Duolingo Learn Many Languages for Free app for iPhone and iPad
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Developer: Duolingo
Free
Current version: 7.33.0, last update: 3 months agoFirst release : 13 Nov 2012
App size: 301.98 Mb
Duolingo is Apples iPhone App of the Year!
Learn Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Irish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, and English. Totally fun. Totally free.
"Far and away the best language-learning app." —The Wall Street Journal
"Duolingo may hold the secret to the future of education."—TIME Magazine
PC Magazine Editors Choice for Language Learning: "Among iPhone apps for learning or practicing a language, you cant beat Duolingo."
"The most productive means of procrastination I’ve ever discovered. The short lesson blocks are painless and peppy, and reaching the next level (and then the level after that) becomes addictive." —Slate
Duolingo is changing the way people learn languages.
With Duolingo, you learn a language completely for free. You have fun while you learn, leveling up and competing with friends.
Yeah, its pretty sweet. thank you
Pros and cons of Duolingo Learn Many Languages for Free app for iPhone and iPad
Duolingo Learn Many Languages for Free app good for
Perfectly designed and set up! An absolute must have when learning a new language!!
I love, love, love this app. Ive been using it for years! My only issue with it is that golden skills dont stay golden long enough. I finally finished every lesson in Spanish a couple days ago, and am now realizing that its going to be nearly impossible to get all the lessons golden if practicing only restores 1-2 bars and they only stay gold a day or 2. Its like I have to redo every Spanish lesson again now but within a couple days rather than over several months. Sé cómo hablar en Español, tu app es un maestro bueno. Pero mi corona solo dice "5% fluent". Quiero mostrar en LinkedIn que puedo hablar español mejor de 5%, porque creo que pueda. Pero lo como es, lo me tomará meses y meses de revista.
This is a great way to keep words active in your vocabulary! Practice for long periods or while waiting for an appointment. Thanks Duo!
im currently learning french, just to refresh myself before school starts again. when im practicing or testing out, i usually get one where two options are correct and one is incorrect. no matter what i choose its s wrong, so i cant pass a certain point
I loved this app so much when I was learning French, but could you PLEASE do a course for learning Korean? Ive been looking for a good app to learn Korean on for YEARS but nothing is as good as Duolingo for learning languages. Thanks for all the work your team puts into this app!
Been using it to brush up on the Japanese Ive learned. I love how it helps during your mistakes so that the lessons/words really sink in for remembrance. Its a really fun app that actually makes me want to keep playing/learning.
Some bad moments
Ive been using the app for a few years. It covers some basic stuff but nothing beats immersing yourself in a culture where you speak with others. Theory end is very weak, imo. Im removing the app today.
I was so excited to get Duolingo again on my new phone but the Hearts system has totally destroyed what made it so effective in the first place. Instead of being able to drill words and phrases I am having difficulty with, which is what helped me better remember them, Im punished by low health and unable to continue for hours at a time (FOUR HOURS just to earn a single amount of health which if its a section Im already having trouble with basically means Ill end up being unable to get even halfway through a lesson). Of course you can renew one bar of health...if you sit through a commercial or spend an absurd amount of gems. This is so disgustingly exploitative and so utterly subverts the initial attraction and purpose of the app that I am deleting it and wont be returning until the Hearts system is removed.
"Health" needs to go, or at least make it easier to regain health. This app is currently broken, on purpose, for an obvious money grab.
Duolingo Japanese is still in beta apparently. Was on a 43 day chain, then backed up to do some practice. The app wants $6.95 to restore the chain.
I think not. Something wrong there.
I am or was planning from using it to learn some Hebrew. But this is not for beginners. Hebrew letters if you dont know them look like random lines. How can you translate a word or phrase when you dont know what the letters are or are supposed to sound like? Cant yall figure out a way to teach letters and sounds and all of that. Idk.
I used to love this app but now hate the constant ads, "health" that limits the number of mistakes you can make and constantly needing to refresh "weak words" (Duolingo seems to think words are forgotten way faster than they actually are...) etc. also the paid app is too expensive so I will just be switching to Memrise