Duolingo

I would never pay after using the free for a period of time. It failed to bring me up to speed and I'm now having more success with another free site. I also really hated how they penalize you for making a mistake. I find that I learn best from my mistakes, if I'm discouraged from making them I'll never learn. After completing 20 lessons I had to stop because I continued to test at a beginner level. I am making progress with two other sites.

This use to be a good app. You could always go back to previous lessons to refresh. Not anymore. Make a mistake, lose a heart. Lose 5 hearts and you're done. Can't go any further unless you sign up and then you can use gems to get more hearts. Up until this change I thought duolingo was good but now I'll search for another free app.

I've learned a lot of words and phrases with Duolingo. The thing I'm most concerned about is the stories are often about « friends » lying to each other and taking advantage of each other. I don't think this is an okay subtext to be teaching especially as the app brags about teaching more kids a language then they would be learning in school. How to lie and bully? Really?

The learning tool is basic and really only good to build and reinforce vocabulary. The pronunciation tool needs a lot of work and the voices used to speak range from comic to inaudible. No matter how many times I make my profile private and turn off leaderboards duolingo makes my profile public again and turns leaderboards back on. I hate the cartoonish displays and the leaning paths. If you're using it for free and don't mind your privacy violated and info exposed have at it. Don't pay for it. You will not "learn" much if anything. I've used the program regularly since 2016 and while I appreciate that it's help
Me build vocabulary it works against grammar, pronunciation and real learning.

My daughter enjoys the app on her Ipad. She uses it to learn some languages. She especially likes using it while in the car and it keeps her busy and happy. It's easy to use so she does not need my help.

I liked Duolingo at first but the further I go in my lessons the more useless phrases I learn. I've been learning Swedish for an upcoming trip to Sweden and what I'm learning on Duolingo is totally useless! I just learned "Hon lyssnar på musik medan hon duschar" Swedish translation "She listens to music while she showers" and "flodhästen ar skrammande" translation "the hippo is scary" and "pingvinen behöver vatten" translation "The penguin needs water" Duolingo? Tell me when I'm ever going to need to say these things? I seriously doubt that there are penguins and hippos running around the streets of Stockholm! I'll admit I did learn some basic conversational skills but I need to learn more and Duolingo isn't working. I'll be canceling my subscription and find a better app to learn Swedish.

Support is none existent, There was a discussion forum but that has gone. Correct answers are marked wrong.

Duolingo is a blast as you work your way past he Diamond League - winning 1st place. Now I don't have the paid version anymore. So Duo stopped teaching and left me hanging with the same 5 words like a broken record. No real grammar but enough vocabulary for transitioning to another learning platform. So yes, the paid version is fun and effective up to 2000 words. That is why I recommend Duo and his friends.

Great introduction to a large variety of languages, fun and easy to use. The service is constantly being improved. One slight drawback is that their scoring system, if you care about this, has become extremely muddled through constant tinkering. It's not a big deal, it doesn't affect the learning content, which is outstanding; but presumably Duolingo thinks it serves a motivational purpose since they offer it. It is therefore somewhat frustrating to be scored separately on different devices, and penalized hundreds of points if you use the wrong device on a particular day. I asked them about this once, and (unusually for Duolingo) got a reply: "We decided to do it like that." OK then. I still recommend it, it's my favorite app.

I am not quite sure why Duolingo changed their format regarding the amount of
''skill points" from 10 to 3 for lessons already learned. Via E-mail Duolingo incites competition between users stating " X person has x amount of points, are you just going to sit there?" It seems incomprehensible to work so hard for so little! This sounds a little " Big Brother-ish " to me, where DL is monitoring what we do and how we do it. Why not raise the skill points for new lessons to 15 and leave the lessons learned@ 10? Too much work for just 3 SP's.

Duolingo can be free but you will have tons of adds that interrupt. It is designed to be a highly competive app in which you progress to different levels while competing with others. People can pay to assist with accumulating mega points. You unfortunately cannot choose to forego being dragged in to the levels. It teaches you to read the language but not really to be fluent. They dont adequately explain grammar rules, and you cannot hit a back button to review your previous screens while going through lessons.at least Ive never been able to do so. It does teach vocabulary in the language you choose. They also have many different languages to choose from. You can pay a small monthly fee to eliminate the adds, which is worth it and means the overall cost is reasonable.

I noticed not long ago that i cared more about some of the characters in my game and their visually tracked progress mostly in part of a formulated concept that makes me invested in these characters. I broke my gaming habit to develop better habits like reading and designing and general learning. I heard duolingo mention in a speech by bill gates and thought, if its gotten that much buzz it was probably something to at least check out. So its free and uses the game layout to make myself interested in my own skills and development/progress, a much worthier cause and better use of these manipulation systems. I hope to see this site develop further and possibly get involved with the community and want more company's like this helping people develop skills.

One of the best language learning apps is free. Amazing. It teaches you by having you answering questions and inferring the content. Quite brilliant. I try and do a lesson nightly before bed when I can. One minor complain though: I think having fictional languages like Klingon is fun but there's so many other real languages you don't have. Why not Georgian for example, one of the worlds first writing systems. Or many other languages.

Un-necessary animals, frequent notifications and the obvious spying are just some of the reasons for deleting duolingo.

I highly recommend you to turn away from duolingo and select other language apps

I have used this app since 2019 and it used to be a great app for neurodivergent learners but they completely changed it so you can no longer personalize your learning experience and learn at your own pace. Every recent design choice seems like an FU to neurodivergent people. The new layout is visually overwhelming. Nothing is clearly labeled or distinct and it's very difficult to see how far along you are in your course or go back a review a lesson without scrolling for an hour and simply getting lost. Good luck trying to remember which unit including the color names in because it's nearly impossible to figure out, Opening this app depresses me.

I am studying 5 languages on Duolingo and have been with them since 2018. Their approach does have merit so I wouldn't be totally negative by any means. I have learned a great deal consistently from the app having missed less than 10 days of learning and I have memorized over 1500. Words in that time. The reason I don't rate it any higher is for the following: I) lack of customer support, 2) treating language learning as a competitive game exclusively by promoting and demoting people according to changing point structures at their whims. Learning language IS NOT a game, but a serious endeavor! I will be looking elsewhere soon. At the same time I am positive about Duolingo's future and will continue to work on it and support it. They gave me two years for free and I decided to give them money in appreciation. Thanks Duolingo!