Duolingo Learn Many Languages for Free App Reviews

This a great app and I have learned a lot from it. I compete on it with my friend and it is super fun? if there was one suggestion I think that the app should also teach you the Spanish alphabet. Thanks for a great app!

And it is free!

Good app to learn a language on or to continue learning a language. Immersion is always the best way. Frustrating now with the hearts system, very off putting, as Id like to continue but just cant for another 24 hours or by doing practice of the most basic of sentences. I am "50% fluent" and have to practice grammar that I learned 10 years ago to get hearts back.

I love this app but it is so confusing to get around! Like what about a home page? And how do you get to settings to delete a course? But otherwise I would recommend it.

This is an adequate way to get the basics of a language, however, I also would like some offline lessons too for when Im not in a wifi zone.

Fun for quick practice, just remember you need to study outside of Duolingo to really become fluent ?

Merci! Jai appris le français!

The health bar prevents learning from happening which has been mentioned in many previous reviews. Regularly when I do practice lessons that should add to my health, the app failed to give me the addition to my health. Growing more and more disappointed with this app with every update, which is really sad cause I used to recommend it to everyone Id run into that even had the smallest desire to learn a language. Just really sad to see a great app fall apart

I used to love this app, but now its becoming more about repetition (which can be great, but to a fault) and less about learning new things. I cant progress to something new until I go over the basics again? And again? I dont have the time to be on the app every single day with the time required to solidify the old words before learning the new. Ugh.

Duolingo is overall a great app. There are a ton of languages that they offer courses on, some Id never even heard of. The app is completely free with little ads. The only ads I ever see are after a have completed a lesson and they are the simple "click to dismiss" type of ad; nit an annoying unskipable 30 second video about something you will never buy. When learning you start off with the very basics where you learn single words and very short phrases. As you progress, you follow a tree down through the skills, learning new words as the phrases get progressively longer. The skills are categorized by topic such as Food, Animals, Basics, etc. Once you have mastered the topic the icon turns gold, but when you come back the next day, that icon may not be gold anymore which is great motivation to reinforce those skills. At the beginning, you set an XP goal for each day which can easily be changed anytime in settings. If you complete earn the set number of XP for that day, you are rewarded with gems and a completion for that day which goes toward your streak. Another tool that should be utilized is the bot feature. Once you complete enough lessons, you can have a text conversation with a bot and click on any words you dont know for a translation. Overall, this app is great. I really have no complaints since the ads arent intrusive or overly frequent and come at appropriate times. Natively speaking English, you can learn over 20 languages completely free. I have yet to see another app on the market that can do that. 5 star, highly recommend.

I must be using this app wrong, because the health system that everyone is complaining about hasnt affected me at all. At least in the Japanese for English speakers course, the health system only appears at all when you attempt to test out of a lesson. Perhaps the other courses are different.

This used to be my favorite app. Just logged on after a hiatus and learned there is a new health bar, making it very frustrating to learn a new language.

I cant thank you enough for adding Japanese! There are a few bugs that I feel should be addressed. (And I realize that this was only recently released so you might still be working the kinks out of it anyway) I guess my biggest annoyance in using is that when I tap on a word to hear it spoken and see the translation, it often uses a different pronunciation of the Kanji than the context demands. It would be very helpful if there was some kind of written pronunciation (either in romaji or hiragana) by each possible translation of the Kanji. My other complaint about the app in general is that its a bit overwhelming when the skills go down bars so fast. I know I dont actually forget things THAT quickly so it would be nice if that was a little more realistic or at least less time consuming to practice each skill again. There are a few other bugs as well that I hope will be worked out as time goes on. UPDATE: I wish there was a feature to mark or save vocabulary words that need more practice so we can study them. It seems like the tiny cards app was made for a similar purpose, but I think it would be much more convenient if they were somehow connected and you could just select the words during a lesson to add to cards/a vocabulary list.

Pretty much self explanatory

Amazing. First suggested app and if you keep up with the work you really do learn the language. Of course, its great to be around the people speaking your desired language but this is a cool way to learn the basics and get comfortable. Provides explanations for complicated topics too via computer.

It is impossible to learn a language (or anything else) if your "teacher" stops teaching. And that is exactly what Duolingo does now that it has been "improved". Make a few mistakes and everything freezes and one cannot go forward, backward, up or down -- though it does promise that it will allow you to begin again sometime in the indeterminate future. Good grief! This used to be one of my favorite apps; now it is virtually worthless.

Fajne ale po co są te serduszka!?

This is a great app. I enjoy the lessons, but wish my progress wouldnt disappear so fast. Also, please add Finnish and Mandarin. Finnish because you have Swedish and Danish. Mandarin because so many people want to learn it.

I love the app Im currently learning Italian to prepare myself for a future class in going to have in high school, the thing I hate about this app is that is the heart thing I feel like I cant really learn, I make a mistake one heart lost out of five and I usually make a mistake or two every time I learn a new topic, then 3 topics in I have no more hearts. Theres some more minor stuff but thats what I hate the most.

I love Duolingo. Im learning so much and its fun, however, this app continues to have bugs left and right. There are consistent updates for "bug squashing" but with every bug squashed another lives on apparently. Im not sure how they continue to deal with problems like... random streak losses, the fact that the vocals will occasionally not work, & once you get deep enough into a language it seems impossible to move forward because you have to go back and relearn previous lessons... which by the way say you will earn health back for but dont.. Duolingo is a great app, they just need a new pest department because the bugs are endless.