Duolingo: Language & Chess

Name: Duolingo: Language & Chess
Rating: 4.7 (24398 reviews)
Author: Duolingo

Learn Spanish, Maths & more

Free · In-App Purchases

24k Ratings
Awards

Editors’ Choice

Apps
Age Rating

4+
Years
Chart

No. 1
Education
Developer

Duolingo
Language

EN
+ 32 More
Size

514.6
MB

Learn a new language, chess & more 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 & writing to build your vocabulary & grammar skills. Designed by learning experts & loved by hundreds of millions worldwide, our lessons make learning effective & fun and help you prepare for real conversations in Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Italian, German, English and more. And now, you can learn CHESS on Duolingo! Whether you're a total beginner or looking to level up your game, you'll love learning chess the Duolingo way. Play matches and fun chess lessons for all levels, no matter the language - chess, ajedrez, xadrez, schach, Шахматы, الشطرنج. • Chess: Learn the moves, level up your game & play matches in our Chess course. Learn the basics, solve fun chess puzzles & improve your strategy with guided lessons. Whether you're new to chess or already play, our course is designed to help you have fun and build real skills. Checkmate! • Math: Forget lectures and math worksheets! Built by learning experts, our Math course makes math feel like a game. Boost learning and fight the summer slide with standards-aligned math lessons for elementary school, middle school, and high school students. • Music: Learn how to read music & play songs in our Music course, no instrument needed! Using an on-screen keyboard, you'll learn bit-by-bit. Whether you're learning a language for travel, school, career or your brain health, you'll love learning with Duolingo. Why Duolingo? • Duolingo is fun & effective. Game-like language lessons & fun characters help you build speaking, reading, listening, & writing skills, plus enjoy fun chess & competitive online chess in one app. • Duolingo works. Designed by learning experts, Duolingo has a science-based teaching methodology proven to foster long-term knowledge retention across language lessons & chess lessons alike. • Track your progress. Work toward your learning goals with playful rewards & achievements when you make practicing language lessons or chess online part of your daily habit. • Join millions of learners. Stay motivated with competitive Leaderboards as you learn languages & play chess online 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, & even High Valyrian! And now, learn Math, Music & improve your Chess skills with fun, bite-sized lessons. What the world is saying about Duolingo: "Far & away the best language-learning app." - The Wall Street Journal "This free app & 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 & fun." - Forbes "I Can't Stop Playing Duolingo Chess." - Wired If you like Duolingo, try Super Duolingo for 14 days free! Learn a language fast with no ads & get fun perks like Unlimited Energy & 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

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Ratings & Reviews

4.7

out of 5

24k 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!
I love the old Duolingo better😫
16/02/2023
mayYearn
So here’s the thing… the new update of Duolingo is awesome but I find it difficult to practice my Chinese lessons… It’s more difficult and too challenging now which is very discouraging. I love the interface which have nice designs and a better look but the old style of learning was way better and I enjoyed my lessons. If learning Chinese becomes a bit challenging, I could always sharpen my old skills (words/lessons) and then come back to my current lesson. It’s not the same for the new update. The new update also takes a lot of gems to even take side quests. Also, if you could treat the other languages like how you treat French, I believe learning would be more fun and easy. I see myself taking more of my French lessons just because I find the Chinese lessons too difficult and want to protect my streak.
I love the old Duolingo better😫
16/02/2023
mayYearn

So here’s the thing… the new update of Duolingo is awesome but I find it difficult to practice my Chinese lessons… It’s more difficult and too challenging now which is very discouraging. I love the interface which have nice designs and a better look but the old style of learning was way better and I enjoyed my lessons. If learning Chinese becomes a bit challenging, I could always sharpen my old skills (words/lessons) and then come back to my current lesson. It’s not the same for the new update. The new update also takes a lot of gems to even take side quests. Also, if you could treat the other languages like how you treat French, I believe learning would be more fun and easy. I see myself taking more of my French lessons just because I find the Chinese lessons too difficult and want to protect my streak.
Doing it for the streaks
22 Aug
Arkersh
I know the losing-streak threat helps motivate me to do my lessons daily, but lately I feel like I’m doing them more for the streak than for the actual learning.I’ve been doing the same old lesson for about four months now just to maintain my streak, and I don’t feel like I’m genuinely learning or progressing anymore.I think the streak has become the goal instead of a motivation to learn. I want to get back to actually enjoying the lessons, learning new things, and improving my Spanish rather than just doing the bare minimum every day to keep a number alive.
Doing it for the streaks
22 Aug
Arkersh

I know the losing-streak threat helps motivate me to do my lessons daily, but lately I feel like I’m doing them more for the streak than for the actual learning.I’ve been doing the same old lesson for about four months now just to maintain my streak, and I don’t feel like I’m genuinely learning or progressing anymore.I think the streak has become the goal instead of a motivation to learn. I want to get back to actually enjoying the lessons, learning new things, and improving my Spanish rather than just doing the bare minimum every day to keep a number alive.
Troubleshooting and personal complaints
7 Jan
True North 7810
I’ve been using Duolingo for a while on my mom’s account and at the time it worked fine, but when I downloaded it on my phone quite a few changes caught my eye. First of all the hearts were replaced by this weird energy thing that gets deducted with every question, instead of every wrong question. This has significantly reduced my learning. Isn’t Duolingo supposed to be a “free” learning app? Yet you make the free plan rubbish, bombard us with ads at the end every lesson and make everything about “Super” and “Max”! Additionally whenever I try the speaking exercises, the app doesn’t recognize me. At first I thought my accent was bad then when I used a professional Spanish speaker I found on the internet I realized it wasn’t me but the app. Please fix this glitch as soon as you can. Duolingo is a very fun app and I don’t want it to be ruined by greed.
Troubleshooting and personal complaints
7 Jan
True North 7810

I’ve been using Duolingo for a while on my mom’s account and at the time it worked fine, but when I downloaded it on my phone quite a few changes caught my eye. First of all the hearts were replaced by this weird energy thing that gets deducted with every question, instead of every wrong question. This has significantly reduced my learning. Isn’t Duolingo supposed to be a “free” learning app? Yet you make the free plan rubbish, bombard us with ads at the end every lesson and make everything about “Super” and “Max”! Additionally whenever I try the speaking exercises, the app doesn’t recognize me. At first I thought my accent was bad then when I used a professional Spanish speaker I found on the internet I realized it wasn’t me but the app. Please fix this glitch as soon as you can. Duolingo is a very fun app and I don’t want it to be ruined by greed.

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Provider: Duolingo, Inc
Size: 514.6 MB
Category: Education
Compatibility: Requires iOS 17.0 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.

iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.

Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages: English and 32 more

English, Arabic, Bengali, Czech, Dutch, Filipino, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Marathi, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
Age Rating: 4+

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