Duolingo: Language & Chess

Name: Duolingo: Language & Chess
Rating: 4.8 (123195 reviews)
Author: Duolingo

Languages, Math, Music & Chess

Free · In-App Purchases

123k Ratings
Awards

Editors’ Choice

Apps
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Education
Developer

Duolingo
Language

EN
+ 28 More
Size

521.5
MB

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 keep you motivated to build solid skills across language, math and music. • 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 300+ million learners. Stay motivated with competitive Leaderboards as you learn 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, and even High Valyrian. And now, learn Math and Music with our newest courses! What the world is saying about Duolingo: “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 “Our favorite language app…” - CNET 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. 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

Events

MAJOR UPDATE
Play your friends in chess

You can now play a friend in chess on Duolingo. Invite a friend and see who rules the board.
MAJOR UPDATE
Practice is now for everyone

Review mistakes and sharpen skills any time you want. Now available for everyone in the Practice tab!

Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

123k 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!
Good but still missing key things
19/07/2024

Tollpihe
This app is a useful tool to have an insight into a new language, and after finishing the Finnish course, I miss a few important things. The grammar! I know you advertise yourself differently but a few sentences about the new grammar concepts wouldn’t hurt.Too much repetition! Repeating is important but not the way you are doing - repeating the same few sentences during an entire lesson. Variety is important as well to not get bored soon. The daily practice is a disaster! It’s not a true revision/practice! The same 2-3 sentences are - literally - repeated over and over and over and over. I lost my patience and stopped doing them. Missing new content! There is a lot I still miss in the Finnish course, and I know it’s a lot of effort, but I think you should invest into developing the courses rather than restrucuring the lessons and the achievements.
Good but still missing key things
19/07/2024

Tollpihe

This app is a useful tool to have an insight into a new language, and after finishing the Finnish course, I miss a few important things. The grammar! I know you advertise yourself differently but a few sentences about the new grammar concepts wouldn’t hurt.Too much repetition! Repeating is important but not the way you are doing - repeating the same few sentences during an entire lesson. Variety is important as well to not get bored soon. The daily practice is a disaster! It’s not a true revision/practice! The same 2-3 sentences are - literally - repeated over and over and over and over. I lost my patience and stopped doing them. Missing new content! There is a lot I still miss in the Finnish course, and I know it’s a lot of effort, but I think you should invest into developing the courses rather than restrucuring the lessons and the achievements.
STOP the auto updates between actual updates pls!!
17/04/2024

Maestroo7
I’ve been playing Duolingo for years, it’s a lot of fun. But you guys, usually without a notice, change the outlook of the app overnight, and out of nowhere you add and remove/replace items, tasks, achievements. That is really annoying because I want to install new updates on my time. Just now I was finally working on completing my LAST achievement, the one where you have to complete 750 quests. I was at 724 yesterday. Once completed, I would have had ALL my achievements completed (which however COULD be a new landmark). Now I open the app, suddenly looks different, feels different, and my achievements are GONE. Changed in this case means gone. But one new achievements says I haven’t corrected 10 mistakes yet?? How?? Yet all the data with actual value are now visible again, best personal XP (I literally had to keep a daily track in my Notes app because that feature was removed in July, track your daily XP, any XP not just the record) So idk if anyone ever will read this, adding up the daily XP is still horribly inconsistent in the app but that was a previous ‘review’; so I guess it doesn’t really matter. I’m still using the app because I love the learning… and I’m hoping (unless you guys change and remove the Daily Streak feature) to reach my Day 1000 in just 30 days… Fingers crossed!
STOP the auto updates between actual updates pls!!
17/04/2024

Maestroo7

I’ve been playing Duolingo for years, it’s a lot of fun. But you guys, usually without a notice, change the outlook of the app overnight, and out of nowhere you add and remove/replace items, tasks, achievements. That is really annoying because I want to install new updates on my time. Just now I was finally working on completing my LAST achievement, the one where you have to complete 750 quests. I was at 724 yesterday. Once completed, I would have had ALL my achievements completed (which however COULD be a new landmark). Now I open the app, suddenly looks different, feels different, and my achievements are GONE. Changed in this case means gone. But one new achievements says I haven’t corrected 10 mistakes yet?? How?? Yet all the data with actual value are now visible again, best personal XP (I literally had to keep a daily track in my Notes app because that feature was removed in July, track your daily XP, any XP not just the record) So idk if anyone ever will read this, adding up the daily XP is still horribly inconsistent in the app but that was a previous ‘review’; so I guess it doesn’t really matter. I’m still using the app because I love the learning… and I’m hoping (unless you guys change and remove the Daily Streak feature) to reach my Day 1000 in just 30 days… Fingers crossed!
Used to be great, but not anymore
01/06/2025

adder6
Of the 10 main menu items, 4 relates to account, subscription and monetization, 3 are quests and challenges (that I find dumb), the others are main course selection, main course itself, and a group menu including feed, account and practice(!). Yes, only 1 of the 10 serves learning purpose directly! Right now half of the visible features are not available, because I’m not in the top subscription category. The UI elements are just there, to remind me, that my family is not paying enough, although we chose annual subscription. It’s very hard to stay focused during learning sessions, due to numerous quest, social, and monetization annoyances that keep popping up. The UX really went down the slope and it gets worse with every update. The social features are forced and in your face, yet incredibly shallow, one can’t even message other learners. The learning path gets updated retroactively with material of questionable quality, I can’t go back and practice old lectures anymore without bumping into broken or low quality exercises. I don’t remember these bad quality exercises a few months ago! I have a 3 year streak of learning Spanish and having fun here but I’m considering leaving, because it’s not doing it anymore. Textbook example of enshttification, I don’t recommend it to new learners.
Used to be great, but not anymore
01/06/2025

adder6

Of the 10 main menu items, 4 relates to account, subscription and monetization, 3 are quests and challenges (that I find dumb), the others are main course selection, main course itself, and a group menu including feed, account and practice(!). Yes, only 1 of the 10 serves learning purpose directly! Right now half of the visible features are not available, because I’m not in the top subscription category. The UI elements are just there, to remind me, that my family is not paying enough, although we chose annual subscription. It’s very hard to stay focused during learning sessions, due to numerous quest, social, and monetization annoyances that keep popping up. The UX really went down the slope and it gets worse with every update. The social features are forced and in your face, yet incredibly shallow, one can’t even message other learners. The learning path gets updated retroactively with material of questionable quality, I can’t go back and practice old lectures anymore without bumping into broken or low quality exercises. I don’t remember these bad quality exercises a few months ago! I have a 3 year streak of learning Spanish and having fun here but I’m considering leaving, because it’s not doing it anymore. Textbook example of enshttification, I don’t recommend it to new learners.

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Size: 521.5 MB
Category: Education
Compatibility: Requires iOS 17.0 or later.

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English, Arabic, Bengali, Czech, Dutch, Filipino, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
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