Duolingo: Language Lessons

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.5
37.2M reviews
500M+
Downloads
Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this app

Learn a new language with the world’s most-downloaded education app! Duolingo is the fun, free app for learning 40+ languages through quick, bite-sized lessons. Practice speaking, reading, listening, and writing to build your vocabulary and grammar skills.

Designed by language experts and loved by hundreds of millions of learners worldwide, Duolingo helps you prepare for real conversations in Spanish, French, Chinese, Italian, German, English, and more.

And now, you can learn Math and Music the Duolingo way!

• Build real-world math skills – from calculating tips to identifying patterns – and sharpen your mental math in our Math course.

• Learn how to read music and play familiar songs on your device in our Music course – no instrument required.

Whether you’re learning for travel, school, career, family and friends, or your brain health, you’ll love learning with Duolingo.

Why Duolingo?

• Duolingo is fun and effective. Game-like lessons and fun characters help you build solid speaking, reading, listening, and writing skills.

• Duolingo works. Designed by learning experts, Duolingo has a science-based teaching methodology proven to foster long-term knowledge retention.

• Track your progress. Work toward your learning goals with playful rewards and achievements when you make practicing a daily habit!

• Join 500+ million learners. Stay motivated with competitive Leaderboards as you learn alongside our global community.

• Every language course is free. Learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Turkish, Dutch, Irish, Danish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Esperanto, Polish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Hebrew, Welsh, Arabic, Latin, Hawaiian, Scottish Gaelic, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, English, and even High Valyrian! And now, learn Math and Music with our newest courses!

What the world is saying about Duolingo⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️:

Editor's Choice and "Best of the Best” —Google Play

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

“This free app and website is among the most effective language-learning methods I’ve tried… lessons come in the form of brief challenges — speaking, translating, answering multiple-choice questions — that keep me coming back for more.” —The New York Times

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

“...Duolingo is cheerful, lighthearted and fun…” — Forbes

If you like Duolingo, try Super Duolingo for 14 days free! Learn a language fast with no ads, and get fun perks like Unlimited Hearts and Monthly Streak Repair.

Send any feedback to [email protected]

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Updated on
15 Sept 2025
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Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
App activity, App info and performance and Device or other IDs
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 6 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted
Committed to follow the Play Families policy

Ratings and reviews

4.5
35.2M reviews
Michael Wichhart
1 January 2025
I'm no longer able to practice for more than one heart. They also messed with multipliers running out and no more streak freezes from chests. The pop-up ads have become loud, long and intolerable. New exercises have you gambling on what the right answer is, even when there should be multiple possibilities. The free version is no longer what it once was. It's as if they're annoying you to upgrade to the paid version. I have a 3 year streak, yet with the new updates I am no longer a happy user.
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Henk Van de berg
11 September 2025
edit: recently it has been very laggy, when I press the check button it doesn't respond. then I try to press again, but it did respond and then I check my next question instead, which is still blank! this is taking me so many hearts >:V it's a very good app for learning languages, just as good as advertised!, I'm learning Japanese. I thought it would be hard, as the language seems complicated. but i'ts really a breeze with duolingo, you should definitely try it if you want to learn a language.
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34 Outdoor
7 September 2025
I've been using this app for over 1 year now and have 0 complaints. As a free user i can say this: Althoug having acual conversations would be better imo, you create a base of your prefered language, and maybe order a real study later. This is how it served me well, i'm a few days short of having a 1 year streak, and then i'll order one. Best thing about this, i was able to have fun for free while learning a new language, and because of this, i got motivated to pick up a real study.
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What's new

Duo is trading in his usual diet of mice for bugs this week. Yup, we're squashing those pesky bugs to make the experience better for all of you.
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