Duolingo: Language & Chess

Learn Spanish, Maths & more

Free · In-App Purchases

24k Ratings
Awards

Editors’ Choice

Apps
Age Rating

4+
Years
Chart

No. 4
Education
Developer

Duolingo
Language

EN
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516.6
MB

Learn a new language, chess & more 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 & writing to build your vocabulary & grammar skills. Designed by learning experts & loved by hundreds of millions worldwide, our lessons make learning effective & fun and help you prepare for real conversations in Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Italian, German, English and more. And now, you can learn CHESS on Duolingo! Whether you're a total beginner or looking to level up your game, you'll love learning chess the Duolingo way. Play matches and fun chess lessons for all levels, no matter the language - chess, ajedrez, xadrez, schach, Шахматы, الشطرنج. • Chess: Learn the moves, level up your game & play matches in our Chess course. Learn the basics, solve fun chess puzzles & improve your strategy with guided lessons. Whether you're new to chess or already play, our course is designed to help you have fun and build real skills. Checkmate! • Math: Forget lectures and math worksheets! Built by learning experts, our Math course makes math feel like a game. Boost learning and fight the summer slide with standards-aligned math lessons for elementary school, middle school, and high school students. • Music: Learn how to read music & play songs in our Music course, no instrument needed! Using an on-screen keyboard, you'll learn bit-by-bit. Whether you're learning a language for travel, school, career or your brain health, you'll love learning with Duolingo. Why Duolingo? • Duolingo is fun & effective. Game-like language lessons & fun characters help you build speaking, reading, listening, & writing skills, plus enjoy fun chess & competitive online chess in one app. • Duolingo works. Designed by learning experts, Duolingo has a science-based teaching methodology proven to foster long-term knowledge retention across language lessons & chess lessons alike. • Track your progress. Work toward your learning goals with playful rewards & achievements when you make practicing language lessons or chess online part of your daily habit. • Join millions of learners. Stay motivated with competitive Leaderboards as you learn languages & play chess online alongside our global community. • Every 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, & even High Valyrian! And now, learn Math, Music & improve your Chess skills with fun, bite-sized lessons. What the world is saying about Duolingo: "Far & away the best language-learning app." - The Wall Street Journal "This free app & 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 & fun." - Forbes "I Can't Stop Playing Duolingo Chess." - Wired If you like Duolingo, try Super Duolingo for 14 days free! Learn a language fast with no ads & get fun perks like Unlimited Energy & Monthly Streak Repair. If you choose to purchase Super Duolingo, payment will be charged to your Apple account, and your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to your settings in the App Store after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Privacy Policy: https://www.duolingo.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://www.duolingo.com/terms

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Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

24k Ratings

Editors’ Choice

One of our favourite apps for learning another language, the process is genuinely fun. What’s more, all those languages and games are available for free!
Some problems at Duolingo.
17/03/2024
noriii__
Okay, so when i did download this, i wanted to learn japanese, right? And literally when i started with it, it sounded like something else. Like actually, when i went further with japanese, it suddenly asked me to know what “alcohol” means in japanese. And that didn’t happen once. It happened to be in the lessons over and over! But also, people keep saying sometimes that they find sentences/words on the other languages, bad. But mostly the words keep saying weird things that translates later, into english.And also (not every time!) , but there are also some weird stuff happening when you gotta like say the sentences, in the microphone. Like when you say the sentence that is there, the microphone won’t listen. And you gotta say the sentence, way louder. So that the microphone would listen. So, it could sometimes be broken. (the microphone)Well, i forgot to say this but; If you think on the good side, Duolingo isn’t that bad! But they kinda press you to always be on Duolingo, so that you could learn new words. If you couldn’t do that, that would be fine! Because if you have the freezing thingy, (so that you could freeze the streak) you could actually just keep the streak frozen. But only for a day, though.I honestly have this opinion, and if you wonder why i rated this 4 stars, even if i “don’t” really like the game, its because you learn languages here! And, i could say, try to download this! If you don’t really get so many bad words or sentences, then you could really learn the language that you would want! But there aren’t so many languages to learn. I suppose that it is like 15-20 languages in this app. But all of ya’ll creators, you guys are still good, ok?————————————————————(My favourite icons are Lily, Zari, and Duo, of course! ;3 )-from nori/urte:D
Some problems at Duolingo.
17/03/2024
noriii__

Okay, so when i did download this, i wanted to learn japanese, right? And literally when i started with it, it sounded like something else. Like actually, when i went further with japanese, it suddenly asked me to know what “alcohol” means in japanese. And that didn’t happen once. It happened to be in the lessons over and over! But also, people keep saying sometimes that they find sentences/words on the other languages, bad. But mostly the words keep saying weird things that translates later, into english.And also (not every time!) , but there are also some weird stuff happening when you gotta like say the sentences, in the microphone. Like when you say the sentence that is there, the microphone won’t listen. And you gotta say the sentence, way louder. So that the microphone would listen. So, it could sometimes be broken. (the microphone)Well, i forgot to say this but; If you think on the good side, Duolingo isn’t that bad! But they kinda press you to always be on Duolingo, so that you could learn new words. If you couldn’t do that, that would be fine! Because if you have the freezing thingy, (so that you could freeze the streak) you could actually just keep the streak frozen. But only for a day, though.I honestly have this opinion, and if you wonder why i rated this 4 stars, even if i “don’t” really like the game, its because you learn languages here! And, i could say, try to download this! If you don’t really get so many bad words or sentences, then you could really learn the language that you would want! But there aren’t so many languages to learn. I suppose that it is like 15-20 languages in this app. But all of ya’ll creators, you guys are still good, ok?————————————————————(My favourite icons are Lily, Zari, and Duo, of course! ;3 )-from nori/urte:D
Not for serious learners
27 Jan
Dremble
After a 6 months of daily use with premium subscription I can tell it’s a great game to ease into language learning however what I have found for MYSELF is that I keep chasing the XP and trying to mid-max the 3x boosts and ramp-up challenges at the cost of quality learning, meaning learning with purpose and mindfulness, but instead is more of this autopilot get the xp drive. I feel like i could have learned much more just doing daily writing exercises and just googling the words i want to write than what i have been doing these 6 months on Duolingo. What i would like to see Duolingo implementing is the ability to opt out of the ranked system since it’s a double edge sword, to replace it I would add something like “league of your own” where it’s based on your performance for example if i did a lesson and then the next day i did it again with mistakes i should get less points, this should incentivise to individual performance and improvement of the lessons learned, since now with premium subscription I can brute force lessons, brain of, making mistakes without thinking much of whats on screen and still be rewarded. Also add writing exercises like “write invitation for birthday party to Linda” something short where it actually stimulates one’s brain to think and not just deduct the word on til you get it.
Not for serious learners
27 Jan
Dremble

After a 6 months of daily use with premium subscription I can tell it’s a great game to ease into language learning however what I have found for MYSELF is that I keep chasing the XP and trying to mid-max the 3x boosts and ramp-up challenges at the cost of quality learning, meaning learning with purpose and mindfulness, but instead is more of this autopilot get the xp drive. I feel like i could have learned much more just doing daily writing exercises and just googling the words i want to write than what i have been doing these 6 months on Duolingo. What i would like to see Duolingo implementing is the ability to opt out of the ranked system since it’s a double edge sword, to replace it I would add something like “league of your own” where it’s based on your performance for example if i did a lesson and then the next day i did it again with mistakes i should get less points, this should incentivise to individual performance and improvement of the lessons learned, since now with premium subscription I can brute force lessons, brain of, making mistakes without thinking much of whats on screen and still be rewarded. Also add writing exercises like “write invitation for birthday party to Linda” something short where it actually stimulates one’s brain to think and not just deduct the word on til you get it.
Is Duo good?
17/06/2025
Heieb527392?!:’):!;!
I think it is effective and a nice way to learn a new language but it also has some defects , like super and max Duo is not for free. I don’t mean it should be but the free way should be made better as for some people and especially kids the not so free method isn’t really possible. It would just be nice if you could make as many mistakes as you want (but also be limited when it’s being used by unnecessary needs) or not be limited by ads. It would also be kinda nice if Duo asked you first if you would like to compete with other people because sometimes you just want to learn at your speed and not just race just for the top 3 podium place. I think also it would be nice to get some explaining when it comes to grammar and the ways where to put words in the sentence and how to make the right sentence without messing up the word placements because it’s hard to understand some language word placement in phrases. In conclusion I think Duo is a great place to learn something new but it can always improve in various methods. Thank you
Is Duo good?
17/06/2025
Heieb527392?!:’):!;!

I think it is effective and a nice way to learn a new language but it also has some defects , like super and max Duo is not for free. I don’t mean it should be but the free way should be made better as for some people and especially kids the not so free method isn’t really possible. It would just be nice if you could make as many mistakes as you want (but also be limited when it’s being used by unnecessary needs) or not be limited by ads. It would also be kinda nice if Duo asked you first if you would like to compete with other people because sometimes you just want to learn at your speed and not just race just for the top 3 podium place. I think also it would be nice to get some explaining when it comes to grammar and the ways where to put words in the sentence and how to make the right sentence without messing up the word placements because it’s hard to understand some language word placement in phrases. In conclusion I think Duo is a great place to learn something new but it can always improve in various methods. Thank you

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