Duolingo - Learn Spanish, French and more
By Duolingo
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Description
Duolingo is Apple's iPhone App of the Year!
Duolingo is the world's most popular way to learn languages with over 170 million users.
23 languages to choose from. Super fun and free — Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Irish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Turkish, Norwegian, Polish, Hebrew, Esperanto, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Welsh, Greek, Hungarian, Romanian, and Swahili. Oh, and English too.
"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 can't 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 for free. You have fun while you learn, leveling up and competing with friends.
Yeah, it's pretty sweet.
What's New in Version 5.1.5
- Now you can redo completed lessons without losing any health!
- A bunch of bug fixes and performance improvements.
- We're hiring iOS devs! Help us bring free language education to the world: duolingo.com/jobs
Customer Reviews
Simple and wonderful but limited
The initial language selection is great. Getting started is simple and well thought out. The app overall is well designed, fluid, and I haven't seen any glitches at all. I've gotten more use and much farther in this app than my attention span has let me get in Rosetta Stone.
The incorporation of Japanese into the lineup is great, and the Japanese course still feels like the good old Duolingo. However, the change from one language course to another is confusing. Where did I get gems? What is that heart system supposed to help with instead of discourage people? Why can't I use lingots in one course and can't use gems in another?
The app and learning is free, but paying $10/month to get rid of ads is sort of ridiculous. The ads are not intrusive. Maybe $10/year may be more likely to get my money. I don't really understand the need to pay for gems either, except to be considered a donation to the developer.
German Duolingo glitch!
I'm currently using Duolingo to learn German and have been enjoying the lessons. I have recently run into a problem on the section Phrases 2-5 which follows the Basics 2 lesson. You are given: "Thanks, hello" and a list of 3 answers one of which is, "Danke, guten Tag". I have selected this and the other answers on separate occasions and it never takes any of them as a correct answer. Therefore, I haven't been able to move on to other lessons. If this glitch were corrected I would would love this app and would have rated it 5 stars.
The problem was corrected and I was able to continue onto Phrases 3-5 and Phrases 4-5.🤓. However, I recently went back to Phrases 2-5 for a review and the problem was back. Once again, you are given, "thanks, hello" and two seemingly correct answers "danke, hallo" and "danke, guten tag" neither of which are allowed as an answer.
I have found another problem in Phrases 5-5. You are given "all right" and a list of three possible answers none of which is allowed as an answer.
Language learning made less fun
I think this app is effective and the lessons are great because they mix different modes (reading, writing, listening).
But I have to reduce my rating from before because the latest version has bugs and regressions in it. After meeting your daily goal now you get to claim a reward: it makes you select one of three hidden treasures, but all three choices are the same: 10 gems. Also when you learn a new lesson, the lesson no longer starts with hints for every new vocabulary word. Some new vocabulary words have no hints and if you make enough mistakes it prevents you from completing the lesson until you have more "health." You can earn more health by practicing more (but the practice lessons tend to ask the same questions, so it's more like wasted time than practice) or you can wait for your health to replenish slowly on its own, or you can pay gems (earned or bought) to replenish your health.
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- Free
- Category: Education
- Updated: Jul 17, 2017
- Version: 5.1.5
- Size: 98.7 MB
- Languages: English, Arabic, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Seller: Duolingo, Inc
- © 2015 Duolingo, Inc.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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