Duolingo is a fantastic app for learning languages that makes studying fun and accessible for everyone. Personally, I believe that one of its biggest strengths is its ability to keep users engaged and committed to learning the language they want to learn. They do this by having things like leaderboards, streaks, and achievements. The app itself has many widely spoken languages such as English, Chinese, Japanese, etc. But, also still takes into account the less common language options such as Welsh or Irish. Moreover, it doesn't take too long to complete a lesson, which means that you don't have to dedicate more than 15 minutes of your day if you don't want to.Some drawbacks that the app might have however, is that if you wish to learn a lot in a short period of time, you most likely will need to purchase the premium version. The premium version provides you with infinite lives and more options to help you practice, which is helpful but can also be costly if you're on a budget. Furthermore, one thing that I personally struggled with was the fact that there wasn't an in-depth explanation regarding questions you get wrong, and there weren't any tips that could help me as I would learn.To improve the app, Duolingo could have an extra section regarding tips for success and maybe adding explanations for tedious topics such as the grammar rules of the language. Something else that I would recommend is having a phonetic section for each of the words to help you know how to pronounce certain words. Lastly, reducing the prices of the premium version or having more perks for the free version could make the app further accessible for everyone. All in all, I highly recommend using Duolingo for all of your language-learning needs, but these suggestions could help make the app even better than it currently is.

Duolingo is one of the best apps out there than can aid you to learn languages. Weekly leagues to motivate you to spend time to do your lessons and rank up to the next league. Ads are there after each lesson, but it is negligible (10-15s; just to keep it free)However there are some issues I’d like to highlight.Lessons: there seems to be some error such that lessons don’t load when switching Duo from the iPhone to the iPad or vice versa. The only workaround is that i have uninstalled the app from one device to be able to properly use it on the other.Ads: i did mention that the ads are short & negligible. However, the ads seemed to auto-pause itself after lesson during the “double lesson XP in 15 mins”. Now I suspect this is a bug/glitch because it happens during the double xp thing but after the 15 minutes is over, the ads doesn’t auto-pause.Leagues: like football, there are promotions and demotions. Top 10 gets promoted to the upper leagues while the bottom 3 gets demoted. The highest league is Diamond, where if you finished first, you’ll unlock “Legendary” skill. I noticed that some players who have achieved this is trying perhaps too hard to win it again (not giving other players a chance to win). Maybe pooling players who have finished #1 in Diamond together and separate them from those who haven’t would help other players to acheive the said skill.

I liked Duo initially. Still love the cute characters. But I am going to admit it depends on your learning style as well. I think some people love the competition to see where they fall in the ‘league’. That doesn’t do it for me. As someone who can be stressed at work and a long day can be tiring, the ‘comparison’ model doesn’t motivate me. It makes me feel bad that I fell down the league, especially when I have to do 14 hours flight travel for work and have no access to wifi for almost a whole day , then gets stressed that I only have a few hours left to open Duo. I also feel that the ‘matching game’ was initially fun, but it’s so frustrating when so many moments are just elbowing you to spend more money on in-app purchases. And I feel the game is rigged with a timer that doesn’t give you enough time… I’m always ‘almost’ there to getting my third star , and time runs out. But of course I can purchase more time. Anyway, I can see this app being great for someone who doesn’t have a whole lot of real life stressors, who doesn’t switch time zones often and who loves the competitive nature of seeing how they hold up next to other users. To me , everyone learns at their own pace, and I don’t feel motivated by the comparison model… I prefer if I did better today compared to last week.

Duolingo’s transition from hearts into energy clearly highlights this corporation’s desire to gain as much profit as possible from users who just want to educate themselves. One energy per question/exercise done is ridiculous. While, yes, you can gain energy from getting five questions answered correctly in a row, this does not compensate for the energy lost. Moreover, the purpose of this whole transition was to not penalise users for their mistakes. How ironic, considering the fact that if you get a question wrong, you waste double the energy and may have to quit the lesson altogether, which wastes time, effort, and is like a kick to the face for your morale. In addition to these factors, free users are forced to watch ads to gain more energy, which gives Duolingo even more revenue. Thus a stranglehold is placed upon those who can’t afford or don’t want to change to super Duolingo - which, I might add, is quite costly - and they have three options: to change to another app, watch adds and waste time, or pay this corporation (note that long-time users to Duolingo are more likely to deviate to the latter two, as they are more committed to this app). Altogether, this action strains the relationship between Duolingo and its clients and many others will also be unhappy.I acknowledge that this is only the testing phase, but where’s the guarantee that they won’t do worse things in the future?If you are insistent on learning languages, I highly recommend that you consider about utilising the app Memrise. I am not sponsored, affiliated, or in contact with Memrise.

So.. from the title, yes, duo did change my life because of their help in learning a bunch of languages. First, I downloaded the app to learn japanese and gosh it helped a lot! My writing, pronounciation and even what word it means. I had lots of fun until i got lazy. I stopped using duolingo not because he was forcing me to learn more, but it was because of my laziness.. well i had to do lots of other work so i didnt have time to do lessons on duolingo. I stopped using this app and a few months later… i came back! Now im willing to continue to learn Japanese, Korean and many more to speak fluently of the language. I cant wait! ✨✨✨ im going to write again soon!Just one more thing, I would love if duolingo added a feature where you can learn how to write essays! Im currently struggling to write perfect essays and always misspell the word.. so i just hope the devs do it! And i love the feature where if you get high streaks youcan get a free premium in a few days.. anyways, gotta go Bye!! ✨🌙(P.S, i came back cus duo’s gunna revive my 44 streak too LOL XD 😜😜)

Duolingo deserves a 5-star rating. They teach you lessons of languages from different countries in a VERY FUN WAY! I got addicted to Duolingo and went up to the obsidian league pretty quick. Speaking about leagues, they have a feature that you gain exp by completing lessons and challenge other users in leagues. They have bronze, silver, gold and many more leagues. If you are not interested in leagues, you can still try the STREAK feature. If you complete 1 lesson a day, your streak goes up by one. This makes learners try to complete lessons everyday. Lastly, you can’t continuously finish lessons 24 hours. They have the energy feature that you can only learn for a limited time. If you want to continue learning, you have to pay gems OR pay real money (which is not worth it…) anyways this is all for my review. Toodles!

Been a paid duolingo user for more than 2 years and never been more annoyed by the amount of unnecessary, time-consuming animation that just increases the time and number of things to click through between lessons. Are you trying to artificially inflate in-app time spent as some kind of engagement metric? I just want a simpler, more straightforward path to starting my next lesson, especially since this is the kinda app meant to fit into busy schedules. Also really puzzled by the decision to move the Practice tab into the three-dot menu. For a LEARNING app you'd think the Practice tab would be given a more prominent and intuitive place on the bottom menu, but that real estate is now being used to promote subscriptions with TWO separate tabs, one advertising Max and another for managing plans (so they can plug their higher-tier subscription). Realistically how often do you need to manage plans compared to start a practice? Can't believe duolingo would compromise user-friendliness for such an obvious hard sell move. I want the old app back.

After EVERY SINGLE game, I will get an external ad or a Super Duolingo promoting ad which are lengthy (for me) and unnecessary. I understand that building this app takes a lot of effort and time and money, but as an user, it is not as enjoyable as it used to be.I have experience where I happily get a free trial and because the setting was that they will remind you two or three days prior to the expiry, and as a human, I tend to forget about the expiry and was immediately charged on expiry date. I had to contact Apple for a refund and in return, they will retrieve the subscription. It was worrying because, the subscription fee is too much for a student like me. The features in the app have now evolved into sort of ‘premium-only’ features. With the newly updated feature - the battery, instead of using hearts, I would use it up in two rounds. It is very frustrating that things are not accessible unless you pay the subscription. I understand that some features should be paid such as the legendary rounds but non-subscribers should have access to more stuff.

It’s quite disappointed with the new updates. I do not expect a renew in the course and the it has completely wiped off my progress. Although there are new elements that are really helping me to improve my vocabulary but it’s more random than the previous version. The updates should be Insert as a new level instead of adding it to previous level and reset the entire course. I have been progressing very well In the old version and now I have to relearn in a new style again. It’s a very good app for language learning and i have been recommending to people around me. Before this, I would give five stars to it but after the update, it takes away my passion to keep learning so I would only give two stars. Please never update and wipe your student’s progress, progression helps us to keep learning.And also, it is becoming more monetary, now even revision is lives based. It used to be free from lives in Japanese course n then changed to new lessons will deduct live if we got wrong now even revision oso deduce our lives. With ads showing up each lesson we complete now. Getting me more frustrated.

Improvements : 1) Allow people to redo character learning. Sometimes I forget characters but I already finished the character learning and would not like to relearn the entire language again. 2) The hearts system is more reasonable than the new ‘energy’ system, so please change it back. It makes sense that you lose a heart from a mistake, then gain hearts from practice. With the energy system, you can’t learn if you don’t have energy, and energy runs out every time you do a question, even if you get it correct. Sometimes you get energy from correct answers but you’ll quickly run out.3) Recently, my friends and I have come across a bug. The course will add a new word and not highlight it. This is alright for usual lessons, but in listening lessons (where a character has a show and calls someone) you can’t see the definition of the words. Basically, new words in are put in and people are expected to just know them without learning them first. Please fix this.4) Words we learn in the course have gotten more random since the update, perhaps look at what words are used more frequently and are more essential for whatever purpose the learner is learning the language for. To do this I think you should bring back the question you used to ask before learners start learning the language, so the course is more useful to them. Feedback : Overall, it was once a really good app that I’d recommend to anyone but now it is just full of many issues.