Duolingo: Language Lessons

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.5
35.3M reviews
500M+
Downloads
Editors' Choice
Content rating
Rated for 3+
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About this app

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

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

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

• Build real-world math skills – from calculating tips to identifying patterns – and sharpen your mental math in our Math course. Learn foundational topics like multiplication, fractions, geometry and more, and keep your brain sharp with more challenging exercises, games, and word problems.

• Learn how to read music and play popular songs on your device in our Music course – no piano or instrument required! Using an on-screen keyboard, you’ll learn bit-by-bit, from finding notes on the keyboard to playing your first song.

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

Why Duolingo?

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

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

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

• Join millions of learners. Stay motivated with competitive Leaderboards as you learn alongside our global community.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Send any feedback to android@duolingo.com

Use Duolingo on the Web at https://www.duolingo.com

Privacy Policy: https://www.duolingo.com/privacy
Updated on
Aug 5, 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
33.5M reviews
Dewberry Issle
May 1, 2025
Great app for language learning, honestly. Though I wish it was a bit slow-paced as sometimes it's hard to catch up on, other than that, perfect app. Have over 150 day streak and plan to keep extending. Also : I really, really hope they add a messaging feature for friends. Like private messages. Made friends, now I'm even in love with someone there. Sounds silly, I know. But I really wish we had a way to communicate. Overall I think it'd be fun to be able to send messages to our friends on Duo.
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WISDOM
May 21, 2025
Love Duolingo! Learning with friends is fun. Leaderboards motivate me. But, Duolingo provides interactive lessons, and lacks grammar rules explanations. It is difficult to grasp the grammar rules with just a lot of examples. It would be useful if you include a phrasebook, word list, more free streak freezes (because of our annual cultural festival where we don't read, write, or study for 2 days) I use it as supplement for my learning along with other 3 apps, so these aren't deal-breakers for me.
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Greg Collins
July 12, 2025
Duolingo is kinda fun, and it helps dig up my old high school Spanish. I use the Max version, and my only complaint is the video calls with Lily. If you use more than half a dozen words, it seems to get confused and sits there for a long time. sometimes, even when you answer with short answers, it's still seems to freeze up for a long time. I think it would be nice if the calls with Lily were something off in the options instead of something you have to do.
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What’s new

Thanks for updating! This version includes:
– Performance enhancements to support daily rituals
– Visual adjustments to improve clarity of the path
– Streak Society members now see more than before
– Removed the bones. The bones were a distraction. The bones are gone now.

As always, consistency is key.
Complete your lesson. Stay on the path. Do not look away.

The owl sees all 👁️👁️👁️