Duolingo: Language & Chess

Name: Duolingo: Language & Chess
Rating: 4.8 (121691 reviews)
Author: Duolingo

Learn Spanish, Maths & more

Free · In-App Purchases

122k Ratings
Awards

Editors’ Choice

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Age Rating

4+
Years
Chart

No. 2
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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4.8

out of 5

122k 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!
Thank you from Qazaqstan
21/08/2024
Алаща
Hi, I am writing this review using Google Translate. I have 26 days of intensive training. Your program helps me a lot not to quit and not to forget to study the language, and this is the most difficult thing in our busy times. I have a small suggestion for developers. What if in tasks with a pronoun and in others, at the beginning of registration, the user is allowed to write the names of their acquaintances, even the same friends subscribers. For example, as a person from an average city in Kazakhstan, people with the names Ben and Maxim are still far from me. I think it will be interesting for the user. If the problem is with age and gender, you can ask the name of your Grandmother. :) Thanks again, I hope I will write the next review myself, without the help of a translator
Thank you from Qazaqstan
21/08/2024
Алаща

Hi, I am writing this review using Google Translate. I have 26 days of intensive training. Your program helps me a lot not to quit and not to forget to study the language, and this is the most difficult thing in our busy times. I have a small suggestion for developers. What if in tasks with a pronoun and in others, at the beginning of registration, the user is allowed to write the names of their acquaintances, even the same friends subscribers. For example, as a person from an average city in Kazakhstan, people with the names Ben and Maxim are still far from me. I think it will be interesting for the user. If the problem is with age and gender, you can ask the name of your Grandmother. :) Thanks again, I hope I will write the next review myself, without the help of a translator
The last update
06/09/2022
GuziSofia
Dear Duo creators, I was really upset with the last update. I usually like new things, but this time, it’s still hard to get used to this carousel, to keep track of what I have done, it became long long list with all the lessons I did. Especially, now you just don’t go back to do the lessons you finished, one of the reasons, that even for completed lessons you have to spend hearts. I loved going back and do lessons many times before I finally remember vocab, or grammar. But now, I finish lesson, and much less practice it. I don’t believe now my language skills will become better faster. Even if I buy the Super Duo, it is not going to change the fact, that it became really inconvenient to practice. At least I still cannot find what lessons that I wanted to practice yet after update. Never ending scrolling ((( I’m sorry, I love Duolingo. But right now, I don’t feel like I used to before, when I run to do the lessons. Hope this comment helps. Thank you for your consideration.
The last update
06/09/2022
GuziSofia

Dear Duo creators, I was really upset with the last update. I usually like new things, but this time, it’s still hard to get used to this carousel, to keep track of what I have done, it became long long list with all the lessons I did. Especially, now you just don’t go back to do the lessons you finished, one of the reasons, that even for completed lessons you have to spend hearts. I loved going back and do lessons many times before I finally remember vocab, or grammar. But now, I finish lesson, and much less practice it. I don’t believe now my language skills will become better faster. Even if I buy the Super Duo, it is not going to change the fact, that it became really inconvenient to practice. At least I still cannot find what lessons that I wanted to practice yet after update. Never ending scrolling ((( I’m sorry, I love Duolingo. But right now, I don’t feel like I used to before, when I run to do the lessons. Hope this comment helps. Thank you for your consideration.
I expected more of this app
09/02/2025
Psevdonimneskaju
Started learning Italian and susbscribed for the super package. Been using it for 2 weeks straight. Pros are: engaging, easy to use, pleasant looking, interactive app with nice gamification which motivates you to compete and score. Cons are: doesn’t recognize misstypes so the whole task is considered mistaken, exercises are all the same word for word which irritates, beacuse you need to the same task all over again many many times, they don’t change and become more challenging depending on your answers. They are super easy to do and doesn’t help in learning or memorizing. The matching words exercise used to be exciting at first, but now it’s all obvious because they use all the same words, instead of utilizing other words that we could learn
I expected more of this app
09/02/2025
Psevdonimneskaju

Started learning Italian and susbscribed for the super package. Been using it for 2 weeks straight. Pros are: engaging, easy to use, pleasant looking, interactive app with nice gamification which motivates you to compete and score. Cons are: doesn’t recognize misstypes so the whole task is considered mistaken, exercises are all the same word for word which irritates, beacuse you need to the same task all over again many many times, they don’t change and become more challenging depending on your answers. They are super easy to do and doesn’t help in learning or memorizing. The matching words exercise used to be exciting at first, but now it’s all obvious because they use all the same words, instead of utilizing other words that we could learn

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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.

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Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.

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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
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