is no other reference to the object. Since I still can’t type reliably on virtual keyboards, I rely heavily on voice recognition, which works poorly. Most of my mistakes are due to voice recognition errors and secondly word order. Decent voice recognition would be a real plus for me. In some cases, the voice recognition just pumps out complete absurdities that bear no resemblance to what I said, recently, “darmelo” became “Dave my load”.

Best language learning app. Duolingo is a app where you can learn a extensive library of languages! Math, Music, Latin, Spanish, French, you name it, it’s probably on Duolingo. Basically how it works is there is a bunch of lessons which are 4-6 parts long, the lessons teach new words, or improve old ones. There is XP, which you obtain by completing lessons. People in leaderboards can compete with your XP every week too. You can go for fun mini games like the matching one which gives you extra XP. You can master levels by getting legendary on a level which adds some difficulty and fun at the same time. The user interface is amazing, it’s so easy to use! With the new update there’s achievements which give you things to look forward to or work towards! there’s streaks where you can practice every day to continue your streak, it helps you come back every day to learn more, currently i have a 440 day streak. You can also work with friends in friend quests! if you want to learn a language, come to duolingo. TLDR ============================== Duolingo is an excellent language learning app that makes learning languages fun and engaging. With its user-friendly interface and quirky design, it's perfect for beginners who want to learn a new language at their own pace. It offers a range of languages and lessons, from basic vocabulary to complex sentence structures.

I luv ur app😁. Duolingo is simple and fun to use. I can tell a lot of work goes into it from the audio lessons to the animation characters. I also enjoy your ads for some weird reason. I just feel like your adds genuinely show what the app is and aren’t annoying like other adds. I also think their entertaining and cute. I also like the fact that even without super Duolingo you can still learn effectively and the app is still good. This makes the app more accessible and useful to a lot of people. Unlike other apps where If you don’t pay for extra benefits or super memberships the app turns to be totally useless and you can’t do anything. I am learning Spanish and Japanese. I find both categories to be taught well. I also see the differences in the way you teach these languages. I’m also guessing it changes by what language you speak. Which I find helpful and super cool of you. I luv Duolingo, it is so much fun to use. So shout out to all of the Duolingo team. I suggest to anyone who is reading this to try out the app. Don’t worry about going to slow or fast. Which the app makes me feel good in. I feel like I can make mistakes and take my time and not be rushed. The app is also not that complicated to use. P.S. I don’t review app ever but I thought this app really deserved it. The apps physical design is nice and so are the characters. May God bless you 😁

This is fantastic!. I’ve always procrastinated learning the languages in which I wish to be fluent due to not having the time or money to pursue the interest, and Duo has created a fun way for me to learn with quick lessons that fit into my schedule, while making it free to pursue the interest. The premium version comes with even more features that I feel are valuable enough for the cost. This app works very well for my style of learning, and you begin with very basic sentences, learning slightly more advanced structures and content as you progress. I cannot stress this enough for newcomers: the comment section under each example sentence is a GOLD MINE of a learning opportunity. If you feel you do not understand what is being presented, check the comments and there is likely someone asking the question you have and someone else has already presented a very helpful explanation. *A note to the developers in regards to the preceding paragraph: in the few circumstances where I have a question that hasn’t yet been asked, or if I see a question that I feel confident I could answer, I would love to have the ability to add a comment directly from the app for iPad or iPhone without having to retry that lesson on the website to comment. I feel it is the only thing lacking from an otherwise amazing learning tool. Please, please, PLEASE add this for us!

Excellent learning app. I enjoy the app because it twos that you make a commitment in terms of time devoted to learning, the animations, the interactivity, etc. The only downsides are the ads and the cost; it’s not free. With digital marketing, banner ads, and the countless ways to funnel money from online channels, the app could be free and should be free for particular groups of people (teachers, educators, public relations staff, etc.). We are wanting to learn the languages of our students and families to effectively communicate with them. The two main contributors to sustained marginalization for students and families who are emerging English learners are ACCESS and OPPORTUNITY (A&O). Most educators know how to navigate systems to open A&O for all students, but specifically communicating with emerging English language learners is difficult. Effectively communicating with families helps to build trust and demonstrates support, inclusivity, and trust. Those connections matter when we, as educators, are trying to not only improve their learning but also break cycles of limited A&O which anchor the lives trajectory of far too many brilliant students and hard working families. Educators already pay so much money out of their tight pockets for operational supplies. The cost of this program could easily be offset for educators by industries, corporations, civic donations, online marketing, etc.

Good app! ...but needs work!. Great free app, very helpful and useful in learning new or refining old languages. However, it still needs work in my opinion. I am learning Spanish and I have learned a lot more than I already knew in a couple days... but there are times when using a proper word is necessary to succeed and move on, but I have to restart over and over again later (after practicing, to get health to play) ...because I picked the right term but wrong specific word and no explanation is given as to why. I.E: Yo (means I) has to be followed with an o in the use of words like como (eat) or bebo (drink) instead of come/comen/comes or bebe/beben/bebes (as I learned through searching), but no explanation is given as to why. It’s frustrating and infuriating. This needs to be explained and taught for proper teaching of other languages. Also, why does the asterisk above certain Spanish words apply but not on others? Learn it all or don’t even try I say! Finally, turn down the need for health as often, or turn up the regeneration rate. I read it was said that they are trying to make learning free. So do it more, please. Stop making me practice over and over again just to get 1 bar of health (works on only 1 mistake before failing) and have 1 measly chance at succeeding just to have to quit, practice, and start ALL OVER AGAIN; only to fail because I don’t understand what I did wrong! The ads are bad enough and should be sufficient... but then there’s this! Please fix!

Best Language App EVER!!! 5 STARS!!. I was planning on traveling to Europe and going to Italy. Because, it’s my dream! So, I was looking around for an app that I could learn Italian on and I found Babbel and I downloaded it. Let’s just say it was not the best experience. I don’t want to hate on an app that was hard to make so that’s all I’m gonna say. After some research I found Duolingo and I downloaded it to try it out. It was AMAZING! There are little lesson reviews on the side and fun little characters. There are so many languages to learn and so many fun things to do! You join leagues and try to make it up the leagues and that gets me going on the app. I highly recommend this app if you want to have fun learning a new language! There’s only one thing I would change (and it might be a little greedy) the heart situation. I’m sure you’ve gotten many people hating on how you lose hearts so I’m not gonna be that person because it’s an amazing app. But, for fairness, I don’t think you should lose hearts every time you make a mistake. Or at least, you gain hearts more often by getting a perfect lesson or something. Other than that, this is my go to language app. So, if your looking for a fun game with not just learning a little competing and fun I would highly recommend you get this app!! Ps- I would love if you guys responded to my review 🫶🏼 Thank you!

Room for improvement …. I’ve been using Duolingo since 2014 and I have been able to learn a few languages to an advanced enough level that I can comfortably credit Duolingo as one of the primary reasons for my success in learning said languages. Now, there are quite a few things that irk me about the app, particularly, the free versions bombardment of ads over the years and a subpar system of hearts which deter learning instead of encourage you. The introduction of new languages to learn has been rather slow but I have been pleased with the fact that Duolingo has made it known that they will continue to introduce new courses as they go. Another annoyance is that I seem to be missing a leaderboard now simply due to the fact that I traveled to a certain region and now I’m unable to access certain features of the app, like the leaderboard as I mentioned prior. This is extremely annoying as I find encouragement through competition, the leaderboard is a feature I have adored since it’s introduction in the app. I’ve yet to contact support regarding why this is so but hopefully the Duolingo support team can resolve this for me and if not then I will consider canceling my family plan. All in all, it’s a great app that can greatly benefit your language learning journey but there’s just a few spots that need polishing for this app to even be worthy of asking you for a paid subscription. Thank you.

Please read before you get it. If you, like me, knew and loved old duolingo of the duolingo tree, i need to tell you something. that is gone. they made something new called the “learning path”. look it up if you want to know more. i’m not here to waste your time on that, but what i will tell you is that it is very unhelpful and discouraging to see. i have had duolingo for a number of years now and LOVED it, am a member of the streak society, and a “super plus member”. i LOVED duolingo. not anymore, and quite frankly, i am very tempted to delete it, but i have learned SO MUCH AND I STILL HAVE HOPE. Duolingo!!! Please change the update back!!!I am very disappointed because you are getting so much feedback not only from me, but THOUSANDS of other unhappy customers! i had “super plus” and loved it, it was so worth it, but now, look what your amazing app has come to. i just unsubscribed a few days ago. it simply is no longer worth it. Please reach out as i really do love duolingo and want to see it do well, but i want Before the update, i was steadily learning future tense etc, and now i am stuck not being able to pick what i am working on, on an endless “path” that feels like i’m making no progress at all, which i’m not. Duolingo, this is seriously not good. this is the opposite of your goal, which is to help people learn. i feel like i’m LOSING my skills with italian, and it’s really sad because i love it.

I love the setup and purpose of why this app exists, some tweaks and I think it could be amazing. I just started to use this app again even though I’ve had an account since 2016. I’ve taken some courses in high school and college for Spanish which helps in the language learning process; most is just refreshing with the language of Spanish. I can’t provide to much input as to whether it will help you become fluent or not because I’m still on the beginning stages of the lessons. However I am enjoying my time with it and hopefully it does help me get to where I would like to be which is a fluent Spanish speaker. I rated four stars because going through the activities I’ve noticed that when it tells you to repeat the sentence the audio seems to lag on the last word and take a little while to register that you got it correct. Everything else is great, I like that if you get something wrong you can go to the discussion section where other users have had the same issues as yourself which has helped me understand errors so I don’t make the same mistake next time. Even after viewing the comment sections duolingo itself gives its own tip by using an example to help you remember and avoid the mistake you made for the future. I would highly recommend the app for learning a language but like I said previously I’m not sure if it will help you become fluent or not. Fix the audio issues of it lagging for a few seconds and I’d gladly rate five stars!!!

This app is good but…. Ok so this app is good when it comes to the content the stories for some lessons, character practice for some languages is good I wish there would be more for other languages. I miss the audio lessons that Duolingo used to have!!! The lessons were great resources for speaking practice and was good for hands free practice for if I’m cleaning or whatever! Please add this feature back 😭. Please read this when you can, Thank you for your time 👋🏻. Edit: I like the new path way. It’s a good way to stay organized and learn better without having any confusion on which to do next, it also helps with the “repetitive” problem that everyone had with the app, I personally didn’t due to the fact I used a method that was then incorporated into the new learning path. I also like that on mobile it is now separated into sections to be more organized and know what stuff are you learning for each language depending on how many units there are. Please add audio lessons back though because it’s hard to find a free alternative when this was the best free resource to use. Edit 2: I love the new duolingo radio however the music course is a little mid and I wish they further expand it and not just limit it to learning through the keyboard for some parts. And really expand more on memorization for key signatures. I also like the number that is given within a language course. Can’t wait for more.

App won’t open!. Just updated Duo app (to new frowning face one) and now app will NOT open. Pls fix issue! This will prevent me from completing daily lessons, hurt my streak & prevent me from earning boosters. Overall the app has been great. It’s fun & engaging. Love all the different languages you can learn (along w/ Math & Music). I ended up paying for a yearly subscription (worth it). Wish they didn’t get rid of the user comments/forum. I looked fwd to learning language + grammar tips from other users & the Moderators. Was IMMENSELY helpful since Duo doesn’t really teach much grammar. Only negative of the forums was some of the harsh complainers on there. Find another language app if you don’t like the German lessons taught in American English instead of British English. Duolingo is after all an American app (so naturally that’s the language they would use). They have always included the Metric system and the word “Euro” in their lesson plans anyhow. I see now they have added some British sayings (to their German lessons) after these few grumblers’ complaints. I’m ok w/ that. Fun learning some British sayings. : ) Developers, pls include maybe a section or link for more in depth grammar teachings / explanations on why we got something wrong. Also maybe some way we have a Notes Page on the app that we can jot down or save our notes, screenshots, etc. to for an easy, all in one location access. Thanks for all your hard work!

Merci beaucoup, Duolingo!!!. I am a language learner at heart; I started as a toddler learning Hebrew from my mom, then as a nine year old, I began 11 years of Greek study, learning both modern and koine Greek. Sadly, I never had a wonderful course to take. I did three levels of Rosetta Stone which gave me an incredible foundation, but it didn’t have a life like way of teaching the language and I had no one to speak with. Then I found Duolingo and completed the entire Greek course. Even though it wasn’t quite as well formulated as the Rosetta Stone, it was WAY more inspiring for some reason. Then, after I had the wonderful opportunity at a job that required speaking with Dutch children, I blazed a good ways into the Dutch course. However, I kept noticing though, how much better the course was in languages like French, Spanish, German and English. So one day I did the first lesson in French, just to see what it was like to hear a story in a different language that wasn’t a far fetched tourist robot sounding conversation about where the toilet was. That was 1,160 days ago. I’ve been learning French ever since. To top it off, I realized my great grandparents spoke fluent French and our family had let it die out to only English. Duolingo—It’s the best resource I have, and all my friends tease me about my learning obsession. Thanks Duo for inspiring my favorite language learning experience so far!!!

This is great to learn on. This app is a app to learn all kinds of different languages around the world plus you could also learn math and piano But the best part is that there is this thing called super duolingo and you have five hearts in total on normal duolingo so if you make a mistake you lose a heart and once you lose all your heart you have to practice to earn more hearts and on super duolingo there are no adds and you get infinite hearts and you could get a free trial for super duolingo only for two weeks! How does that sound? Good right? And every day you do duoling you get a streak but you have to get a full day streak by finishing your chests your chests are things that duolingo gives you like for example they would tell you to do duolingo for fifteen minutes or do one math or music lesson if your a beginner for duolingo then you get two chests if you have been doing duolingo for a long time then you get three chests and if you don’t finish all your chest but you get a little bit done then you get a streak freeze but if you don’t do your chest at all then you lose your streak and you have to restart everything and there is one more thing on certain languages you get a story or others things like that. So I basically told you all about duolingo so if you don’t know anything about this app and you want to learn all about it please look at this rating

Best Language Teaching app! Super Helpful and fun!. I wanted to learn Greek because, it’s in my culture and my realities and family know how to speak it. I searched for Greek learning apps and I stumbled across Duolingo. I made an account and started learned basics ( though I had experience I wanted to start from the beginning.) I got some things done and made it to checkpoint one, which took some days to complete the lessons. I took the test and failed, I tried again, Nope! Again I tried, but no success for me. I kept trying and eventually gave up but a few months later, I decided to start practicing again. I hadn’t used the app for MONTHS! And it was time to break the Non-Bilingual Wall. So I started it again yesterday and after leveling up on some things, I decided to try the test. I failed two times and then it said it wouldn’t be graded so I could just take it without hearts and stuff since I failed so many times. I took it and I finished and guess what? I PASSED!!!!!!!! I had no faith in my self and I gave up, but a little practice made it perfect. I continued practicing today and now I can speak in detailed sentences, and I know a lot more than before. I am even learning to write in Greek by solving the questions and taking courses. If you want to learn a language I recommend Duolingo, it has helped me come so far and I will continue to learn with Duolingo. Thank you Duo for helping me learn! ❤️❤️

Love the app but has some glitches. First, let me say that I love the app and that is can be used for free. Duolingo is making learning languages available to everyone and that deserves a round of applause. I took off one star, because there have been a number of glitches and/or errors in the program. There have been many instances when I have passed a lesson, earned the XP (points) but it doesn’t advance the marker on the path or it advances, but then immediately removes it and makes me start the lesson over again. This happens even when I get a perfect score on the lesson. I’m learning Japanese, and I have also found a number of mistakes in lessons. I didn’t trust my own knowledge, so I checked with more advanced language speakers, and they confirmed that they were errors in the app. For somebody who speaks the language, they would recognize it as a mistake, and it wouldn’t be a big deal, but for somebody who’s learning, it can really throw you off. Also, Duolingo sometimes updates the app, and when they do this they change your standing in the pathways, make changes to lessons you already completed, and alter the algorithm going forward which should be based on your prior learning. So, these are some small annoyances with the program. Unfortunately, there is also no opportunity to learn speaking in the Japanese program. But overall it’s a fantastic app to get you excited about learning a language.

Very good to start learning a language. Duolingo is very helpful to start a new language. It’s gamification makes learning more fun and makes me want to do my Duolingo every day. Streaks are also something I love and makes me want to get long streaks. Currently I have over a 600 day streak and have finished one course which is Arabic. One thing about some of the courses is that they don’t have much of a course. Some are short and some are way longer. Arabic was a decent course, but it wasn’t as long as French which I’m doing now. I’d recommend the Super plan, and if you have others in your family who can do Duolingo, you can get the Family Plan. The free version is good, but you have a limited amount of mistakes and if you run out of lives, you have to pay or wait. With the Super Plan, there are unlimited hearts. Super also has a practice area to help with revision. But that’s just some of what Super can do. You can probably find all the benefits on a Duolingo page online. The French course I’ve been taking has also helped with French class at school, and vice versa. Duolingo also has a thing called Leagues. Leagues are good in the beginning as a healthy competition, but higher up, it makes people do all the easy lessons, which doesn’t help with learning. So if you want you can turn Leagues off in the setting tab. Overall, I’d highly recommend this app to get and the Super plan too.

ONE OF THE BEST WOULD RECOMMEND, SOME SMALL SUGGESTIONS AND ISSUES. If you are just starting out on a language this is the app. You learn words effectively and it is very good at encouraging to learn. The unfortunate thing was it got very repetitive and takes some time to get through to learn new words. It was very good when I first started learning Norwegian or Norsk Bokmål. I got the basics but really just basics. Duolingo won’t make you fluent but it is a great starting place and language practice tool to have when first encountering a new language. Don’t expect yourself to learn an entire language with Duolingo alone but it is great when wanting to practice the language you are learning or getting a few new words. Once again, it doesn’t feel like you are making super fast progress or you have grown quickly but I always enjoying going on and practicing. Another problem is that I never really understood why something was some way and Duolingo did not really do a good job explaining the reasons behind something so I was left confused. The good thing is these questions can be answered on the forum that Duolingo provides. Also the pronunciation does not appear to be given. All you could do was hear the word but I could never tell if the letter “d” was pronounced at the end of some words or not. I had to learn this outside of Duolingo. To conclude this is SPECTACULAR language learning app and I recommend it for all who want to try a new language.

The heart system takes the learning experience away. I’m learning Spanish on this app. You can only make 5 mistakes or else you need to wait to have the heart restored to continue. Many times I just have a very small translation error in English which the translation is definitely still right but the app won’t accept my answer - then I lost a heart. I just don’t understand if it’s necessary to have the heart system if I really want to learn. You can have me watch those ads after each lesson, and I’ll still continue study on this app and spend more time on this app. But it just feels like I cannot make mistakes with the heart system. Like don’t we learn from our mistakes? Sometimes I’m learning a new grammar of course I’m going to make some mistakes. I don’t know which program manager of your team came up with this idea but this person should be fired. The original goal of this app to HELP people LEARN languages, but now with the heart system it forces people to spend less time on the app, cannot make more than 5 mistakes, and just give customers a ugly-looking feeling of just want us to look ads so you can make more money. Also, you need to make sure what you are teaching is at least correct. The present tense and normal tense is always messed up in this app. Many times the translation is in present tense but they want you to write Spanish in normal tense and vice versa. I’m not sure if this is helping people to learn or making them more confused.

Addictive and challenging. I have been impressed with how much I can learn, even without grammar explanations. The sentences (with translations) build up and if you go in order you can learn a lot. I came in knowing quite a bit of vocabulary but little grammar, so had to go back to earlier lessons and catch up, but it was possible and Duolingo is quite strict! I really like the way the content is specific to the language. I am learning Danish and it includes Danish cultural and geographic detail. This is not a cookie-cutter program teaching the same content for each language. (I wasn’t however thrilled with the lessons on boy/girlfriends moving in together, etc. Despite the initial email that “my child” was using the app.) Some of the English translations are a bit forced, but I have decided it is a useful feature, as that reinforces the grammar differences and is needed for translating exactly what the app wants into the target language. I supplement the app with reading/listening to materials without translation, as you can only get so far with translating, but you can learn a lot with words in context, and that is a huge benefit to the approach here. Other programs drill you on individual vocabulary words building up to a sentence. Duolingo gives you sentences with popup translations that let you learn how the word is used at the same time. Much faster. And much more variety. I am always surprised by new variations I haven’t heard before. Quite realistic!

Love the Accessibility. Duolingo is awesome. I took Spanish lessons for years in school from 7th grade to an advanced college level and if you don’t have time for that and/or don’t have the money for expensive programs like Rosetta Stone (whose free app I’ve also used and still prefer THIS!) Duolingo is great. It feels like you’re playing a game- which my ADHD brain loves and it uses a great way to immerse you without seemingly boring repetition. Also if you haven’t used the app in a long time/ start it with some basic knowledge you DON’T have to do the “Hello = Hola” thing and start all over again at square one. I’ve noticed some incredible improvements in the app’s interface using it on and off for years.. but the new subtle additions/ changes—especially if your iOS is updated—- Duolingo makes it easier than ever to remember to practice. I have dedicated 10 minutes a day for a week and feel my skills getting so much better already. I can not recommend this enough!! Out of all the apps I use, I have never left a review lol. But I feel so fortunate to be able to learn so many languages from a legitimate and advanced learning system for free!! I feel even the premium would be worth it for no ads and once I’ve kept up my streak for a little longer while I’ll most likely invest in it, but again I don’t think it’s necessary.

Useful if you’ve learned similar languages. This is my second foray into language learning via duo lingo. I’ve been going strong for 27 days. What is nice is the repetition and the gamification they use for motivating the user to keep going and think before answering is effective. One thing I will say however is that if I didn’t learn Spanish for several years I would find this much more challenging. I have a sense of the sentence structures, the cognates (e.g. el pollo is il pollo in Italian), and the pronunciations. I don’t think a user who has never learned this language would be as successful navigating the lessons because there is ultimately no “teaching” or guidance, not in the unpaid version at least. So you don’t get a sense of why/ how things are structured - I just happen to have that from previous language learning and can generally extrapolate my Spanish knowledge to Italian. I think the stories are a good feature. Also the unpaid version has so many ads- that’s annoying. I also don’t get the currency/ rewards- more gems for more ads I think? And the promise of AI makes me laugh because we know that’s not how any one learns a language- it’s through immersion, some direct or supported instruction, and through practice. If you’re thinking about using this- it’s a good supplement to ongoing language instruction. I would not consider it primary instruction- because as I said above- it does not do any teaching per sé.

Thank you for such an App. I’ve heard of Duolingo many times before and just thought of it as a pay to learn app without verifying if what I think is true. I found other apps to learn Arabic but deleted them because I don’t have a job yet and can’t pay at all. I also don’t like asking for money from my parents. (I don't hate my parents nor anyone else, I just don’t ask for money). Anyway, continuing my train of thought. Yesterday, ( Wednesday, February 21st), my sister convinced me to download DL to learn Portuguese. I had no intention of learning Portuguese but the opposite can be said for Arabic. I download DL and talk to my sister about it and she mentions the word, “Free”. Now, don’t take me as a stingy person, not willing to spend even a little bit of money but I just wanted to learn a new language since they only have Spanish, French and ASL at my school. (High school by the way). Now, I’ve found out about this wondrous app that’s completely Free and you only need commitment. You can’t expect to learn a language by learning a word every 5 days. In return for this Language App being Free, you have to show perseverance. You have to have a desire for learning what you want to learn. Now, I just want to say, I have nothing against people who speak Portuguese or want to learn Portuguese, I just wanted to learn Arabic to further myself in my Religion. Islam

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Harder work. It takes a while to learn the basics of languages such as Korean chinese or japanese. If you ever decide to learn all 3 of those it is hard to keep track with each one. Though many people may not be interested in learning all 3 or even any at all, I have been attempting to learn each and every one of those languages. I would appreciate it if languages like those were made so that the person trying to learn the languages would have to do more work in one session. Although there are fewer flaws, the flaws are pretty big which makes learning harder. You have to work terribly hard to do learn fewer phrases. I am currently learning chinese but it took me 1 1/2 unit’s to learn 5 numbers by heart. Duolingo makes up for these major flaws though by giving the user a fun way to learn a language. The gems and quests make using duolingo all the more intriguing and fun to do. Duolingo makes learning a language like a game and has super cute art styles and characters. I also love how the characters have different voices so you can get used to hearing a languages from people with other accents.

Pretty decent app. Like other people who have commented on the app, the ability to learn Japanese falls down on the ability for new learners to grasp grammar, as learning connecting particles is not emphasised enough, which is necessary if you want to alter a sentence. I also wanted to comment that use of speed tests in events can disadvantage people and there should be an option to complete them without a timer or with an extended timer. This would help people who require extra time to think about the question, and allow them to participate in the events, without causing them to not bother with them, because even though they know the information, they can’t input it fast enough to be within the time limit. This can be especially difficult for people who have disabilities, as fast response can trigger a freeze response and mental blanks. Yes, you can get extra time by using points, but considering this could largely affect disabled people who use the app, that isn’t particularly fair. For a positive though, I like that words are brought back throughout the learning process and so information gets reinforced.

Good app, a few flaws. Duolingo is a pretty sound app, however I do have a few small problems with it. The biggest annoyance in the game is the health bar system and the amount of leniency given towards typos. The idea of the health system is good for when you’re trying the new levels, as it encourages you to practice more if you keep stuffing up, but it shouldn’t be present in levels you’ve already completed that you’re actually TRYING to practice. Don’t get me wrong, the practice system is a good concept, but you know what you’re worse at better than a random question generator, losing health in these old levels just slows you down from learning. Of course, this would be a little less of a problem if it gave you more leniency in small typos like accidentally putting the i before the e, or if you accidentally add in a letter at the end. Losing health for small errors like this when you knew the translation is just frustrating Also, could you guys please add in some volume options? I love listening to music, and I do it whenever I’m anywhere or doing anything, so having to switch it off or have it constantly disrupted by the forced voice over for even the text sections is a giant turn off and all round inconvenience

Not enough gems. I have a 1261 day streak and have noticed something about the gems. For the first four hundred days, there were bonus crates at the start of every day that gave you a range of gems from ten to sixty. This was a really fun concept and it was always fun seeing what you got. Eventually, the developers did away with this and just gave you from ten to twenty gems at the end of each lesson. While not as good as before, this was still okay and a cool idea, it just did away with the whole element of choice. This also came with slightly reduced amounts of gems that you got for completing the quests AKA: get a 365 day streak. You still however got at least one hundred gems for beating these. NOW, however, (and the past 150 days) you are only given gems if you complete the daily goals, (you know what I’m talking about) and even when you do, you get a max of about eighteen gems, and that takes roughly half an hour to do. If you don’t do any quests, because your day was really busy, then bad luck, you get nothing. This update also came with A: a HUGE downgrade for beating the quests to only twenty to fifty gems and B: I was on level 51 one or whatnot, and yet now it removes all of the previous ones and condenses it down, so now I’m on level 12. All in all, I think it would be good to bring back more gems and give people more levels, since it used to be much more of a motive to actually do the Duolingo.

Path and learning ruined for free and paid subscribers. The path style before was 10 units and you knew what you were studying with each topic. The current path style is basically as though each topic has become its own unit, which also is wrong… on unit 15 “Say where people are from” I am learning about how people are feeling and I’ve notice this inaccuracy on other units. I thought maybe the second half prepares you for the first part of the next unit which ultimately makes no sense. So not only do the topics not match the units but there seems to be less reveals of the learned language so I can see what it means in my language at the end for further practice and I can’t go back over previous lessons because nothing matches with what or where it’s meant to be! So the only real point to Duolingo is the competitive side and the streaks which further take away from learning and make it feel more like a chore! Why, I ask, is the path not like it was before? Which is how it STILL IS on the web version? Which I would much prefer to use the app than go onto the web which I don’t always have access to… Thanks a lot Duolingo for making the process to learn a frustrating chore; from 5 down to 2… I recommend memrise - one off payment for life subscription and you know what you’re learning with real people and return to previous lessons selectively and more easily

Inconsistent Features, But Overall Amazing. As a free language learning service Duolingo is incredible. Over the past 6-7 months I have been learning German using primarily Duolingo, alongside other learning resources. However, most of this period has been on the desktop web version of Duolingo. When using the mobile app for Duolingo, I have frequently noticed inconsistencies with in-app features, across multiple devices and reinstalls. I use an iPhone 6S, and my mother uses an iPhone XR, and somehow this device difference means she has access to a practice skills lesson and I don’t? Also, my usetime for the app is restricted by health, whereas many other people I know are not restricted by a health bar. Recently, my app somehow started not having a health bar, but when I had to delete it and I reinstalled it, I suddenly have to deal with making < 5 mistakes while learning again. Another thing I have noticed, is a lack of extra information for each lesson. On desktop, I can right click the lesson and have access to a deeper written run through of the lesson, however on mobile, I have access to this extra information on less than half my lessons. Particularly, I am unable to view this on newer lessons I’m learning, and thus do not have extra context and information for new concepts. For what it is overall, Duolingo is an amazing app, especially when you consider its entirely free. However, this inconsistency is enough for me to rate it as 4 stars instead of 5.

A revelation, but not perfect yet. This app has opened up a wonderful world of language (Indonesian for me) allowing me to learn the basics of everyday survival over a year at 5-10 minutes a day - Amazing! Many times I’ve felt compelled to subscribe to the paid version, but have bailed out at the last minute due to the copious small faults in the lessons which threaten to overwhelm the experience. For example, while most lessons are well constructed and easy/moderate to complete, allowing swift progress, my current one is ridiculously complicated in comparison and has slowed my progress. There are also inconsistencies in translations throughout the app that result in dispiriting errors when I actually got it right with the same answer in previous exercises. Even the exercises with the most copious number of complaints seem never to be fixed. If there was evidence that clear errors would be attended to as a priority, I’d be much more inclined to pay. The free model has obviously been successful in creating this app’s footprint. I look forward to it being more consistently tidied up so that it can transition to a well-polished paid product.

Good but new update kinda ruins it. Don’t get me wrong this is a good app for language learning I would still recommend it the only big problem for me would have to be one of the new updates let me explain in the app there are leaderboards which are there to encourage people to not just practice every day but to practice as much as they can and it definitely works in fact I’ve been using it for a while and just got to diamond League the last one the issue is I’d usually do hard practice which gives you 20xp and then 10xp for a second time which worked great for a while but now when I’m on the last league they decide to make an update that replaces hard practice with legendary level which don’t get me wrong is a cool concept but the problem is that it’s a Duolingo + feature meaning that now I have to pay money to be able to stay on the leaderboards because now I can only do regular practice which gives half the xp it’s just really frustrating that after spending so much time trying to get to diamond league as soon as I’m there I can barely move up the leaderboards.

Duolingo is a Fun and Easy-learning App for Kids! TOTALLY RECOMMEND!!!!!. Omg, lemme just start off my saying… Duolingo is the absolute best language-learning app I have ever encountered! I joined recently (October 2023 and ps. I wrote this in November 2023) and I already am so obsessed with it! It functions like a game, with quests and fun leaderboards to challenge your friends or other people across the globe! I have already been using the Japanese I have learnt to communicate with people more clearly, and I absolutely love it! It consists of many types of learning sessions, like learning new words with pictures, saying the words, or writing the words. There are sooo many languages to learn, and you can complete more than one! I am very dedicated about getting log-in streaks, and you can even add pretty Duolingo widgets to your Home Screen! My younger sister even uses it, and she loves it like me. I think the Duolingo mascot is actually kind of cute, and during sessions, they provide you with so much inspiration messages! I heart Duolingo, and rate it an 11 out of 10! Ilysm Duo and I’ve even gotten some of my friends to join! 😍😍

⚠️DO NOT DOWNLOAD⚠️. My name is Sierra, age 27 and I’m from Mexico along with the rest of my family, all of us speak Spanish, except for my four year old daughter Dina and my husband Felix. One night Dina told me she wanted to learn Spanish and if I could teach her, I told her I would love to but I had to get to work and since her papa had recently been fired I had to work more in order to pay for everything we have. And unfortunately Felix isn’t from Mexico and doesn’t know how to speak Spanish. Dina started getting really upset after I had told her this but I was running late for work so I told her I would figure something out on my lunch break. So it was my lunch break and I was sitting on the couch with Dina trying to figure out a solution, finally after heaps of research I discovered this app, I started to look into it more and found that it was perfect. I told Felix to get it set up for her. I was back from work and I was making dinner. I was watching Dino on her tablet playing Duolingo when suddenly I saw her completely freeze, I rushed over and asked what was wrong, she told me that the app had told her she was going to die so I comforted her and quickly deleted the app. It was a horrifying experience and we never spoke of the app again. Was this a bug or something because I don’t know.

To sierra the person that wrote Duolingo 1 star. Duolingo is a highly effective and engaging language-learning platform that combines gamification with structured lessons. Its bite-sized exercises make it easy to fit into a busy schedule, and the app’s playful interface encourages users to keep coming back. The variety of languages offered is impressive, catering to both popular and niche options. Each lesson builds on vocabulary and grammar progressively, which helps reinforce learning. The interactive features, such as speaking and listening exercises, enhance comprehension and pronunciation skills. However, some users may find that the app's focus on vocabulary can sometimes overshadow deeper grammatical understanding. Additionally, while Duolingo is great for beginners, intermediate learners may need supplemental resources for more advanced language skills. Overall, Duolingo is a fun and accessible tool for anyone looking to start learning a new language or to practice their skills. Its community features and daily reminders help maintain motivation, making it a solid choice for learners of all ages.

Please remove the 5 daily hearts.. I’m learning Arabic currently and this is great for learning the sounds and letters. It’s a great starting point and I loved how they used to just put quick adds after every lesson if you didn’t have the premium, which I saw as more than fair. However now they’ve started adding 5 daily hearts (you loose a heart after every mistake) and once you’ve used them up you have to wait 5 hours for them to refill. What I loved about Duolingo is that it really did encourage free education, in place for a very quick add after each lesson that you could click off of after 2 seconds. However it seems now they’ve taken to the tactic of trying to pressure you to pay to get “unlimited hearts”. I know that they’re a company and they need to profit but surely they have plenty of people who pay premium and get more than enough money from add revenue. I even just saw one of their own adds “support free education, join premium” ...I mean.... doesn’t that contradict the add in itself? I’m just really disappointed that Duolingo has gone down this path by trying to force people to buy the premium version. It’s very disappointing because it is a great app.

Duolingo was better before the update.. Duolingo is a great app for learning basic sentences and words in other languages that can help you in the future and help you get a grasp of the language early on. I remember I always went on Duolingo everyday, excited to go on it and learn. From the new update, I’ve felt really demotivated to actually do any lessons. I had almost a year streak on Duolingo and I had lost it due to the fact that the new layout makes it so hard to keep track of everything. The layout previously, was very organised and well kept. The new layout on the other hand, is really disorganised and I don’t like the way they’ve set it out. I feel really unsatisfied with this new update and I think it would be better to change it back to the old layout where it is more efficient and made me feel a lot more motivated and happy to be learning. I also don’t like the fact that you get forced to read the stories. I liked it when you could choose if you wanted to read them. It’d be a little fun every now and then but now it’s just boring and it doesn’t make me feel like doing any of the lessons. Please change it back to the old layout. This app is still great, but I’m not learning as much as I could be.

I was a fan before the update.. I was using this app multiple times a day every day for over a month and couldn’t believe such a perfect app for learning new languages existed! I loved how clearly labeled the lessons were and how you could go back and revisit ones you had to work on a bit more and keep going over the same sections until you had grasped the lessons confidently. This update progressed me past lessons I had not finished and wasn’t confident in and the lessons aren’t labeled in any way that you can revise and work on areas you aren’t quite grasping. The update they have put out feels more like a downgrade. This new update has completely discouraged my learning and I’ve gone from well over a month of every day use and excitement to use the app to getting notifications about losing my streak and being out of the streak freezes and doing one lesson and refilling streak freezes. My progress isn’t very clear and when I get into a lesson I’m not ever entirely sure what the lesson is going to be about and struggle to prepare for it. I guess the app as it is now would have been fine if I had never used the the old dilungo although I’m not sure I would have stuck with it the way I’ve stuck with and loved the pre updated app. I very rarely purchase subscription to anything and I was looking at doing the yearly family subscription before the update. Unfortunately I’m looking into new language apps. It’s such a shame.

Possible money chasing or streak glitch. As a free to use language service I feel it is incredible and as it’s been upgraded the steps seem to fit perfectly for early stage learning (of learning Spanish for me) but the only downside for anyone who maybe has self diagnosed OCD and enjoys maintaining a streak there has been either a carefully inserted method of money grabbing or just a standard glitch that once your streak reaches higher numbers it may pretend like you didn’t follow the lessons for the day and require you to pay money to repair streaks. While I won’t pay I did find this disappointing as it even lets you open the prizes for completing your daily quota which means you've done the daily requirement yet you may still lose your streak. This has happened a few times to me through this and all once you reach a 30+ day streak. Small problem I know but this is aimed for people who may get anxiety from this sort of thing as I do just as a heads up, apart from that I really recommend this and it is a free service if you choose it to be and if you don’t mind supporting it and paying then no problems at all with the app

THE BEST!. So my dad found this game duo-lingo and my sisters and I started to learn French with him. A few days later we asked for duo-lingo. It asked us a few questions like what language you would like to learn and more. I choose Chinese and my sister choose French. But like after every lesson there was the same add that popped up trying to convince you to, get the super version. There are unlimited hearts so it does not matter how many mistakes you can make. In the limited version you get five hearts and when you make a mistake you get one less heart. My sister and I wanted to get the super version but my dad said no. But then he realised that he could do super family. Which is where you pay a little more and then up to six family members can be super. So basically this is a game that teaches you another language. I seriously don’t get why it is 4+ because you need to read some of the words. Over all it has already tout me so much and this is only my second day having this game. There is so much more that I can learn and I can’t wait.

Duolingo has changed my life!. About 8 months ago, I was recommended Duolingo by a friend. I began learning Norwegian on there, as I had interest in Norway and my friend was also learning it. I’ve learnt so much in such a short time frame! I never did well with languages at school, but this app has been amazing. There’s a great balance of repetitive learning with fun learning! With each lesson you get XP points there’s lots of cool features such as leaderboard’s, leagues and badges to earn depending on your XP points. You can also compete with friends! There’s also a streak system to keep you coming back to the app to learn more. The characters and graphics are so cute, and there’s so much extra info you can learn about the language, such as grammar, composition, context, etc. I’m also currently learning German and I plan on learning Vietnamese in the new year. The app is so motivating! Because of Duolingo I plan to travel to Norway and possibly study there! (Same with German) There’s so much to get out of this app! I could go on forever about Duolingo, but I’d say it’s one of my favourite things, so definitely give it a try.

I’m having some learning issues.. So I’ve been on Duolingo for about over two years now. After the overhaul of the entire app it has severely hindered my learning. Before the overhaul you could keep going through and advancing levels and repeat sections if you knew you were weak in those sections or just want to practice and refresh those areas. After the overhaul they just thrust you into the next section without the option to advance one section at a time. The lack of option to be able to use and repeat sentence structure and rules is genuinely frustrating for someone who likes to constantly practice. I’ve also noticed a difference between two languages and their tips section. I’ve recently started Russian after becoming comfortable enough in Italian and I’ve immediately noticed in some sections there not explanation of sentence rules or structure for Russian as there was for Italian. In the tips sections for Russian there is literally just phrases and conversations with no explanation for why or how certain words or phrases are used. It’s pretty strange being told to use these phrases instead of their literal meanings and/or how they’re structured.

Love the app! ( Please Read ). I Love the health bar love when it tells me I’m failing and not to fail again cause I don’t have many lives absolutely 10/10 never thought I’d learn a language but this app makes it super fun this game is not a cashgrab at all I recommend this game to everyone!!! I put one star so they would read my review My idea - To fix the streak problem everyone has in the reviews Make it so every 7 days or so when they complete a unit they get 5 gems every time or something So on the 7th day they get 5 gems completing a unit Day 8 they get 5 gems for completing a unit Day 9 and so on and so forth Cause gems are hard to come by but you don’t want it to hard to get them as well like it is now ( Gotta complete those legendary challenges ) Leagues - I still don’t understand why they’re a thing it’s not really like clash of clans Only reason I think for leagues. is if you battle someone like can you beat this person in a Spanish battle, otherwise it’s pretty useless it’s like look I practice more then you haha but I don’t have to prove I’m good at it Also needs a pet this game so people know why the health bars there I recon Feed it with words level it up things like that make it fun make it battle in ( French Oder German ) leagues Ahh you taught me that. ^ -ja, Duolingo ist sehr Gut -

Hey Duo! Just requesting one thing! 🦜. I have heard about this app and I was interested the moment my brother told me about it. One day when I go to Italy I can speak the language! 🍀 love you so much Duolingo please reply. ———————————————————————— Hi again I wrote that review the day I downloaded Duolingo. I have kept my streak and I won’t lose it. I now have a request and I really hope you consider it. Fingers crossed you see this. Well, My mother was born in Croatia and I love the country. I go every year. I came across ‘Croatian’ isn’t added and I was quite concerned as it is a beautiful language and I would love people all over the world to learn it. Well I know you would. Duolingo I rely on you to change the world and let people learn this splendiferous language. Please, I beg you. Hey, I do my Duolingo every day. Please think twice about it. There isn’t anything wrong with this app. I just ask for an addition to it. You’re perfect Duolingo pls put Croatian But I don’t know what to say you deserve recognition and the widget it adorable when I’m on my phone duo looks so happy and when I haven’t done my streak yet he looks sad so I feel bad and do my Duolingo without any slight hesitation. I love how in the morning he goes ‘Alissa please do your Duolingo you might make me cry 😭’ Sorry I lost my train of thought 💭 Anyways please add Croatian 🇭🇷

Good App!. Ok. We all can see not only in the actual app profile on the App Store, but the actual game, that the animations are ADORABLE!!! The ability to be able to text with the animations in your selected language is so amazing and fun. But obviously with good comes bad, I really am not talking about the ads that you have to watch, but how, if you don’t buy the premium version they make your life a disaster. My hearts almost every 20 minutes get lost, and I know you might say I need to practice but, they make the practice tests for extra hearts take forever and then when you get an answer incorrect it jumps you back 3 whole inches!!! The books that there is are so cute, however you need HEARTS to read them. I’m sorry but what do I do? If I can practice for a heart but it takes 7 years to complete, well my hearts would have filled up by then. Now, I’m done with my critic. Overall suggestions. I think that everyday we should get gems, the amount of times I end up with ten after not continuously playing every day for 7 days... The game may be more enjoyable if we had: 1. More hearts or 2. Unlimited hearts (like the p r e m i u m users). Honestly I love this app apart from (some) fault so really I’ll give this app a 4/5 or 8/10. <3

A few irritating things, but pretty good. To start off, the features are really good. Many languages are there, so you don’t need to worry about a language not being there. There’s practices, feeds, quests and streak freezes, etc. Despite all these amazing features, it needs a few improvements. Sometimes when you make a typo, it says that the answer is wrong. Other times, it says you have a typo. This might not be the games fault, which is acceptable. But please add more space to add more streak freezes! Sometimes (or pretty likely) you’ll have a stressing day, and you have to do Duolingo. You obviously wanna get it over with because you don’t always wanna do the lesson, but you only have 1/2. Moving on, you should add a feature for recording your voice to help people pronounce the sentence, because the only thing you can do it match and translate the word/sentence. If they pronounce something wrong, you make them pronounce it again. Overall, this app is really good! I enjoy it most of the time, and the features are super unique.

Best app ever do not ever change it!. This app is so good! You need it! This app is best for learning Spanish and other languages, I love it! Duolingo is very great to learn languages just you can’t learn any better! But I liked it better before the update just saying if there was a ten star I’d totally do that but going though the update made it a bit harder for me to learn I mean, I was in unit one and then when the update came I was suddenly in unit 11. I thought there was only 20! I’m just going to say that this app changed a lot of my Spanish. Now I speak to my friends in Spanish cause they do it too! Now I just can’t think of anymore things to say that is great about this. It’s just so good I even reached a 57 day streak. Until I went on holiday… now I’m trying to get it back. Also just saying that the cute little animations a SO CUTE! DON’T TELL THE PEOPLE THAT HATE THE UPDATE WHO CARES ABOUT THE UPDATE CARE ABOUT THE LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT!!!!!!!Thanks for this Intermediate English is so poggers (like 2 years later lol. I made it up to a 100 day streak but then i forgot to to my Spanish lesson. Oops.) (Also my past self thought the old version was good. I understand better now and I think it’s kinda cool.)

Health bar. I do four languages daily on Duolingo. However I dislike the way the health bar can block you out of all languages if you make 5 mistakes. I only allow myself a certain amount of time each day to study and if I get blocked out I can’t get back enough health in that day to continue. Previously I just used to swap languages so I could continue to get my quota and also regain a bit of health. I was happy to pay for the plus subscription to get rid of the ever increasing adverts but I am not going to pay for new health. Please do something about this as I am getting very disheartened by this app. However I do like the Owl popping up and giving me words of encouragement. In case I didn’t press send the other day with the above I’m sending it again. I am totally fed up with the current format of Duolingo. I keep getting blocked from continuing and am seriously considering giving Duolingo the flick. I have been doing four languages faithfully nearly every day and I really enjoyed it. I am also mad that I took the decision to buy a subscription. If I cannot do my quota of Duolingo every day maybe I will make the same effort to complain everyday. Does anyone actually read these comments and does anyone ever think to reply............

Has potential but too much frustration and thus far too expensive. Encountered quite a few problems while trying this out … For a common language like Spanish, and an app that has been around for years, there are too many errors present in the lessons themselves eg. Marking an answer as wrong when you gave the exact same answer that duolingo presented as a question earlier, and worse, offering as the correct solution a word/phrase that was never introduced in the lessons (eg. marking “tu eres una mujer” incorrect and offering “usted es una mujer” as the correct answer). I “reported” heaps of errors. I got offered a time challenge several times and accepted every time and it never once happened, the app just switched to the leaderboard. Weird stuff happens in all the “gamification”, such as having to click on “claim reward” multiple times and the received gems goes up each time you click. I was forever wondering if the app was working correctly. I’m all for supporting a free version through ads but you really take it to the extreme. Plus sometime I didn’t receive the promised “reward” for watching an ad (eg. a heart) The sound effects in the “stories” playing back at an ear-splitting volume. No ability to delete my profile. Ultimately it was just a painful experience. I could go on but I think you get the picture and I’m not getting paid to fix your app for you.

Fix your lessons.. It is so obvious you only care about money, when users have been complaining about new words and phrases in their review lessons for weeks now. The German course is completely ruined because of this. I don’t even feel confident enough to try and master a level anymore because every time I review a lesson you throw new words, phrases and sentences at me and it’s happened during challenges as well it’s completely unfair. To be quite clear I’m not sure how talking about when a store is open or if someone would like to play soccer at three correlates to using accusative case & describing language skills it makes zero sense. It makes less sense when it’s a part of my “personal training” level. How can it be training when it hasn’t even been taught yet? I’m two whole levels ahead going back to try and golden my lessons and that is what I’m met with? New words, phrases and sentences that weren’t even taught in the next two levels is bad design. Also side note: 100 gems per challenge is insane considering how many gems you can earn a day is so little. (You also never gave users their gems back when you had the glitch that required you to complete the challenge twice before it would register.) It’s not free and easy learning for everyone when all of these mistakes exist.

Duolingo is an awesome app. Duolingo is an awesome application with a large potential, and the point is that it’s free and developers don’t cut the functions to earn more and i really respect that. But the way it works is quite monotonous and tiring, after some exercises it feels boring, I’d rather it to be more interactive with a bigger attention to words and grammar. It’d be nice if Duolingo would produce a higher level than B2, there’s no C1-C2 modules in the most of the languages and the most of the languages have the basic English support with no grammar blocks, which is bad. And also it’d be great if Duolingo would produce interactive language certificates after completing the courses, to make it more useful and to demonstrate your language skills when and if it’s necessary. It’d be great if some other languages would be added, like: Icelandic, Old Norse, Swiss German, Afrikaans, Yiddish and others, to make this app more and more special. Also, it’d seem much better if more social activities would be added, like possibilities to chat with friends, to create communities and to find practice partners by native languages.

A BUG THAT NEEDS FIXING. Hello Duolingo, this is a personal problem that I’m not sure if other people struggle with, but I am decently far along my duolingo journey and have noticed that, although I have multiple stories available for me to practice, I seem to only be able to practice the first four that I unlocked. And ever since (for about 1 or 2 months now)that has happened, I have only been able to practice those four (I usually have about 15-25 stories) I have tried everything; reloading the app, restarting my iPad and even updating both the app and the iPads iOS, nothing has helped. Again, not sure if this is a fault on your end or mine, or my iPads or something that I may have missed, and I’m not sure if this has ever occurred to others. Please respond to me with a solution of possible. (Also don’t take this the wrong way I love learning French with Duolingo it is very helpful for my studying and at home practice and apart from ads, I really do think that duolingo is a perfect app for learning a language) ⚠️edit! I do want to say that I also have lost about 3 units worth of learning, which was months of hard work and effort, just to lose it all again. I’m not sure exactly at what point this all went down, but it’s very disappointing.

Practically Perfect. I really like Duolingo. It is really great and I have been learning French with it. I have learnt lots of words and I can speak a few sentences in French. It makes learning fun and there are lots of activities. I love the little characters that help you learn. I have learned a lot of things and I have only been doing it for 24 days! If you get it I recommend getting the widget because it really helps. I only have 2 things to fix. Firstly, I wish that the normal Duolingo could get you more. Super gets you quite a lot and mega is great but normal does not get much. I think it should get a bit more. My second thing is that I think it shouldn’t take as long to earn full hearts. If you make 5 mistakes, you can’t play for 12 hours until you get full hearts or you have to do 5 fifteen minute practices! I get the lives thing and I understand it but I think it should take maybe at maximum 5 hours to earn full hearts. 1 hour for each heart. Besides that I think it is great and definitely helpful for learning how to speak many languages ~ #FluffyUnicorn age 9

Mew update has changed the way the app can be used. While I like the new update in principle - it makes the learning journey seem more fun and makes progress more clear - it does allow me to continue using duolingo the way I had been, and in my opinion lessons now tend to be far too easy. In the past I would skip ahead to level 4, and then work my way to level 6 one lesson at a time, and this worked quite well for me as I would have to actually think to answer the questions. I would also focus on the parts of the course that I found more difficult, while skipping further ahead on things I found easier or that did not really interest me. With the new design you can’t do this, though. You are locked in to a single path, and must complete the lessons at all levels, with few options to skip the easier levels (of the same lessons). While I don’t mind the multi choice comprehension questions (although they are a bit easy) I really hate the questions where you just arrange words. I feel like I get nothing out of them, and if anything they harm my learning because I am not thinking between different translation options. I would really appreciate it if there were a way to turn off the “order the words” questions! I also liked the speech versions of the stories which are now gone. Otherwise, I see how this new version can be great for people new to duolingo, even if it is frustrating to those who have already started to use it in a particular way!

Why Duolingo SLAYS!!. Firstly, Duolingo offers many languages to learn if you want to be fluent or just learn the basics. From Spanish to French, you name it! The only language I want it to add is Tagalog. Anyways, no other language learning app has that much variety to choose from. I highly recommend Spanish! I am totally addicted to Duolingo. Furthermore, Duolingo lets you follow other people, make friends, join leagues and even read blogs made by professionals! You can earn gems by completing goals, and if you want to pay, you can get Super! But if you work really hard, they can reward you with three days of Super Duolingo! Duolingo is unquestionably and undoubtedly the best! You can even customise your avatar! Duolingo also helps with goal setting. With Duolingo ,you are a step closer to being fluent in a foreign language. Moreover, Duolingo makes it easy and fun to learn a new language. It’s more engaging than other language learning apps. Need I say more? If yes, then read on. It even says on Google that Duolingo is one of the best learning apps. Don’t believe me? Check it out for yourself! And while you are at it, download Duolingo! In conclusion , Duolingo is vital because it offers many languages, it’s engaging and you can follow other people. Duolingo slays!

$270 per year and still attempting to manipulate us into spending more. This is a well crafted and helpful app, and I am very happy to spend $270 per year for it (which I do), because it is, aside from the issue below, very well done and effective. However, I find it deeply troubling that this business constantly attempts to manipulate users into spending even more by “buying gems”. We all know what a lucrative revenue source this is for apps - we also know this is a shady practice, particularly when young people are a major customer base. Taking users all the way through “events” then at the last minute ramping up the difficulty and repeatedly suggesting they buy gems for time extensions at exorbitant prices is very sleazy. I work in tech so I am aware of these practices but other people aren’t and end up spending money they don’t have with manipulative gamification. I know the person who will be responding to this review won’t be responsible for this revenue strategy so I’m sorry for the negative energy… but please pass this higher up the chain if you can. It comes across SO badly. I would happily spend $300/year on this app - but I find this very off-putting. It’s a shame considering what a great app it is in every other respect.

#1 best language app. Okay for starters Duolingo offers pretty much every and any language there is (even fictional languages such as Klingon) the app makes the languages easy to learn and if you continue with the same sections until all the lessons are completed you remember phrases and words very easily. Other alphabets such as Greek or mandarin teach you the alphabet as well. It does not require money to pay for but does have in app purchases same as unlimited hearts, oh I have forgotten to mention that there are hearts in game but they do recharge, the hearts make you think more about submitting your answer. There are also monthly challenges and leaderboards, the higher you climb the more gems you collect to buy things in the game. You also have a streak where you also earn gems for things, the streak keeps you going and the longest streak I know was 1000 days. In total Duolingo is a very good app, download if your are visiting a country, doing language in high school or just wanna learn a language.

Slowly getting worse. Duolingo is an enjoyable app to use and has always been pleasant despite the abundance of ads. Recently they added in “hearts” which will shatter when you get an answer wrong, then you have to “refill” said hearts by purchasing them with in app currency known as “gems”. These gems can be earned by completing lessons, but of course you can also buy them. Your hearts will regenerate over time but your max is five at a time (i.e. five mistakes). Basically, this means now you will be spending less time on the app unless you are an ace at the language you are learning, or if you refill your hearts. Personally, I don’t even spend my gems on hearts because I don’t really want to support a system like this. Though if I did, I wonder how long it would take me to deplete all my gems, leaving me with the only option of buying them. It’s safe to say that this addition of hearts is disappointing and the decision to do so was clearly driven by money. I understand that it’s a free app, but I’m sure they’re making a decent amount from the number of ads in their app. I give Duolingo a 3/5. Unfortunately this score doesn’t regenerate.

Streaks need to go!. I love Duolingo, it’s great for language learning and the theme of the app is both cute and neat. The only thing I’m going to say is that you need to stop the streaks. I don’t need to wake up every morning being stressed over losing my streak, because I have system when learning a language that I go on Quizlet and try to memorise the alphabet. This usually happens every second day and my streak would obviously break. The constant reminder that I can’t lose my streak is stressful and pressuring and language learning is supposed to be fun and something that eases my mind because I enjoy it. I understand it’s more motivating for people who use the app to complete a daily lesson and therefore higher profit, but I think there should be an option to remove the streak or keep it. There’s obviously other people like me and the word needs to be spread so Duolingo can finally make a move. I don’t know if they have in the past but they kept the streak anyway, but I don’t like it and out of millions who use the app, I’m not the only one. Thank you.

Duolingo is the BEST!. Everyone in the reviews is doing a language course or have finished their language course but something about me and Duolingo is that I’m doing a music course because I’m looking forward to being a game developer and have good music in the game at the same time because right now, I don’t make good music. I’ve seen myself make music and listen to it on GarageBand. Anyways, it’s helping me do two things. Its main focus is helping me read music, and I’ve already figured out a thing or two about reading music. The notes inside the lines go bottom to up in this order: F, A, (high) C, and (high) E, they spell FACE, but in Duolingo, they go: D, F, A, (high) C, (high) E. You’re looking at Duolingo’s version? I know what you’re looking at. The ones with the lines CROSSED through them are E, G, B, (high) D, and (high) F, but in Duolingo, there is still that invisible line that makes middle D EXIST and it is crossing into middle C, so it goes C, E, G, B, (high) D, and (high) F. The second thing it taught me is a little bit of better music, and I found that out by going on GarageBand and playing a little tune with chords with the MOD all the way up, on Learner’s Piano, and it sounded AMAZING! Also, the artstyle is great, the sounds are great, the lessons are great, the courses are great, except my son can’t friend me. How to fix this? I don’t know! Not even the text message route works.

Best App to learn or improve your language. I hardly give a review because first of all, it takes time to write a good review and sometime I just submit start without writing a comment but this time I had to write a review to this APP I don’t know how to start but I want to say thank you for all the amazing, talented and genius individuals who have created this application. Duo is my best friend, I know him for many years now, even though I have not been practicing for a long period of time, he was still in my heart. This app has helped me improve my English to the point that I’m feeling really confident when I have a conversation with native English speakers. I had to write this review because Duo deserve this recognition, everything it just perfect there is nothing I can complain about or ask to be changed. DUO is the BEST. What I love the most(+++) is the widget, so funny and cute at the same time, when I forgot to play my serie during the day Duo looks so sad, sometimes it cry, or it send me notifications to remind me to come practice or I will lost my serie and if it happens that I do not want to play or I’m really busy it just sends me email saying that “ DUO Miss you he wants you to practice “ and when I finally open the app to practice a new language he looks so happy and on the clouds …. I have so many good things to say about this APP ( GAME-CHANGER). Thank you 🙏❤️

Very Unhappy, cancelling duo+ subscription. I love Duolingo and have found it extremely helpful in learning several different languages, however I’ve just opted the app pm my iPad and the layout has finally change. I’ve been seeing the new layout on my mum’s phone and other users screenshots etc. for a few months and have been extremely happy I didn’t have the update yet as it looked horrible. But now the update is finally here and I’m not happy at all. I cannot see myself using the app looking like this. It’s awful and the first design choice of any app that I have whole heartedly HATED. I have no idea where I’m up to and even though my Rogers’s has been “saved” it’s also been simplified to baby level which actually makes it more difficult to figure out. Now my lessons don’t even have titles so I’ll have no idea what I’m about to learn and whether I want to focus on a different topic until I’m ready to move on etc. I am also a Duolingo plus subscriber however I will be CANCELLING MY SUBSCRIPTION TO DUOLINGO PLUS as I don’t want to pay for this horrible new design that I’m sure will result in me not using the app very often if at all. I will continue to use the app on my phone as it hasn’t received an update yet but as soon as it does I’m not sure if I’ll ever keep Duolingo downloaded on any device.

A great learning App. Duo is a fantastic learning app. I’m currently on a 1505 day learning streak learning to speak and understand Italian. The app has helped me get started and honour working on my goal, daily. The gamification makes learning fun and easy, the characters are great. I’ve also started the music course and practise both Italian and Music daily. I really appreciate the learning opportunity the Duo Team have put together through this app. And I also understand that someone needs to pay for the continuous development of this app. And if you’re using the free version, your tuition is subsidised with ads. Usually the ads are short and this has been much appreciated as it allows me to spend more time learning. However this week I’ve noticed the ads are much longer (about 30 secs each), harder to click away from, and it’s taking my attention away from learning. I have paid for Duo in the past and the SuperDuo is great. Temporarily, however, I’ve reverted back to the unpaid version. It’s a tricky situation as Capitalism is getting in the way of serving the greater good, but if the length of the ads could be reconsidered - short, sharp, and to the point as at the end of the day, Duo is about the opportunity to learn so let’s have more of this and less distraction via ads, please.

Please download this game😎😁. Very great. I love the different types of ways that you can learn languages, it’s interesting and fun. Since I am a grade 5 girl, this is quite enjoyable for me to do after school and on weekends. The challenges and the leaderboards are a great way to get me engaged with learning languages. One problem, I know it’s a cool idea to have hearts (lives, every time you mess up you loose one heart) and all but… what if you just want to enjoy the game and learn new skills, just learn from the mistake. I mess up a lot because I’m learning a difficult language and in like 30 minutes I’ve lost my hearts and can’t practice any more. But I do like the idea of practicing for hearts and the free trials to the ‘Super Duolingo’ but what if you just want to learn and your OUT OF HEARTS. It’s frustrating sometimes, but then I guess it teaches people to try not to mess up. Any way, thanks for reading this. Please reply back as I am curious to know what you think of this review. But this new Home Screen really not a fan of it. It’s so confusing on where I’m up to I really want the old one back.

Good for learning languages, Bad at registering my lessons. This app is amazing and useful when it comes to language learning but there are certain aspects that should be tweaked. First, registering lessons. I sometimes do five lessons and it only registers three. I was also doing a friend quest and we failed it because one lesson did not register and we were one off. Could the developers please fix this bug? Next, the league system is very cruel. For those who don’t know anything about Duolingo, the league system is essentially the place where all the XP that you earn goes towards. There’s a promotion zone (you try to advance as much as you can) and a demotion zone, which I think is very unfair. I was demoted recently just because there was assessment block and there was no time for Duolingo. I was wondering if you could purchase a ‘league freeze’ item to pass one or two weeks. This also helps people that are going on holiday or will not have time to practice. Despite these issues, Duolingo is a very fun and interactive app for language learning and I would recommend it to anyone.

One improvement and one suggestion. So I love this app and I try to keep my streaks going as long as possible but some days (usually when I learn in the morning)it saves my progress but doesn’t continue my streak. It’s kind of annoying. I think it might have something to do with the timing because when I do it in the night, it’s totally fine. Another thing is that when I learn in the morning, it still comes up as perfectly fine, the fire is lit for the entire day until the next day where it comes out that I didn’t do anything that day. But regardless, I love this app so much and I play everyday, it helps me practice my French and the fun of playing a legendary round is awesome. I think you should get this app because it has helped me learn some things (but it is useful to live in a country that speaks the language you are trying to learn). Just a suggestion, maybe it could add an option that allows the users to create their own language and learn it like any other. The user might also be able to share the language with friends and let them learn it as well. Overall, I love this app!

Please. I like the app in general and by it’s concept, and at first it was really fun to do, but the practice to earn hearts option has disappeared for me, and I’m sure, for many others. Practice to earn hearts allows free app users to practice their previous words instead of any of the monetized options and I really rely on it to go over my words as well as get back to a full 5 hearts. It’s gone for me now and I feel like the fun of Duolingo is being sucked out. I can’t scroll down to the words I want to revise because they are too far down and don’t give you a chance to use them in context. Also, the hearts were a big part of my routine. I’m also quite a forgetful person and over the past few days I’ve actually tried avoiding doing my Duolingo at times because it gives me anxiety and a weird feeling when my long lived habits are gone and I have to change them. I’m sure others may feel the same about this issue. Now the feeling of not being able to regenerate my hearts impacts my lessons and I end up subconsciously holding my breath or breathing faster when I do my lessons. It’s kind of stressful and I really want the option back.

Good App Getting Worse. I have been using Duolingo now for almost 5 years and I have finally given up. When I started it was a very simple and free app, there were only two voices and the lessons were incredibly simple. Now there’s a cast of incredibly patronizing characters that speak to me like I’m a child in incredibly annoying voices. I should say, I’m speaking of the Spanish course in particular. There is no option to turn all these silly voices off and one of them for some reason is a perpetually unenthusiastic emo girl, one day I got something wrong because she said she was excited in an I assumed she wasn’t based on her tone. The cartoon owl is annoying enough but at least in the early days you could turn him off. It’s also getting worse with the free version off the app, when I started there was ads but no love hearts, you could practice all day, now I can only use it for 30 mins at most before I run out of hearts and have to wait. It seems as though their plan is to make the free version so frustrating that you HAVE to upgrade. In fact most of the ads are urging you to upgrade. I guess that need to pay all of the animators for all their unnecessary work. I’m done, I’ve found an app that treats me like an adult. Good luck to you reading and I hope you get more out of the app than I did.

It’s ok, but needs work. Duolingo at first is a fun app that teaches you languages and more by only learning for 3 minutes a day. But, after a 30-60 day streak, it gets really boring and the issues with the app start to become more noticeable. First of all, this app introduces so many different things all at once. I’m at a 499 day streak, and whenever I do a lesson I only understand about 50% of it. This app also has a really stupid heart system, where if you make 5 mistakes, the lesson ends and you have to wait until tomorrow to do another lesson. The main issue with this is that if you run out of hearts during a lesson and you exit the lesson, that does not contribute to your daily streak. There are only 3 ways to bring back your hearts. The first way is to do a practice lesson. Practice lessons are easy, don’t take up hearts, contribute to your streak, and if you do one you get 1 heart. However, practice lessons can turn a 3 minute lesson into a 10 minute lesson, and they don’t progress you through your course at all. The second way is to buy a subscription to Super Duolingo, or Duolingo Max. And the third way is to spend money on micro transactions. I hate this system so much and it needs to be removed.

Is this really the most useful?. Hi guys, when I first downloaded this app I was really happy when it came to my confidence slowly growing and I was thinking to myself I could actually learn Japanese. Then I came across a little problem, the way the app teaches you is you don’t learn how to construct sentences which is vital when learning any language, but instead you learn the common phrases. And I bet there are thousands of common phrases that this app could force you to memorise along with the minimum standard of 2,000 kanji characters. I find that this is the least effective way of learning a language such as Japanese especially when your first language is English. If it were me I would teach the basic alphabets (hiragana and katakana) teach them a few basic words and then teach them how to construct basic sentences instead of having them memorise literally thousands of phrases, then they begin learning kanji and then more complicated sentence structures and then the rest is is just expanding their vocabulary. I find that this method is easier more effective and quicker when learning literally any language. And if people are facing similar issues with other languages I would like you to consider doing a huge overhaul over all of your language courses. Until then I will be trying to find someone or something which could make learning a language easier, thank you.

Duolingo: Download this app if you want to learn a new language. Duolingo is a beautifully crafted app, that teaches language in a fun way. The app is easy and has a variety of methods of learning such as: reading, audio books etc. The app rewards you for showing up and learning helping you keep motivated to speak the language of your choice. Duolingo also adds friendly competition in the form of a rank system. Where you get promoted to a higher rank if you have one of the top 15 xp scores. You collect xp from completing courses; again bringing another motivation to keep you on track. If you were to force me to tell you something bad about this app I would struggle. The only thing I see that could be improved is: Not making people subscribe to Duolingo plus to get the 14 day free trail. A lot of companies do this and I think you shouldn’t have to give your bank details for something that is free. But I digress, the app is a great language learning tool and premium doesn’t determine your learning success. But premium is like a tutor: you pay for extra help. I could go on about how having limited hearts without duolingo plus is a good thing but this review is long enough. Good luck to those learning a new language! Au revoir

BRING BACK CONVERSATIONS, please.. Hi, I have been a user of Duolingo for many years and when you got rid conversations I was devastated and noticed my ability to learn languages decreased drastically and I found my motivation levels to drop rapidly and I just didn't want to use the app anymore. I found the 'conversation' using AI 'people' conducting these conversations with you was a great way for me to grasp how to construct sentences and apply the words I had learnt during recent lessons. I really like the addition of 'stories' in the new updates of Duolingo, but I wish that Duolingo had BOTH stories and conversations, I love both and they teach in different ways than just lessons. I am a disappointed customer asking the developers to bring conversations back, I dearly liked conversations and I dearly like stories I don't like how the developers keep trading off first, conversations for, I believe it was, practicing, then practicing for stories. I really liked all of these but found conversations to be the best learning tool for me and then stories and then practicing to be the least helpful in my quest to be bilingual and to be able to use the new language in real life in a real context. So please, developers I ask you to bring back conversations. Just please don't take stories too.

Stop teaching the Canadian-French dialect and German plural-you. Please use Mainland French and employ French educators, not Canadians, who don’t use North American colloquialisms and words. French speakers from France use UK English words that a lot more similar to French. Babbel has an option to chose either American or British English. Please do the same. The German plural you: As English doesn’t have a plural you, except in some North American colloquial slang like you’all, please note this in exercises somehow. The German “Sie” seems to come up a lot but I can imagine it’s used as rarely as English. This is a constant cause of confusion for English speakers without “you - all” being included in answers. I’ve just started Portuguese and the app is very poor with all sorts of reportable glitches. The worst is that some of the sentences are non sensical. As with French, please provide a selection option for mainland Portuguese or Brazilian speakers. I’m sure A.I. can easily do this. But thanks for the app, I’ve used it for 10 years now. It took 10 years for you to finally create a pop up notification for night owl chests the following morning (and the same for early bird), so I suppose I’ll wait another 10 for other improvements to the app that I’ve suggested. There is no way I would pay for your app given all the issues above, and seemingly poor staffing levels, so please stop forcing us to watch your promotional video each time.

Not enough attention to fixing bugs. I have been subscribing to this app for 6 years, of which the last 2 as a paid member (Super Duolingo) but in all of the years I have used it, there have never been so many bugs as lately. And having bugs is one thing, but being completely ignored when you report them is another thing. Even though Duolingo advertises with ‘follow friends you will be more successful’, since November last year I have not been able to follow friends (initiate to follow) or follow friends back. I have reported this every couple of weeks since December and heard nothing back. I have had error messages of which I have sent screenshots to Duolingo, I have ‘bought’ upgrades to get 30 minutes double points instead of 15 minutes, only to get a message ‘sorry your reward is not available right now, try again later’. I have also reported this a few times and heard nothing back. There are very frequent upgrades, to fix bugs but none of them have fixed my problems. I will go back to being a free, unpaid user again as Duolingo doesn’t seem to care about people paying $130 per year for this app!

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please take off hearts.. i loved this app so much! it was a great way to learn a language without any pressure, and it made learning fun too! but then you added the hearts. the WORST thing you could do. please take them off! you’re literally holding people back from learning! punishing them if we get it wrong, OF COURSE WE ARE GOING TO GET THINGS WRONG, we are literally learning a new language ON AN APP. anyways, please take them off! :(

Take away the hearts!. I love Duolingo- or at least I used to. The health bar is awful and totally ruins the entire app. I don’t know why they did this and sincerely hope they take it away!

Great app, plagued by ads and money-grubbing scheme. Tl;dr – Great app to learn but only if you pay subscription. As a free user, you can get away with learning the basics before it gets too tiresome with all the ads and waiting for hearts (lives) to restore. Long version: This is my first time using Duo, the lessons are designed beautifully, and the gamification helps add fun to the learning. But, like so many other reviews have mentioned, the heart system and countless ads ruined the free user experience. You can get upto 5 hearts and even a simple mistake such as choosing a different verb form results in loss of a heart. As others have said, this puts the pressure on learner and it becomes more about getting the right answer through the system instead of learning. I don't think you can learn much in the free version, specially when difficulty of lessons increase as you progress in the course. You'll end up giving up instead of waiting for hearts and ads to finish. This is ironic considering that the founders of Duolingo built this app with the idea of free education. It doesn't seem like that's the point anymore.

Very good. 5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Why Duolingo plus?Microtransit actions annoyances. This app is the best free language learning app at most, it’s heart system where you lose a heart each time you fail a question and then a whole lesson.And the only solution to this problem for us is to buy Duolingo plus to have infinite hearts.This honestly sucks cause you have to pay for it monthly or whatever just to learn a proper language or wait a few hours every day to get one or two hearts.Thanks Duolingo

New path update sucks. Give us the option to change back. Really bad new update. I thought it wasn’t so bad until I went to my first units I already did and boom there’s words I haven’t even learned yet. Also lost my august challenge progress with the update too. I don’t know if I have to go back so I don’t get screwed over for not understanding words that mysteriously popped up or if I’m just gonna have to give up the app and look for something else. Between how gamified this app is and this massive obstacle, I’m discontinuing my massive streak and looking for another learning app. I feel like everything I worked for was pretty much thrown away and I don’t wanna be working on a n app that decides to put words and lessons I didn’t complete, in my completed path. Zero sense

Counter Intuitive System. If I am trying to learn a language and I get a question wrong, I lose a life and am then restricted from learning the language. How am I supposed to improve if I am restricted from learning the language because I don’t know the language? This system does not help me learn the language and restricts my education.

money hungry!. we sit through ads, that we are told is for supporting free learning, and now you make it so much more difficult to learn on this app when you just want us to pay. you charge way too much. some of us have lost our jobs and cannot pay. you’ve taken away perks from the app that were helping me learn. i now have to pay gems to use certain features that were always free for me to use?? why??? i have spent countless hours on this app and watched literally a thousand ads to help support my free learning and apparently that was all for nothing. you are just slapping me in the face and i can no longer even use the timed experience ramp up challenge without buying it?? i am SO unimpressed and so disheartened by this change in the app. it has really killed my desire to practice and learn. and again, i’m months into a streak, practicing for at least 3-4 hours a DAY. you guys are ruthless. it’s so sad. truly sad.

Used to Love it! Hearts??? Really???. I have been using this app for a while now. The new hearts system sucks. It is just a terrible idea to prevent someone from doing lessons because you ran out of hearts. Take this new feature out please.

False Advertising. Why do you say you’re getting 60% off the annual price when you are NOT. You show the annual price as $239 then discounted to $95, but the annual price is usually $119, not $239, so you’re only getting a 20% discount, not 60%. The $239 is for the monthly option, but the sale discount is for the annual option. 60% off the annual price would be around $47, not $95. THIS IS FALSE ADVERTISING. For these lies, I will NEVER buy a subscription and will tell everyone I know about how you are trying to trick people. Being sneaky like that is disgusting.

Duolingo Review. I have been extremely impressed with the organization and function of the app. I feel as though I am picking up Dutch really quickly in a short amount of time (as someone who has learned another language through school and can compare). The mix of written, spoken, listening and pronunciation work on the app is truly incredible, I never expected the app to be this good.

Depressing. I used to love this app as it was such a good way to learn and be able to communicate when I was preparing to travel.. unfortunately the developers have decided to sell out and have filled your lessons full of ads unless you pay for a premium subscription this is a major let down and I will not be using this app again. Depressing that you disregard all of your user base because of money Duolingo was intended to be a fun way to learn. You have ruined this application

Please change the voices. I have been using this app since February on a daily basis and have really enjoyed learning Spanish. Recently the voices have changed and one of the characters is a child’s voice. It is awful, hard to understand. Please, please, please change it back to clearer voices and remove the Spanish speaking child

Hearts has messed up the whole learning. It was an excellent app but the new hearts concept has just messed it up. If you don’t want to support free app that is fine with just plus on store, but it cannot ruin the beautiful experience you had earlier. Disappointed.

Hate the new update. This was an amazing app and then they went and changed it for some reason. It was great and fun and I was actually learning but with the new version I am having a much harder time. If it doesn’t switch back, I may have to find another app.

Lacks explanation. The only downfall of the app is that it doesn’t explain why an answer is wrong. For instance, if you use the masculine version of a word but the correct version is feminine, it would notify that your answer is incorrect but wouldn’t provide the correct answer, or an explanation. I find when learning a new language that it’s easiest to remember how to structure sentences and spell words correctly if I understand why.

Pay to win!?. This LANGUAGE LEARNER is pay to win. Why you may ask? Because of the health bar. Once you get 6 or less questions wrong, you’ll have to wait an hour for the health, so you can LEARN. You’d expect Candy Crush to have this, but no, DUOLINGO does. I hate to be the kind of guy that says “back in the old days”, but I’ll have too. In my elementary days, my teacher used Duolingo as a free time tool. It didn’t have the health bar, more customization, and a better interface. Now the app itself is rather nice, but I can’t get past the fact that it’s p2w. I understand you guys work hard, but just accept donations like Wikipedia, or use your ads. You can keep the Duolingo Plus, but take out the health bar. 1/5

Used to be amazing.... Before their terrible monetization scheme this was the best free language app out there. Now, it’s completely ruined. Instead of encouraging mistakes as you learn, it punishes you for each one, making each lesson seem like a pressure test. I used to recommend this app to anyone, but I will no longer do so. The health system on a timer is something I want no part of. If money isn’t an issue for you, it’s still probably a fine app with the monthly subscription fee, but the value for free users has completely been scraped from the program.

Duolingo. Awesome app, makes learning a language fun and easy. I wish it had Mandarin.

AI Usage. Duolingo recently fired a good portion of their staff and replaced them with AI, while the job of remaining staff seems to only be to check if the AI translations are accurate. I have no doubts that this move will make the app rapidly decline in quality. An AI cannot determine whether sentences sound natural, pick out nuances, or determine whether sentences are useful to learning. Duolingo clearly does not respect either their staff or their customer base if they were willing to make this move.

GET RID OF THE HEARTS. If your reading this Duolingo is an amazing app and I’ve been playing it for a while now and see that there is a health system preventing me from learning more please fix this problem and I will recommend this once awesome app...

A beautifully designed package, encasing a slew of issues.. Let me preface this, by saying I am not a language expert, nor am I some technological wizard who knows the ins and outs of apps and the business behind them. I felt I should give my opinion after learning German for 80 continuos days. The pros: A beautifully designed app, it is probably one of the most aesthetically pleasing apps I have seen on any phone. Likewise, getting into learning can be very addicting with this app, as the gameification of learning can be great for a lot of people. Think of it like using Zwift, but for your brain. Very cool in those regards. The breakdown of the language sections is great too, and not too overwhelming. Cons: My first issue comes with the leadership at DuoLingo. Letting go of 10% of your contractors to replace them with AI learning, is incredibly suspect. It's a trend with a lot of industries now, looking to cut out the human part of learning to save a buck and make more profits. Languages were designed by humans and made for humans, not robots. This action will probably make me go to other learning options. Second; the removal of community aspect of Duolingo. When you used to make a mistake, you could ask the community about the issue, and they would always give you amazing feedback when it comes to sentence structure, slang, etc. This is arguably more important for learning than Duolingos current method, which is just a big red "WRONG" and not explaining WHY something is incorrect. Please bring back community aspects like this. Finally: Speech... learning German has been great, but my problem comes from how fast the speech can be for large sentences. Makes it impossible to get a correct, and clean sentence to solve. The sentences need to be way more clear and precise. Likewise it's either A) fast sentence or B) Excruciatingly Slow replay. Both incredibly painful either way. My suggestion would be to reduce the speech playback by 15-25% to make it sound more clear. All in all, an okay app. However I will probably cancel my subscription when the time comes to do so. Incredibly disappointed in the support of AI to remove contractors for profits. TLDR; Pros: Visually nice, easy to get into, addicting at times. Cons: Ai for Profits, Lack of community Feedback, speech could be better for long sentences.

heart system is stupid. It won’t work out if waiting for whole 24 hrs to have full health, learning language is about making mistakes, the heart system is just another level stupidness, used to love it but now no more.

Right now Duolingo wouldn’t dare offer a live invitation to rate their app. An open invitation to rate them would absolutely tank their current good rating. Right now I’d be happy to give them 0 STARS After having earned a winning streak of almost a year, I lost it by minutes on the daylight saving time change over. It would cost me $10 to restore it- with no option of using gems! I found that so offputting that I stopped using the app for over two months. That’s getting close to the cost of a punitive parking ticket. Duolingo has totally abandon good pedagogy in adopting a punishment mode to force you to upgrade. Punishment is totally effective as a motivator for learning. In fact, is is counterproductive Now that I’ve come back to it I’m even more put off. You now need to maintain hearts in order to progress through a lesson. This will cost you 450 gems. Your errors never used to impede your ability to move to your daily goal. You just got an extra question and a reduced bonus. NO PUNISHMENT! Now you have to keep buying the hearts or you have to start the lesson completely over even if you were just one question away from finishing it! What a put-off. My first review lesson was very complex in its use of grammar, specific irregular verbs, and specific situations for pronouns, adjectives and articles. I kept making a different little mistake in many my do-overs and burned through a lot of hearts. That’s when I learned that you lost everything if you didn’t buy. Also frustrating is that Doulingo is totally unforgiving if you so much as mis-type one letter a name. It used to be a lot easier to forgive them their imperfections when you weren’t being fined for them. There also is no refund when you are fined for a correct answer- one that you share with them to help them improve. To Duolingo: I’ve been watching your ads to help keep this free. Some users cannot afford your fees, others will struggle with them- but make them a priority, others can afford them, and some could afford to pay more. That has always been the spectrum of your clients. You have forgotten your roots and your early mission. Your continued message of ”working to keep the working to keep Duolingo free” is becoming exceedingly hypocritical. I can’t help but wonder if you have a director and staff driving your new changed mission with a sub-plot of creating and keeping very well-paid jobs. I volunteer for hundreds of hours a year, and it saddens me to see these changes. Maybe you should get rid of the dishonest manipulation and do something like Wikipedia. They have a link that takes you to an explanation of their financing and have a donation button. They also are struggling, but they’re being honest in their struggle, not manipulative. Manipulating just diminishes the humanitarian aspect of helping individuals to learn a new language, many of which will be newcomers to the countries they live in or want to work in. It also diminishes the value of the work that your volunteers do, and have done, for altruistic reasons. Do please consider do please consider on doing this last cash grab undoing this last ill-thought cash grab.

Heart feature trash. The heart feature added to app version of this platform is awful. 💔💔💔💔

BOO AI BOOOOO. Laying off staff and replacing them with AI when your translations are mediocre at best anyway? I'm sure this won't cause any problems whatsoever! I'll be moving to another language learning app that still cares about the human connection involved in learning a new language.

Duolingo is going the AI way. Disgusting of you guys to fire human translators in favor of AI translations to cut costs. Once my gift sub is up, I’m uninstalling and not giving you guys any of money. Shame on you.

Heart system. I see allot of people complaining about the heart system in reviews... This prevents people from juste rushing to the end without remembering half of what they learned! When you are out of lives you simply have to do a “Practice” wich is a quiz that takes ALL what you have learned from the first lesson to the one you are at! This pushes me to review all of what i learned to be sure not to forget the lesson i did 1 week ago, or even more. I LOVE THE APP AND I LOVE THE HEART SYSTEM PS: dont miss a lesson or someone who is worth allot to you will go missing!

Used to be good but not anymore. This app used to be good and insightful when learning but the amount of AI they keep adding in hurts your learning ability so much. Don’t know what you did wrong in a lesson? Well now you get to pay to hear AI tell you! A company that prioritizes profit to the point that it hurts users….

💥. Love this app!! (Please let my family go)

Hate the health bar and repetitive lessons. It takes forever to just get 1 heart after I have made a mistake. The lessons are also very redundant and repetitive, it's like the same lesson 48 times

Destroyed. The update to the path interface has really destroyed the product. I was thinking about upgrading to a subscription before, but now I’m thinking about uninstalling.

Microphone doesn’t work. Why does the microphone not work? It is such an integral part of the course. Apparently the microphone has not worked on this App for years as other reviews also complain about that. With so many intelligent App developers out there why has this not been fixed? Otherwise the programme is a good one and enjoyable. This bug MUST get fixed.

Great! Works best on phones and tablets. I've been using this app daily for almost 2 years. It's terrific and fun and has helped me a lot. My only complaints are that it can trick you in to spending thousands of gems just to keep in the league rankings. Something I never concerned myself with. But there really should be a "are you sure?" buton before it wastes all those gems that you buy with real money. The screen that asks if you want to spend them just pops up amidst the other messages you dismiss eveery night, so it seems a bit intentional. And my other complaint is the desktop app worked horrendously during the lessons where you speak out loud. They are typically the easiest, but first time I tried on my computer I failed everyone, because the app would freeze and buffer and then say I got it wrong when it never changed tte screen or said it was "listening". They work great on the phone or tablet tho! Thanks!

Was a good app till today. After they set the lives for the app it became sucks. I’ve been using it daily but from today it’s so annoying when you lost all your lives and have to purchase it...bs

Preposterous New Update. The new update is lazy, unintuitive, and frankly just overall worse. You have completely disregarded thousands of loyal users who have been using the platform with no issues by changing it completely to a redundant, quite useless update. We used to be able to focus on multiple lessons at a time, while also being able to go back, review, and practice in areas where we were not confident. The old layout was user friendly, adaptable, and it was quite easy and fun to use. If you got tired of one area of language, you could move on to another and go back to what was frustrating you at a later time without hindering your progress. Now, if you get stuck on something, or don’t want to do a specific exercise at that time. You are forced with either losing your streak or forcing yourself through an activity you have no motivation for. There are also absolutely NO indication of what the next course will be about. Verbs? Transportation? Daily life? Where did the categories go? My grandmother is 77 years old. She has been using Duolingo for around 2-3 years to help teach her different languages. And she has absolutely loved it. Every day for the past 2+ years I have heard her spend countless hours on Duolingo. Lately she’s lucky to spend more than 20 minutes on it before it becomes too boring and tedious for her. How do you expect users to want to continue learning if you have made it nearly impossible? How is it that in this new update you’ve seemed to completely ignore the very people who’ve made your app so widely used? You admit you’re hearing the app for “new users” but what about the old users who are the very reason your app does so well? Maybe you should actually listen to what your users are wanting out of this app instead of being capitalist pigs focused on brining in as many new users and paying subscribers as possible.

Bye bye learning.... I use to LOVE duolingo app for learning Spanish... that is until they turned to a “health system” and you require lives to learn. When learning a new language you are going to make mistakes and if you have to wait a full day to earn lives you will never learn at that rate. I’m on an 80 day strike and up until today I didn’t need lives to learn and I would really learn by completing 20+ lessons in an hour. Now I cannot get through 4 because I’m out of lives!! Please take this option away! Even the version you pay for requires lives!! That’s so ridiculous. I use to recommend this app to anyone who wanted to learn a language and I no longer will be! This app is designed to learn not play. If I wanted to earn lives to play I would play candy crush.

Horrible update. The new update changed how the app and program works. It’s horrible for someone who has been using all along. The program changed. Cutting my lesson short and putting me in another lesson without the proper training. Also, the levels have changed forcing us to take part in stories. The new update is horrible. Probably will have to find another program.

You’re better off using the website version than the app.. The health bar isn’t a thing on the website, and as such I find the website much more conducive to actually learning. You’re allowed to make mistakes and learn from them as opposed to being punished and shut out. It’s also more forgiving of typos since you don’t lose health — ironic, since it’s easier to make mistakes on a phone’s miniature keyboard than a full-size keyboard. On the website, you don’t have to worry about losing health just because your dumb fat finger accidentally pressed enter before you were finished typing, because you’ll get the chance to try again without losing health. Would have liked to be able to learn on the go, but the app is garbage, so I’ll stick to desktop learning.

It’s all completely wrong in French. This app is awful. Someone who doesn’t speak French made this lol I went on here to check it out for my boyfriend, it’s hilarious how BAD it is. Almost nothing is correct, don’t waste your time 😂

😡. Ok i thought that this was going to help me learn Spanish but it taught me how messed up this app is. you need hearts to learn. And keeps reminding me about the plus thing. Im sorry (not) but this app was a huge disappointment😡

New path update isn’t good. The new path update is confusing and annoying. I hate how I can no longer choose what I want to learn, how I can no longer skip ahead and how things are not properly split up based on the content. Why is stories not on a separate tab like they were before, I want to be able to do stories whenever I want. There should be an option for all users to be able to switch between the 2 different paths at any time they choose. The fact that this was not properly play tested and even though a large majority dislike this change is disgraceful for a company of this size. I had no problems with Duolingo before this update, but until you give an option to revert the path update then I will only be completing the easiest lesson to keep my streak. One again this change was pathetic and whoever approved this change should rethink their position at this company.

Best language learning tool ever!. They drill the language into your head by their unique way of repetition with different variations until it sticks! You get the sense that they spent a lot of effort and paid attention to detail and methodology. Even the ads are polite to the point where you would want to watch their ads! Ads by consent! Well executed. Good job!

Learning path update has ruined a good thing. I’m a long time user of Duolingo- 8 years. I’ve seen a number of changes in the app, most of them positive. However, the new learning path is a disaster. For those of us who have been using the app for a long time, the new UI completely negates all of our previous work. I will only continue to use this app if an option to revert back to the previous learning path is offered to users.

Challenge mode timer. New timer built in to the challenge mode just makes you rush and lose hearts Really don’t want this app to turn in to a fremium Update: it’s a fremium now, was on 182 day hot streak tell the heart system (health bar) made me lose because of typos and misclicks. I really was enjoying this app but if I need a video game I will just use my xbox or PlayStation

Inappropriate subjects for kids. Thinking that it’s a learning tool and you had informed your kids age, I would expect more respect to the parents choice of approach some subjects like homosexuality. Homosexual stories are constantly brought up, distracting kids from the real objective of learning a new language. What about being more neutral?

Unethical. They laid off their translators so that they could save money using AI to translate. So now you’re learning how to speak a language from a machine, not someone who can speak that language. Worthless app.

they use ai. they fired a bunch of their translators in favour of using ai to do their translations :/ won’t be using this app anymore

Mauvaise appli. Depuis sa mise à jour que je n’avais pas je ne peux plus pratiquer autant qu’avant avec Duolingo car il y a maintenant des vies c’est vraiment stupide quand qu’on veut vraiment apprendre l’anglais...

Bring back the classic format. A lot of regular users seem annoyed by the new format. I’m over 200 days in a row learning Spanish and loving duolingo but the format change this week was tough to take. Don’t like it at all.

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Very good overall, but still no substitute for a qualified teacher or native speaking friend. I am less than 100 days from 2,000 day streak on premium Duo! I have studied French and German. It is a great basis to work from for novices in languages with similar alphabets but when I experimented with Japanese and Chinese I was utterly clueless. With some Russian in college I could deal with Cyrillic but no one could understand my Duo pronunciation. My main issues with Duo is when I don’t understand something I need a “qualified or Duo-Certified” “professional” to explain it to me, not some random fellow learner. In German I am lost with their, our, his, her, etc . I am looking forward to the “video chat” with Lily. I study Duo as a hobby, I am not in any classes for languages so I do not push myself hard, many times only 5 minutes a day and other times an hour a day… depending on my schedule and mood/motivation. I am expecting to be in an African country speaking French in a few months again so I hope to use the review feature. I have some serious doubts about Duo teaching Vulcan but not Tajik or Farsi. Lastly, please keep the politics out of Duo. Once in a very rare occurrence it is ok to have a homosexual dialogue but let’s focus on the majority for learning. I do hope that there is a nice “award” for hitting 2,000 straight days. In the end, Duo is well worth the money to me but it has some significant shortcomings in the realm of lack of explanations.

Great app! But…. Duolingo is a great app if you want to stay committed to learning a language! Duolingo has this feature called has a competitive leader board that crowns you the best if you make it really far. I also like if you decided or forgot to do your daily lesson one day, if you had an item called the streak freeze it, would save your streak from going back to zero. Though if decided to stop doing your daily lesson for a while you would keep getting notifications about Duo the Owl wanting you to come back to keep learning which is super annoying like I know the app wants you to be committed to learning but still Duo can you let us take a break once and a while? Also the app has a lot of things you have to pay like the gems earned when you complete a quest are used to buy streak freezes and other things like power ups and lives which are very important for when you use free mode. So if you’re using free mode and lose all your lives because you made a few mistakes, you either can wait for more lives or you buy more lives with your gems. If you don’t have enough gems to buy you have to BUY more gems with REAL money. So it’s not that easy to stay consistent doing lessons all day when using free mode. Over all Duolingo is a good app but the nice features that require you to pay for them aren’t very convenient to free users. One more thing to say though a lot of people say that if you miss your streak Duo will kidnap you or you a family member or something, well.. THAT’S NOT TRUE! Thank you for reading this review, hope this helps and y’all stay safe 💖.

Used to be better. I’ve been using Duolingo for more than four years. Had to restart my streak 3 times because of being on vacation in areas that had lousy internet. That is frustrating but, it’s not really a big deal. Last year, I decided to pay for the app instead of using the free version. Waiting for hearts was starting to drive me crazy (which is probably what they want). Anyway I was taking Spanish but have since switched to Italian. After I got the updated version (the paid version) the app wasn’t as good anymore. They took away the forum where, if you had a question about an answer, you could tap an icon while still on that item, and read what others have said about it. That one feature of the software was so valuable. I used it all the time but, since they removed it, I have the hardest time knowing why and when I should use certain words. Words like da vs dalla etc., are very confusing and, since they don’t tell you when to use what, I have no idea which one to use. Now, it’s turned into a guessing game. It’s mostly the two letter words that I have issues with. Before, I would tap on that feature and read what people had to say about it and I learned a lot more. Why would they take away such a valuable feature? Now I have to go out to the web and get answers from other apps because Duolingo got rid of a very good feature. I’ve been thinking of switching to a different app altogether because this one is just not as good as it used to be. I loved it for the first 3.5 years that I used it. But I don’t like it anymore. It’s too frustrating.

A Great Introduction to a New Language. Duolingo has lots of use, especially as an introduction to a language, even though it won't get into depth in any explanations of grammar, tenses, or cases. It helps you learn these concepts tangentially, via exposure, pattern recognition, and repetition! And most importantly the cute little characters, points and streaks, competitive rankings, and interactions you have on the app makes learning fun! As for its weaknesses, your learning can always be supplemented in reading and media, and other apps and classes. Duolingo is still great for your toolkit. I used Duolingo for Spanish while I was still in middle school, and am using it again to try and learn Ukrainian. While the extent of vocabulary and lessons varies a lot with the language's program, and Ukrainian has less grammar explanation and number of words than I'd like, the gamified rankings, fun practice mechanisms to target speaking and rapid word review, and group accountability via gifts and congratulations really makes this app a great experience. It keeps me present and keeping up my streak, working through pronunciation even though I've already finished the Ukrainian language's lessons, and reviewing words to keep them from getting rusty. Thus these lessons still have relevance. Would reccommend!! Especially in complement to grammar textbooks, exposure to media in songs and film, and some beginner's fairytales in your language. A good way to contribute to a language's foundation. Best of luck in your language learning journey :)

Great But Here Are A Few Tips. So this is great! I started learning Spanish a few weeks ago and I have learned a lot from this app. I thought I wasn’t going to stick with it, but I ended up doing it. It’s a really great app if you want to learn any language! Just a few tips though. A couple times, I’ve had a thing pop up when I’m trying to do my lesson. It says that something went wrong. I came back a while later and the same thing was happening. I’ve been working hard on my streak, and I really don’t want to lose it. I wonder if it is possible to not break my streak because of an error in the app. It’s only happened a couple times, so its fine. Another thing: I feel like we shouldn’t be given the stories until we got all of our first lessons done. I tried to do it when I only had 10 crowns, and I didn’t understand everything. I had to use the hints, and then I felt like I wasted a story. I would recommend not Doug the stories until you are done with the first lesson. The cafe one I would wait until you have the restaurant lesson done with all five crowns. The last thing is just being able to have more than 5 hearts if we do the practice. (Or at least up to 6). I feel like then, you would practice more to get hearts (even if it’s only one more than when your hearts are refilled). Well, this app is amazing even if you don’t fix those tiny things. I would definitely recommend.

Advanced explanations needed!!. I love Duolingo and i think it’s a great way to get into new languages, but something that’s really holding it back from being an amazing language learning software, is its lack of explanations. Yes, you can use “explain my answer” through Duolingo max but I’m talking about explanations when new words are taught (also in my opinion you shouldn’t have to pay to explain your mistakes. Features behind a paywall should just be other more unique ways to learn, like the video call feature). Unfortunately there is a lack of explanations when it comes to learning new words or grammar, and if there is an explanation it’s quite brief and doesn’t show much nuance or context, and because of this I find myself doing a lot of research OUTSIDE of the app on content I’m learning INSIDE the app. If you’re wondering if you should use Duolingo though I still say yes. It’s definitely one of the most fun, if not the most fun, ways to begin learning a language. The humor, drawings, and animations are great and make the app enjoyable even though you’re learning something very new and possibly difficult. If the developers are reading this, I genuinely really like the app, I’ve been using it off and on for 8 years now, but the lack of explanations make language learning more difficult as opposed to more simple, which is why I’m guessing there are a lack of explanations: simplicity. I would love to see advanced additions to explanations and grammar and hope you guys are maybe already in the works of it now. Thanks for reading!!

Good for the basics.. Duolingo can be good for learning languages, but only the base of it. It does not explain things that need to be explained. For example, it will not explain to you the differences of “en” or “et” in Danish. You have to go to their website separately, they do not teach you that in the app. Doing lessons without Super Duolingo (their subscription for 13 USD a month) can be incredibly annoying. They even give you a three day free trial randomly to convince you to buy it. It still think it’s a useful investment if you have the money, and I personally have it. The competitive aspect definitely is a plus. I enjoy logging in each day so I can earn more XP than other people on the leaderboard. Random people will add you as a friend, but I find it sweet to be friends with people from tons of different places learning different languages. You also will be paired up with someone for a “friends quest” every now and then, but you don’t actually talk to the person, just do quests with them to earn rewards. Overall, it can be good for people who do not have the time to sit down and spend hours each day learning a language. I have pretty bad ADHD and struggle with a lot of other language learning platforms, but this has definitely helped a ton in that regard with its easy-to-understand interface and lessons. I would highly recommend you take courses from other sites that are more in depth if you have the time, but this is a cheaper and less complicated option. Thanks for reading, I hope I helped someone :)!

Awesome game but only one problem just for me. So basically, one time they gave me a free trial for only three days so perfect fun because I got to practice those days right but then after I noticed well actually my sister noticed that I was a really high level and I was failing so I can’t have a problem that I think it lifted my level up pretty far because it’s making me basically write down in Spanish really hard words I don’t even know how to write this is a problem and now I’m kind of mad and I don’t know where I left off cause I’m all the way in Orange and I’m not sure I even passed purple yet. I’m on a really far unit. so my sister had to take me back and now the more I go bottom more harder it gets and I don’t know where I learned and I learned I left off so now it’s like I can’t even use the app now it’s to the point right now I was trying to literally do a lesson. I can’t even do it because it’s making me translate the sentence I don’t even know how to write the word father down and literally it’s giving me hard words. And it’s been blowing up my iPad because I haven’t been doing Duolingo. I’ve it’s because I’m punished all the time or sometimes and I’m at my grandparents so I couldn’t play because when I was at my grandparents I was still punish that day so I couldn’t take my iPad with me, so then I couldn’t do the lingo and it was blowing up my iPad while I was

Good starter language learning app but…. If you’re taking a language course in school, this app is great supplementation to practice your skills. If you’re just learning on your own, while Duo is a good stepping stone, you’ll need some extra resources if you’re serious in trying to master a language. Personally I use this and babble because the less popular languages like Swedish and Russian don’t get tips like German and Spanish. Apparently they’re available on the website itself, which is pretty inconvenient. (Really babble is more in depth in explaining the grammar. In comparing the two, they both have their strengths. Duo gives you quick vocabulary and babble gives more grammar.) My issue is really how strangely some of the modules are set up. I noticed that the more popular languages are set up in a way that’s a bit nonsensical and fails to set up the lesson they’re intending to teach you. The questions segment of German spent less time showing the proper set up on how questions are asked and spent more time having me translate random sentences. The thing that irritates me the most is how this app with every update tries to push you to buy premium. It used to be you’d just get a few ads for it but these days after every lesson about there’s another promotion for premium, with increasing unskippability which is even more aggravating. And they added an word save feature which is helpful for learning… except it’s for premium only!

Duolingo is Worth Your Time!. Have you ever learned a new language? If you ever considered learning a second language I highly recommend this app! Duolingo is an app that has over 39 different languages whether your interested in learning Spanish or Navajo, Duolingo has it! Duolingo has helped me learn 3 different languages: Japanese, French, and Hindi. I have found that learning with Duolingo is the easiest way to learn a new language and saved me hours of time trying to learn from a textbook or in person classes. Duolingo is the best language learning resource. Duolingo is the language learning resource of the future. A study showed that 97% of Americans owned a cellphone. Duolingo being an app on a cellphone is more accessible to people than other resources seeing as most Americans own a cellphone. This makes duolingo the language learning resource of the future. It has helped me learn the languages that I struggled with in school. Duolingo’s “bite-sized” lessons add up in the end to a great achievement of being able to speak a different language fluently. Therefore, Duolingo is the best language learning resource. Duolingo helped me achieve my dream of learning new languages without the struggles of school and grades. You can make your own routine and learn at your own pace without the stress. I highly recommend Duolingo to anyone that is thinking about learning a second language. It was quick and easy to sign up and it gave me all of the resources I needed to be successful in a new language. So, will you try Duolingo?

Fun but limited. I have a several year long streak on this app, and I feel it has helped my Spanish comprehension. I enjoy the games and variety in activities to help you learn. It has improved my vocabulary and I feel more confident with my reading and pronunciation. Some of the phrases that the app gives you to practice are pure nonsense, like “The owl likes cleaning the dishes.” Those I don’t feel are helpful as my desire is to increase my conversational Spanish and be more fluid when communicating with Spanish speakers. My biggest gripe is that you can’t save XP boosts for later. It will randomly reward you and then give you 1.5x or 2 XP but as a busy, working parent, this is not ideal. It makes me anxious to open the app to do a quick Spanish lesson because I might accidentally get a reward and have to waste it when I close the app. The rewards and XP boosts also disappear if the app crashes or you accidentally close it. The timer continues to run if you have to answer a phone call etc. I wish all XP boosts give you the option to claim in shop like the ones you earn from a friends quest do. I know I would get a lot more out of them and would be much more likely to use the app throughout the day if they did. Overall, with a three year streak, I still don’t feel very comfortable having conversations in Spanish. This is a little disappointing. It’s fun for vocab etc. but it’s limited in its effectiveness in my experience.

Love the app but ... Look I Love this game like really but something is wrong with the duolingo Super so I got the super for free because I’ve been practicing like every day but do you have the icon that you could change from the boring old one to the new super one So I did that and next thing I know everything starts to crash like all my games work stuff and things, so I checked like what’s going on I’m panicking and then I realized this didn’t happen before, so I thought maybe icon because I changed it so after that I changed it back to what it was, and then everything started to like uncrashing so I was like let’s test it out again, so that’s what I did and then I turned it back on and everything started to like tell me I had no Wi-Fi but I have like five bars so can I have Siri right, and she tells me that something is wrong please try again but I have full bars like I said so then I turned it off like the icon And then after I turned it off everything started to work again, so I was like OK I’m not turning this back on again because then everything is going to start crashing again, so then after that I never turned it back on again and then everything is fine. |for DUOLINGO you really have to fix it because I don’t want no one to have a crash or their stuff telling them that they don’t have Wi-Fi because then they’re probably gonna get worried and I don’t want them to be worried at all like at all|

Duolingo. Duolingo is great! It is really fun and great if you are just doing this for fun. Now it’s a different story if you want to actually visit the country. It makes absolutely no sense how they put these lessons in order. At first it makes sense because it’s practicing greetings and stuff you would actually use if you were going to go to the country but as it goes on, it starts to make less sense it makes you talk about your family or your work and if you’re just visiting the country, you obviously don’t work there. So what I think they could do to improve that is that they could ask in the beginning. Are you doing this for fun? Are you doing it for work or is it for visiting the country. Then based off the answer you choose it gives you your lessons in order. So let’s say you choose for fun. Well then they could leave it how they already have it because you’re not really gonna do anything with it you’re just learning, but if you’re using it for professional purposes, it should have in order talking about your work and greetings and then talking about where you’re from and then the other stuff, but if you’re actually going to visit the country, it should give you first greetings then how to order food at a restaurant or ask for directions or something not first greetings next how to talk about your work or where are you from?

Fun, but…. I’ve really been enjoying using this app to learn Irish. I purchased the lite with ads subscription so I could have more energy and be able to learn a bit faster. After two weeks I was gifted a super subscription for a week, which they do to get you hooked on unlimited energy and no ads. My friend is also using the app and we decided to do the family plan. Sure, you can cancel your plan at any time—but you have to wait until it expires until you can join a different one. Which means I have to wait an entire year before I can join my friend’s family plan. “Cancel at anytime” doesn’t really mean much. They show you a monthly rate but you are billed annually so that even if you do cancel you’re still locked in for a whole year. My friend just paid $120 for the family plan that we now cannot use together unless I create a new profile and start over, thus erasing my 30 day streak and incredible progress. This is really poor design and even worse customer service. You’re impeding the progress of people who want to learn, learn quickly, and learn with others for no real reason. Otherwise I enjoy the app but wish it was cheaper and wish I could do more. It would also be helpful to understand what the words actually mean because Irish is not a straight translation to English, it’s a very poetic language. Understanding the phrases is helpful, but understanding what I’m actually saying behind the phrase would be even more helpful for continuity across different phrases in the language.

A good way to learn some Spanish for me. I have used Dulingo now since October. I have learned a lot of words and phrases and it is fun to do. I would like the program more if at the beginning of each practice, they would give you a list of words that are going to be in that sections session. Often time you get words and you have no idea what they mean because there is nothing that is let you known ahead of time other than when they want you to figure out what it is and there’s a line under it and you can see the definition. I also do not like having to hit check, it grades it and then you have to hit continue. It would be better if it just went onto the next one without hitting continue. My other suggestion would be that when they’re giving words throughout each section and practice, that they use more of a variety of words. I can’t tell you how many times there is leche, pan, escribe, etc. In each practice. If they had all the words at the beginning of the section and then throughout each practice and then a final test at the end of that section, I think it would be better. If they had these things that I mentioned I would actually pay monthly for it. I have gone to the point of 61% fluent and there’s a little statue there and it is not giving me more sections so I’m worried that I can’t go farther and that would be really disappointing. I do like that when I report something as they marked incorrect and should have been acceptable, they do give me feedback and say that they are now excepting that as an answer.

IM IN LOVE WITH THIS OWL!!. Hello, if you don’t know what Duolingo is, you’ll be happy about this and you will probably want this for your kids or you or your family. This is such a good game to learn how to do you’re Spanish, Korean Japanese whatever you were doing this our knows how to help you and if you get super Duolingo are super Duolingo Max it it’s just 10 times easier it explains the answer and breaks it down to you in sentences. Sophia get one wrong like El mujer super Duolingo max will break it down to you. The ads are totally just funny and enjoying it pushes you on and it make sure that you don’t feel down doing Duolingo. It’s super easy from unit one to unit two into all of them it’s just a journey a fun it has funny pictures and it will have you laughing. I know this is the right game for people that are trying to learn different languages without having to do boring stuff so I suggest you get this game right away I don’t walk to your phone run to your phone.‼️‼️‼️(and we love ya) oh and sidebar it has gotten me so good I can just talk to people in Spanish and you only can do one lesson per day in and get it out-of-the-way quickly. I like to do it before bed but honestly if you want you can do it whenever I’m with super Duolingo in super Duolingo Max. It makes it easier because you have infinite hearts and super Duolingo Max well if you get wrong it will ask you if you want to break down how you got it wrong and will give you a AI programmed. Sentences to tell you why you got it wrong!! I am personally, so happy with this app

Almost Perfect. I love Duolingo and it’s helped me a lot, especially working fast food and retail, it helped me so much with assisting customers and asking questions about food, bags, and prices! A lot of people say it won’t make you fluent, but I actually take time when doing Duolingo to take notes and study a little for my lessons and chapters, etc, and I learn a lot! I love that you can use it for free with ads and limited hearts, because with the limited hearts, it pushes me to really study some more on my lessons to make sure I’m getting as few as possible wrong. My only complains are, one, I don’t like how the monthly challenges go up 10 points every month… 40 points for each reward I felt was perfect, maybe even 45, but 50+ I feel like is a little too much, especially for people like me who have busy schedules who study it a bit and/or might be a little slow to learning. Sometimes too with my schooling and working, I’ll use a streak freeze for a short break, but then I’m not getting my challenge points in! Some might say to have my friends chip in with the group challenges, but the one friend I have who does it often does it for the streak and doesn’t care for the challenges, and everyone else uses a different platform. Please lower the challenge points to 40-45 😭. Second complaint is the match madness times. I can get through the first star just barely, and the other two are almost impossible for me! It’s not that I don’t know the words, but that I read slower and have slow reflexes, so it takes out the fun that I can’t do those.

My rating. Duolingo is an app that helps people develop languages, chess,math, and reading. I don’t recommend the math but overall it does help you for languages. You have to speak it learn it, practice it, and write it. Same with music and same with chess except you don’t speak it or write it in music and chess. The only thing I don’t like is how they don’t give you as much energy as you wish. One lesson is about 12 to 15 energy and a legendary lesson to earn double XP you need even almost all 25 energy. For once I do like the ad, they’re all the characters explaining super Duolingo and all the benefits of it in different ways and I do not mind those ads, but they also do give other apps like let’s say block blast chances in Duolingo to show us what their benefits are to make us buy them. But overall, the reason I gave them four stars is because of how much they’ve helped me grow in my language in my chest, and my music hasn’t gotten better because I already have learned Music, but for people that haven’t yet learned Music outside of Duolingo it’s great. I would’ve given them five stars, but I didn’t because of the energy to keep watching ads and they give you a leaderboard to make you stressed out sometimes wanting to be the first person because you can be highest and yes, that does motivate you to go more, but it takes you away from the learning process, which is why I gave them four star.

Course quality depends on the language. I've been using the premium version for two years, mostly on Japanese and tried some others. Some language courses are much better than others. For example the Spanish course seems pretty robust. Korean seemed pretty bad for beginners (even though it's a relatively easy language to learn). I have the most experience with the Japanese courses. It's honestly not great if you're completely new to the language. It doesn't have much focus on teaching the basic alphabet and tries to jump into to words or phrases without much context. If you already know a bit and want to learn some kanji it is decent for that. There are many frustrations with the courses. One of the most annoying things is when you're trying to complete courses quickly to beat a certain timer. Some sentences they want you to translate are weirdly long and unnatural. I can't help but to think there are roadblocks set in place to encourage people to buy timer boosts. I also really don't like the amount of unnecessary animations, some which you cannot turn off that just adds time between courses. Pretty frustrating when I'm trying to finish a few quick lessons during a break or to get more xp within the boost timer. Overall it's a fun little way to get some practice in but it's best used as a supplemental learning too. For many languages it doesn't seem to be a good way to learn from scratch.

Duo is the BEST App for Learning a New Language☺️💖💗💚🦉. Duolingo has helped me learn Japanese and French really easily! The lessons are not to challenging or too easy, they are really fun, and it teaches you a language on the same level as a real life course. The only thing that I don't love about it is the energy system. I don't know why they changed the limited hearts thing and changed it to energy, but in my opinion it had made it a little less fun. I can barely finish a lesson and a half without running out of energy. When you do you either have to watch and add for five more energy or play a mini lessons to earn more. Obviously this is not a problem for people have max or super Duolingo. But for the people who can't afford it makes it difficult to learn as fast. I don't know why they changed the system and if it is just me who doesn't like it, but besides that it is amazing! They offer a wide range of activities in lessons like listening, typing, and my personal favorite, the speaking exercise! It not only helps you read and get a basic understanding of the words, but it helps you to write and speak it. For example, they even have specific lessons to learn how to write and read symbols if you are learning something like Japanese or Chinese. Overall, Duolingo is and amazing app that educates you and professionally teaches you new language just like a real course would but for free (or cheaper if you pay for max or super Duolingo). So I suggest to you that you download Duolingo and start learning a new language! ⭐️✨🦉💚

Please fix league icons.. I am overall satisfied about the application. I however earned one of the rare badges for doing well in a yearly review or however you get the galactic conqueror sword or whatnot. I made the mistake of trying to see if I could access the icon after switching to a normal one because some of the icons had a gem looking thing above it. Only to discover that apparently I can no longer equip that badge again. I feel like if I earn something it should not be taken away from me. It was a very difficult achievement to obtain and now I have no way of displaying that I ever achieved it. Very upsetting and I hope there may be a way to retroactively allow those that did earn the achievement to access that again (without having to get the whole achievement AGAIN). I could force my phone to reset at an earlier backup date but that’s so frustrating to solve such a menial issue that shouldn’t even be an issue to begin with. Atleast give people a disclaimer that they cannot change the badge if they wish to keep it equipped so they don’t end up like I did. Ordinarily I wouldn’t be too annoyed with having to earn the badge again but the cost of achieving that goal is now SIGNIFICANTLY harder than it was in units 1-30 but now I have CEFR score of 30+ in all of my languages, so it’s a lot harder to be a top 2% learner now (or whatever is required to get that badge).

Addictive and challenging. I have been impressed with how much I can learn, even without grammar explanations. The sentences (with translations) build up and if you go in order you can learn a lot. I came in knowing quite a bit of vocabulary but little grammar, so had to go back to earlier lessons and catch up, but it was possible and Duolingo is quite strict! I really like the way the content is specific to the language. I am learning Danish and it includes Danish cultural and geographic detail. This is not a cookie-cutter program teaching the same content for each language. (I wasn’t however thrilled with the lessons on boy/girlfriends moving in together, etc. Despite the initial email that “my child” was using the app.) Some of the English translations are a bit forced, but I have decided it is a useful feature, as that reinforces the grammar differences and is needed for translating exactly what the app wants into the target language. I supplement the app with reading/listening to materials without translation, as you can only get so far with translating, but you can learn a lot with words in context, and that is a huge benefit to the approach here. Other programs drill you on individual vocabulary words building up to a sentence. Duolingo gives you sentences with popup translations that let you learn how the word is used at the same time. Much faster. And much more variety. I am always surprised by new variations I haven’t heard before. Quite realistic!

Super Duolingo • my first review:. I have super Duolingo and have been practice Spanish for a few months now. It’s amazing how fast you can learn languages and the customized target practice is incredible! Though, before I got super Duolingo it was hard to find motivation to go on the app, there were so many tedious adds and I only got 3 hearts. So once I ran out, I practiced the level, earned another heart and then got to try the level again. But if I messed up just once I would have to start over. I understand why you make it so there is only 3 hearts. But if someone has to try over and over maybe you could offer something easier so than can continue their daily lessons. I also have some recommendations for super Duolingo practices and some other exercises I would like to see. Such as flashcards, responding to custom sentences, etc. But the main reason I have decided to write this review is to ask for sigh language lessons. I know, some people don’t consider sigh language as a actual language. But, it is probably the most important language to learn in general. For the amount deaf/mute people I come across on average. It makes things quite confusing for me and the person trying to communicate. Thank you for reading this, and to the development team, please take actually use my ideas. I’ve written reviews for language apps in the apps and they end up not even reading them or telling me to Gmail them about my problems (which I do) and then they continue to ignore my requests. - Reviewer

New Update Terrible. I have been using Duolingo pretty successfully for the last 6 years, I credit it for getting me pretty far into learning Portuguese before I picked up an in person tutor and was making great strides with Russian. However, the newest update was a step backwards. I’ve tried being open to it because sometimes change is hard. But I’ve spent 5 days with it newly updated and I can safely say this is a step backwards. As others have already said, the linear style is so unappealing, sometimes I have no idea what the focus of the lesson is which is important when working on certain cases or even tenses. Past tense constructs were randomly thrown in to my current lessons when I hadn’t gotten that far yet. Also, it said they would save our progress but so far, I’m doing a lot of repetition of things that I spent hours working on before - I used to work through each topic to completion which could take days and would always look forward to moving on to a new topic. This new layout has thrown in lessons I already worked through to completion plus areas that I haven’t started yet. Edit: after reading Duolingo’s blog regarding the explanation for the change, I understand better the idea behind the new layout. For getting spaced repetition of already practiced content, it is better in that it’s already built in to the path. I’m open to the new layout and will increase my stars given. If you’re struggling with accepting the new layout, read Duolingo’s explanation of why they changed it. Some of their points do make sense and there was thought out into it.

Duolingo is the best. Duolingo is the best because I’m learning Korean and next will be Chinese and then Japanese. I already know Spanish but sometimes I don’t pronounce the word properly. Since I have a Mexican family I have to say the words correctly or else they won’t understand me. Well my mom dad sisters know English too so it’s ok but my grandmas and grandpas don’t so I have to learn more. But thanks to Duo I’m better at it so please download Duolingo today to learn a new language or to practice a language. Also Duolingo doesn’t go continue and not give you anything no it give you high fives and prizes and I love that it always no gives me high fives because most apps that I get don’t do that. Even if you get it wrong that will redo that same thing until you get it write and if you want it to explain your answer you can!!! It also sets a timer how cool right!!! Guess what you don’t need to pay unless you want to get premium and get infinite and beyond hearts!!!😀 At first I thought it was just a random lame thing but when I saw my sissy doing it I wanted to give it a try so now I wish I have gotten it sooner. So with that please get the Duolingo app to learn or practice a language and if you get the perfect palate payaso like me I have gotten one perfect before so if u get one you are as lucky as me!! Get Duolingo now or else I don’t know and I don’t care but just saying please get it🙏 I beg you but if u already have it or Already know all the languages in the world in history that it’s OK♥️ it kind of sounded like an ad, but I don’t care.🤷‍♀️

Good app! ...but needs work!. Great free app, very helpful and useful in learning new or refining old languages. However, it still needs work in my opinion. I am learning Spanish and I have learned a lot more than I already knew in a couple days... but there are times when using a proper word is necessary to succeed and move on, but I have to restart over and over again later (after practicing, to get health to play) ...because I picked the right term but wrong specific word and no explanation is given as to why. I.E: Yo (means I) has to be followed with an o in the use of words like como (eat) or bebo (drink) instead of come/comen/comes or bebe/beben/bebes (as I learned through searching), but no explanation is given as to why. It’s frustrating and infuriating. This needs to be explained and taught for proper teaching of other languages. Also, why does the asterisk above certain Spanish words apply but not on others? Learn it all or don’t even try I say! Finally, turn down the need for health as often, or turn up the regeneration rate. I read it was said that they are trying to make learning free. So do it more, please. Stop making me practice over and over again just to get 1 bar of health (works on only 1 mistake before failing) and have 1 measly chance at succeeding just to have to quit, practice, and start ALL OVER AGAIN; only to fail because I don’t understand what I did wrong! The ads are bad enough and should be sufficient... but then there’s this! Please fix!

Difficulty in learning languages. I’ve always had difficulty in comprehending languages, other than English, and generally, courses offered online or in person were too expensive for my budget. Similarly, the few basic courses that I did sacrifice to take, were a waste of money and time. Still determined to learn Spanish, I found this site while searching the web, and thought why not try again. I started this program 4 days ago, and I can’t believe the ease I feel while going through the initial lessons. What has been most beneficial for me is the variety of instruction that includes auditory, visual and kinetic learning techniques (I’ve previously tested evenly across the spectrum and use all those senses while learning). I’ve also supplemented this learning with free Spanish videos online and with an “easy Spanish reader,” so I’m making additional efforts to comprehend the language. For the 1st time, I feel like I might actual learn Spanish enough to communicate with others who speak the language. I’m not in a position to pay for this type of instruction, at the moment, so the fact that I can utilize this service without a fee is the greatest advantage and grateful it’s offered. I have also invited others that I know who have been adversely affected by COVID-19 to join me on this quest to learn a language during this pandemic. I also enjoy reading other learners stories in the chat community section of this site. I’m amazed by the individuals who have been using this website for 7 plus years, learning multiple languages. I just hope to learn one.

My Opinion. It’s a great app for learning a new language in the end, I have some minor problems with the app though. I don’t like the non stop reminders, I don’t like how the cover looks sad whenever you don’t use it for long enough( not that big of a deal but it’s kind of annoying because I don’t always have time to learn German), and I don’t like how random strangers can see how much time I spend on Duolingo. There are some solutions to the things I mentioned, with the random people seeing your stats if you block people they can’t see you but I also would rather have a button or something in the beginning that’s like “would you like to let others see your stats?” And with the reminders thing it does have a a question once you download it where it says “would you like Duolingo to send you notifications” but I had no idea how many it would be and now I don’t know how to turn them off without airplane mode. Anyway, despite these tiny problems I really think it’s a great app and it’s definitely worth it. The quests are very exciting, the match madness mini game and other mini games are very entertaining and I think it’s a great way to learn a language. Before I downloaded it the only thing in German I new was “Danke” but now I could have plenty of conversations in German, that’s absolutely phenomenal to me! I really think a few errors shouldn’t hold anyone back from considering trying out this app.

Amazing language learning application ✨. It’s every thing a language learning application must be but i have a few criticisms to make about it ( i believe good criticism makes us improve 😉so) : First i would like to mention that Duolingo doesn’t have Farsi in it, a language spoken by more than 110 millions of people in the world! Duolingo has been around since 2011 and I’ve been one of its first users since back then and i remember suggesting adding Farsi in those days but somehow so many languages been added to it even though they are spoken by smaller amount of people (which is amazing to add every language possible! And That’s what i think makes Duolingo special, to be able to use for every human being and to learn every language possible! That’s how big i see this application’s influence 😃) but still it lacks Farsi( in which i hope it’s not due to racism or something…) i suggest adding Farsi to Duolingo cause it will become easier for those who want to learn it and also for farsi speakers to learn other languages (here’s the most popular languages that Farsi speakers go for learning them: English, German, French, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Turkish, Spanish, Arabic) Secondly please make it easier to receive free super Duolingo chests or except having 5 daily hearts make it ten so the learning journey will be easier ( due to more hearts we can spend longer hours in learning in Duolingo) Thank you for reading this Lots of love

I love the setup and purpose of why this app exists, some tweaks and I think it could be amazing. I just started to use this app again even though I’ve had an account since 2016. I’ve taken some courses in high school and college for Spanish which helps in the language learning process; most is just refreshing with the language of Spanish. I can’t provide to much input as to whether it will help you become fluent or not because I’m still on the beginning stages of the lessons. However I am enjoying my time with it and hopefully it does help me get to where I would like to be which is a fluent Spanish speaker. I rated four stars because going through the activities I’ve noticed that when it tells you to repeat the sentence the audio seems to lag on the last word and take a little while to register that you got it correct. Everything else is great, I like that if you get something wrong you can go to the discussion section where other users have had the same issues as yourself which has helped me understand errors so I don’t make the same mistake next time. Even after viewing the comment sections duolingo itself gives its own tip by using an example to help you remember and avoid the mistake you made for the future. I would highly recommend the app for learning a language but like I said previously I’m not sure if it will help you become fluent or not. Fix the audio issues of it lagging for a few seconds and I’d gladly rate five stars!!!

It’s good, I’m learning, but…. So I’ve been learning Greek, Italian, and chess, and I just finished the first like, section of my journey to learn Greek and chess, Italian I am not as focused on. I am very annoyed about how after I just finished my first like level, that it has gotten very much harder and I am not able to keep up with the lessons anymore. The amount of ads is also insanely annoying. Also, you always run out of energy before you can complete as much lessons as you want. I can only do 2 to 3 lessons a day when I would like to be progressing much faster. I cannot afford to pay for super Duolingo and very annoyed at the benefits that people who can’t afford to pay for are getting while I am stuck with the version that gave me adds every five minutes and I can’t even complete a significant amount of lessons to easily progress. The first lessons were fun, but now that it has gotten much harder without any warning I am very lost. The first lesson for sure help me learn the language languages and Duolingo also provides other things you can learn chess math and music. The chess one is very useful and I’ve been learning a lot in it and I definitely recommend trying it out. All in all, if you are looking to learn a language, Duolingo is definitely the best language learning app I have tried, but you will definitely be annoyed with some of the things that you will experience while using the app as listed above. Thank you for reading my review and I hope you found it helpful.

Good but not enough. I have used Duolingo for a long time now. It’s very helpful in getting started on a language, primarily with learning basic words and grammar. If you learned a language years ago it’s a great way to refresh your memory. I’ve used it to prep for trips to Europe and Russia. The game side of Duolingo gets mocked by other language apps, but it’s actually fun. They have developed a whole cast of characters who help you learn, each with unique personalities. Sometimes they have too much personality, and you learn all about their first dates, what they like to eat, their foibles and idiosyncrasies. It’s fun. The rewards system keeps you motivated. It’s a friendly, easy to use app. Now here’s what else you should know. If you really want to learn a language, Duolingo is not enough. It’s great in conjunction with another app that focuses more on speaking and less on vocabulary. I paid the year rate and went to about level 55 in a language. I tested out for another immersive app and it rated me as being level B2-B3. But when I started the speaking app, I was lost. Now I use both every day. The free version is you fooling yourself. Either decide to learn a language or not. If you really want to learn it, you will need to spend more time on it every day than you will be able to do with their battery charge shenanigans. I liked the hearts better but both are flawed. You AD will AD see AD an AD after every exercise, it’s really annoying.

New smaller word boxes TOO SMALL. Since the recent update (late April 2018), on my iPad Pro DuoLingo app, the word boxes and the type within them, which one taps to put together a translated sentence, are frequently appearing much smaller than the helpful size they consistently were before. Sometimes they appear in the original size, but more often now, even with a short sentence where there is no problem fitting them on the page, they are very small. Harder to read, and harder to accurately select. And I have small hands/fingers. I lost several “health” bars and had to stop my lesson sooner than in the past, because I was selecting at the speed I always have, and realized I could not have the confidence I had grown accustomed to, that when I think I have touched a word box, it is selected. So my learning process is slowed not because I am selecting the incorrect word and losing health, but that I have to stop and check more diligently to make sure the box I tapped (or tried to, but apparently did not hit the now very small “sweet spot” on it which selects it), actually shows up in the answer box. This was NEVER an issue before the change in word-box size. Please make them, if not as large as they have been previously, larger than they are after this recent “upgrade”. Very annoying in an otherwise wonderful app...you folks say you want to make learning easy, and my feedback is that this tiny type in close-together boxes, is an impediment to learning. Thank you.

READ BEFORE YOU GET!. Duolingo is a very good app, but has some cons. I used it on another device, now am using it on this one. The new energy instead of hearts is a little annoying because it counts for question you get right and wrong. I just don’t think that’s good. I like the hearts better because you only lose one when you miss a question. I also don’t like that super mode has so many upgrades to regular Duolingo. Mistake corrector? Seriously?!?! We have to pay to understand our mistakes?!? I can do that in real life by just asking someone to explain it. In the super vs regular chart, regular only has one benefit while super has like 8. No one is going to get Duolingo for one benefit! Lots of people do, like me(I just want to learn a language), but some of those people upgrade to super, paying over a hundred dollars a year for an app that they will 70 percent of the time lose their learning streak. That’s what happened to me. I just didn’t pay for this so-called SUPER! I WAS ONE DAY AWAY FORM A 30 DAY STREAK AND I DIDNT HAVE ANY FREEZES LEFT! How about giving people 2 FrEeZeS at the beginning of every month? Doesn’t that sound nice? Or at least one freeze. Anyway, I am giving it four stars. And Duo, of want 5 stars from me, consider my problems and FIX THEM! Besides all that, I think Duolingo is a great app for someone who wants to learn a language. I like all the characters and stories. But, I am keeping my 4 stars rating.

Love it, but some features need to be added. I have to say that Duolingo has taken me to a new world of languages. I can spend my whole days practicing with Duo and increase my ability of using languages. However, there're still things that I'm not satisfied with this version for IOS: - the discussions after answers: I've wait for them since a long long time ago. I believe that Duolingo is not only a software for learning languages, but also a special environment for everyone to enhance their skills together. Using Duo on IOS is quite convenient, but if I want to check my answer with the other's, I have to login my account again on the version for web browser, go to that skill, do it and seek for the question. That's not good at all! - The report: Nothing happens when I press the button to report the errors (most of them are translation errors). My and other's reports are the very efficient tools to help Duo better, and we want to see that in the near future. - The club should be added to web version and the currency systems - gems - needs need to be synced. Anyway, the life point is awesome, but we want more games, or tournaments, or challenges, or... something like that, just to increase the competitiveness between leaners. I know that to solve with the problems I've listed above will take a lot of time and money and labor power, but we can believe with our effort and strength, the future of Duolingo is brighter than ever! Duolingo is the sweet home for everyone!

Solid 3 1/2. Duolingo is such a great asset for learning a language. The gamification is perfect and the work is there. I’ve been using it to help with my schooling, and so far it’s been such a great help. With the addition of Duolingo math and music now, I can learn piano and have a math tutor all in the same app. The reason I’m giving it a 3 and 1/2 is because of the glitches that have been happening lately. I know this is probably a dev issue with the addition of math and music, but it’s bad enough to pass that exception. The gamification part of it is what I love the most. That is why this is a 3 and 1/2. I have had a perfect streak for a while now and the widgets for Duolingo has helped some. But lately the widgets aren’t up to date with my streak and say that I lost my streak even though in the app is says I still have it. I did a lesson a couple days ago, and the widget didn’t update. This had been happening for a while and I was used to it. The next day when I logged on however, it said I had lost my streak, and I could spend gems to recover. I was so frustrated with losing my streak that I had worked on for so long, and that was the part I loved. Bragging to others. It has given me and my friends so much laughter and fun bragging on ourselves and when I lost it, I was devastated, and my friends were devastated for me. So Duolingo devs, if you see this, please please please fix this. (And give me my streak back if that’s possible 🤷🏼‍♂️) Thanks for reading, Duolingo User

Incredible, Math Isn’t Great. Apologies for my name, I wrote that name for my reviewer when I was eight. Duolingo is an incredible app, and the memes should not exist. I understand why they do, because it seems a little forceful, but how are they meant to encourage you? This is a great app, especially because of all the updates making it more interactive, encouraging, and moldable to your way of learning. But, the math version isn’t the greatest. You see, the elementary to middle school learning path is only math for elementary students, even for the more challenging section. This is not the sort of math middle schoolers do, it is too easy. And, there is not beginning algebra. I also have one question. I’m stuck on this one part. I’ve been doing practices for 20 days instead of it because it’s so hard for me. It won’t give me any help, or anything, and I really just don’t get it. I can’t keep learning if Duolingo keeps me stuck here. Please consider my opinions. Edit: hey, not 100% sure if you changed the thing from before. I wanted to mention that the fact that you added a chess class makes me SO HAPPY!! But, why did you remove the feature to practice for hearts? If a person enjoys Duolingo and wants to continue practicing out of boredom, there’s no reason to take away the feature to do more! I liked how it was an option to keep working but wasn’t forced. Not everyone does the bare minimum every day. PLEASE GIVE IT BACK. Thank you!

This is the best game!. I was able to learn 2 languages with Duolingo! If you want to learn how to speak more languages get this game! 10/10 would recommend! This helped me so much! I was already learning how to speak Russian in just a couple of days! I loved this so much it helped me! This was so helpful. I really didn’t think this would work but it actually helped me learn Russian! Duolingo is the best helping app there is. There are definitely other apps that can help but Duolingo helps me learn and it gives you leans based on what language you’re learning how to speak in. I love this app so much it has helped me improve my understanding in how to speak a different language. If you want to learn how to speak any language get Duolingo!! Not only it helps you but it also lets you do more languages than just one language and it has math and so much more! I really love Duolingo because not only it helps me learn it helps me get a better understanding of the world and it’s free! You can choose what language you want and you can also choose a different language! My favorite language is Russian but you can choose ANY language you desire! If you don’t know how to speak a language get Duolingo! This app helped me improve my understanding of the language I chose. I really recommend Duolingo if you want to learn so much different languages! The app as so much language that you can learn! It even has music and math! This app has helped me SO much I recommend this app and not some other random app. It even lets you make your own profile! I hope you love this app just like me.

Great app but a few flaws. Duolingo is great! I would definitely recommend it, but there are a few flaws. For example, if you want a better chance to fully understand the language of your choice you need to pay, I understand that they have to get money somehow, but if you are looking for a completely free app than Duolingo might not be the best for you. Also, it will make you come back every day to continue learning the language and if you don’t it will make you lose your streak. It will also give you a certain amount of hearts and if you loose all the hearts, you can’t continue the lesson. (You loose them by making mistakes on the questions and you can get unlimited hearts by paying money). I don't want to make this a fully negative review but i wanted to mention the flaws first. The good parts about this app is that there is a free option for the app that you can still learn, you can also learn multiple languages in the other language learning apps i had before it would only make me choose one language. Also Duolingo has other ways to learn the language, like you can choose to do a speaking lesson, you can do a listening lesson, and you can do a roleplaying lesson to do these though you need to pay. (This has nothing to do with the learning part of this app) but Duolingo lets you make these cute little characters of yourself, I’ve always been a fan of little character-creation games so this is a fun little touch to the app. Overall, I would definitely recommend this app if you are looking for a language learning app for travel, school/work, family or just for fun!

Japanese course. Overall the app is fun and with reminder notifications you are more motivated to learn. As someone with short term memory problems the constant repeat of character turns short term memories into long term. Definitely a plus. The only thing I don’t like about the app is that in the Japanese course you can learn the hiragana and katakana before going through the course. However, it is not the same for kanji. You have to learn the kanji while going through the course then It shows up in the ‘kanji’ section. Due to this I have to learn Kanji on a separate app. Perhaps there is a reason but if there is I am unaware. Perhaps the 4,000+ characters lol. The second thing that I dislike about the app is the way the Japanese course is set up. I believe that the katakana, hiragana, and Kanji should be set at the front of the course rather than off to the side. It should be the first thing you learn if you want to be fluent in all aspects of Japanese. You can always learn through the course but the repeat in character helped me more than trying to understand through the lesson. I like the apps mission and am not upset about paying the subscription because the app has amazing resources for learners of all types. Don’t let people tell you not to learn Japanese from Duolingo. All resources are good when first starting out. Duolingo hiragana and katakana sections alone are worth the download.

My thoughts. Disclaimer: don’t take this review, literally Duolingo is fine. I guess back in the old days it used to be extremely popular with the whole you learning a new language, however one thing that’s stick was how straightforward it was, but not in a good way you see the app gives you words how to speak however it’s disabled if the person is completely new to the language as some words may be entirely confusing if you’re struggling with this, I would recommend writing this on a notebook like something that I do is, I make a separate notebook for the language just in case I have free time to study oh and don’t even get me started on the whole battery life thing I remember when it used to be hearts now it’s this whole battery thing and if you don’t know what it is, I’ll give you a quick rundown you can have a maximum of 25 battery life and it will usually take a person doing a perfect lesson at least 12 to 13 battery life to complete a lesson that means you could do about two lessons a day this is very disabling since it makes the ads even more another reason why people don’t really like the app is because that instead of using ad for other companies, they’ll create their own ads advertising their own products which sounds smart at first extremely repetitive telling you to get “super Duolingo” or “super family plan” so in conclusion, the app is OK not the best and if you wanna learn a language there, I’d recommend knowing some of the basics

Oh my goodness. This app has so many cool things. One reason is you can learn stuff like Spanish, or German, and it actually sticks in your head if you do the app and lessons enough! If people get Super Duo there are no adds and stuff. Which is also cool. Plus, there are so many cute, funny, and weird but in a good way animations! They make me laugh a lot! 😅 I have right now a 240 day streak and honestly, when you get up into those higher numbers with your streak you don’t want to lose it. I’ve seen people get into the thousands like it’s nothing and they just play it cool but they’ve spent at least a little more than 3 years getting that so it’s insanely cool! Like I make sure to do Duolingo every day. But if you don’t… YOU WONT LOOSE YOUR STREAK! Here’s why: there are these things called Streak Freezers that cost 200 diamonds which is not that much if you do Duo often. But if you miss a day or two in the week it won’t be a problem because it just freezes that day so you won’t loose you 143 day streak if you have one. I love that part because last week I missed 2 days because I was busy. So that helped. But those are all my reasons you should get this game! It helps you learn, laugh, have fun, and also they just added math and music to the app so those are also things you can do as well! What I’m saying is… just get the app! It’s amazing!! 5 stars from me! 🇪🇸🇩🇪🇫🇷🇮🇹🇯🇵🇺🇸🎶✖️➗➕➖

Was so happy with this app until the new updates… maybe switching back to Babbel. Loved the idea of quick lessons and the group motivation system. However, with the new updates, it’s very hard to go back to specify areas where I need targeted practice, difficult to see my progress overall, and the worse thing is that they removed the audio learning lessons! Half of the time my daily practice was while driving in my hour commute home after a 12+ hour shift…. I cannot safely read or type while driving (nor would I recommend it to ANYONE) and the app has just become obtuse… had recommended it to many friends… may be rescinding that recommendation after the last few updates. So disappointed! Makes it harder in general to learn, the developers are just ignoring feedback from users as they want more subscribers, clearly a ploy to annoy their current user base into quitting or subscribing. I would pay if they were improving the product. I am definitely NOT investing money in this! Been a yearly subscriber for Babbel for years, Duolingo could have had my business and now they are just making me a more loyal Babbel subscriber. I want to love this app but with every update they are hurting my learning progress and driving me away from the app. Immensely disappointed in the last few months … Update: decided to continue with Duolingo after this but recently the app has multiple bugs. I keep reporting it and the reports go unanswered. I don’t believe they are supporting or addressing these bugs….

It’s just alright!. I don’t think Duolingo can genuinely help someone learn a language, become fluent in that language, and hold a human conversation for more than 10 minutes. In my opinion, it can definitely help someone spend time more productively, and can possibly help with reading and/or fluency if you already know the language you want to “learn” on Duolingo. I personally think the concept is pretty cool, if you’re really invested with it. It has cool game-like activities such as matching the word with the meaning in your own language, streaks, and even leaderboards for whoever has the most XP (which you get by doing a lesson.) Even if you are genuinely invested and want to actually learn a language, then you can’t be into it for long since now they have energy. the energy is simple. for every question, you lose one energy point. when doing legendary levels, you lose two energy points for each question. But throughout the lessons, they do give back some energy, which can allow your learning to exceed a bit longer. You only get 25 energy per day. After doing your lesson, you get an annoying ad that’s probably voiced by AI, talking about Super Duolingo. Now, when get Super Duolingo, you get unlimited energy and no ads. There’s a family plan and a singular plan, and I don’t know the cost of either because I don’t care. I don't care because Duolingo won’t help me become fluent in the language i’m trying to learn. Thank You for reading this if you got this far down!😽 Have a nice day!

Why I recommend this app.. I’ve used Duolingo for over 5 years now and it has helped me not only learn new languages but it has also helped maintain everything I had already learned. With the years I’ve seen it update and change and though I haven’t like every update almost all of them bring new feature and content for everyone to use. Like most apps it can be completely free or you can pay a subscription for the premium version. I have personally used both and enjoyed both to some extent. I currently use the premium version at the moment as I travel to many different countries and would like to be able to download all the lessons that way I don’t have to stop learning just because there is no internet. The one feature that I despise on this app is the lives you have on the free version. At first it isn’t so bad but when you progress to the harder lessons in your language they do get used up rather fast. I feel like that’s a feature that kills off a lot of the people who would use the app as several of my friends used to use it until that feature came about. They aren’t in a position to get the premium version so they just lost interest. I understand they need to make money to keep things going but they should do it in a way that doesn’t take away from the learning experience. When it’s all said in done I still love the app and have used it in over 10 different country’s on 3 different continents for 2 different languages. I highly recommend you give it a try and don’t get easily discouraged when the lessons get tough. Try it for at least a month and learn all of the features.

It’s a good app!. This is some reasons i gave this app 4 stars only. I did not want to put 5 because of some stuff so let me tell you. This app is so amazing i would download it if i were you but, i am trying to learn french because of friends.. but it does not really teach me french language. All it kinda wants me to do is pick the right french word or, something else like that. It doesn’t seam to make me remember all the words. So i give this app a 4. No hate to this app because they are trying there BEST to help people learn new languages! Its really a great app but also, it wants you to pay a lot for a month I’m pretty sure to get no ads and level up quicker. Almost every app has a monthly subscription witch is kinda unfair. People are losing there jobs during this moment of Covid-19 so they won’t be able to pay that much for a month or however much it costs. I would say who would want to level up fast? It would not be fun because its going fast and you really learn anything and, its kinda cheating as what i think. The no ads.. well thats kinda “OK” but i don’t know about it.. the ads are kinda great although, they are about the Duolingo subscriptions. The ads are actually short though so i would not mind the ads because i don’t want to pay a monthly subscription. So i give this a 4 i guess but it’s actually good app and i think you should download it if you like! There is so many amazing languages out there on Duolingo. Thanks for reading my review! - Customer <3

Duolingo: What’s the new language?. Duolingo is a great learning platform for languages. It’s the same thing with Google Classroom for different assignments and multiple classes. Or Kahoot! for quizzes on a lesson. Without a doubt, Duolingo just keeps getting better and better. With Super Duolingo, you can unlock zero ads and unlimited hearts. The Osame goes for the all-new Duolingo Max, along with other things like explain my answer and roleplay which is designed to put your learning skills to the test. The best part is that Duolingo is free to download on the Apple App Store and Google Play. It could be impossible if we did get a Duolingo Movie. We can imagine that. As of writing this review, it's great to come back to the Duolingo app and come back for more. What will YOU do with Duolongo? How will you learn this new language? Not to worry! Because Duo has many languages from all over the world you can learn. And many subjects why you want to learn the language. And if you're using an iPhone with iOS 14 and later, you can use the Duolingo widget, allowing Duo to remind you that you either have a frozen streak or to continue learning up ur language. Anyone can learn a new language. Even when it's tough and challenging. But when Duolingo was released in 2011, it changed how we learn languages forever. I would love to see people using Duolingo for future generations. This is Duolingo, the best platform for language learning ever! Thank you, Duolingo for making language learning easier for our lives

Fun and Funny (And a lil creepy). So! I have a friend who uses this app and he said it was good and fun and I should try it! I got the app and started learning Spanish and I progressed pretty far and I never got a long streak because sadly i’m very busy all the time BUT I did have it for like a year or so. I loved it so much and I really think you should get it because it is SO FUN and I have never had a language learning app better then duo! But one day it was glitching and so I tried to delete it and it said “Removing duolingo? You can’t hide from duo…” It freaked me out a bit but i thought maybe the creators did that to encourage people to keep the app and bot give up on it and… I deleted it and waited for a bit to see if it would fix itself and then EVEN THOUGH I deleted the app I got a notification from duolingo accept the app icon looked like shattered glass and the notification said “Come back…” so I was freaking out a bit and I just ignored it and then I checked the app store to see if it was still deleted and I didn’t accidentally download it again or something and it said that it was deleted and then the next day I came back and it was redownloaded… So duolingo redownloaded itself maybe? My phone is old and glitchy and stuff so it was probably just a glitch and this app is really good and I would recommend it because it is a fun learning experience for kids and adults of all ages!

ONE OF THE BEST WOULD RECOMMEND, SOME SMALL SUGGESTIONS AND ISSUES. If you are just starting out on a language this is the app. You learn words effectively and it is very good at encouraging to learn. The unfortunate thing was it got very repetitive and takes some time to get through to learn new words. It was very good when I first started learning Norwegian or Norsk Bokmål. I got the basics but really just basics. Duolingo won’t make you fluent but it is a great starting place and language practice tool to have when first encountering a new language. Don’t expect yourself to learn an entire language with Duolingo alone but it is great when wanting to practice the language you are learning or getting a few new words. Once again, it doesn’t feel like you are making super fast progress or you have grown quickly but I always enjoying going on and practicing. Another problem is that I never really understood why something was some way and Duolingo did not really do a good job explaining the reasons behind something so I was left confused. The good thing is these questions can be answered on the forum that Duolingo provides. Also the pronunciation does not appear to be given. All you could do was hear the word but I could never tell if the letter “d” was pronounced at the end of some words or not. I had to learn this outside of Duolingo. To conclude this is SPECTACULAR language learning app and I recommend it for all who want to try a new language.

Duo review. Hello to my reader, I love duo always have but there’s some things I don’t like about it. For example:I have to keep my streak going that’s supposed to make the game more fun and Encourage the player to play daily, but sometimes I’m a bit more busy than most days and am unable to participate in my daily game. Which I know there is streak freezes but alas they are limited to how much you earn by playing, playing is extremely fun and it takes only 1-2 minutes of your time to play and learn. That’s super enjoyable for people like me who don’t have that much time to play, and I love that you can start a family plan, and add some friends and or family to learn and do daily activities, Overall Duolingo is an awesome experience for all ages. Which is nice but I wish that maybe you can pick exactly what you want to learn, or let them have some mini games that have different categories from the language your learning, I’m also aware that you can learn multiple languages at a time, and I’d love to learn Spanish and Arabic at the same time. But I’m not completely sure how to operate that soo, I’d also like to suggest a tutorial when you first start and if you forgot when your in the app and past the instructions. Overall this app is one of the best to learn from if you want to learn with ur family and friends, or maybe you’d like to by yourself, ether way this app is amazing and I love it. Deepest regards: Duolingo user1