Duolingo - Language Lessons

What is Duolingo - Language Lessons?

Duolingo is a gamified, language learning app geared towards users of all ages. With its friendly approach and frequent updates, the Duolingo mobile app is highly recommended for children trying to learn another language. Its secret: making the process convenient and genuinely fun.

Duolingo is available in both the App Store and the Google Play Store. It is rated for users of all ages and features both in-app purchases and advertisements.

Engaging mini-games test students’ reading, writing, and speaking skills, and Duolingo users can join language clubs (where you can encourage and compete with other members) adds a great social element.

The Duolingo mobile app is free, though a subscription operation is available for users who want to do without in-app advertisements. Duolingo requires users register an email address with the company, which is used as a login and for optional push notifications.

Users appreciate the fun and low-key style of Duolingo's approach to language instruction, with the added convenience of being able to practice their foreign language skills on their mobile app whenever and wherever it's convenient.

Duolingo began as a project of  Luis von Ahn, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and inventor of the reCAPTCHA system, using funding from a National Science Foundation grant and a MacArthur fellowship.

When the first Android version of the Duolingo mobile app was released, it quickly rose to become the most downloaded educational app in the Google Play store.

Seven years later, Duolingo offers courses in 32 languages (including English) and is available for iOS, Android, and Windows 8 and 10 platforms. There are approximately 150 million registered Duolingo users, worldwide.

Duolingo originally made money by using its language students to crowdsource radpid translations of documents for paying organizations, such as news agencies and corporations. Customers would provide documents needing translation, which would be broken up and presented to Duolingo users as language exercises, with other users checking their work by selecting the “correct” translations.

The Duolingo mobile app was the first educational app to earn Apple's iPhone App of the Year award.