Want to learn a new language for travel, school, career, friends or your brain health? Duolingo must be your first choice!
Duolingo is a language learning app that uses game-like methods to encourage users to keep coming back to learn every day. The app makes learning new languages fun with quick and bite-sized lessons. It offers over 100 total courses across 40 distinct languages, from Spanish, French, Italian to Navajo and Yiddish. With this app, you can build your vocabulary and grammar skills by practicing speaking, reading, listening and writing.
Latest Update: Duolingo’s Courses Are Effective
Peer-reviewed journal “Foreign Language Annals” published a Duolingo study, showing that completing five units in Duolingo’s Spanish and French courses is comparable to four university semesters for reading and listening skills. What’s more, Duolingo learners achieved four semesters of proficiency in reading and listening in less than half the time as their college counterparts.
Pros:
Visual revision reminders
Beautiful interface
Free and fun courses
Visual learning with images and visual prompts
Game-like lessons keeps users motivated and on track
Science-based teaching methodology
Be a part of language community
Cons:
No control over the vocabulary topics, the order they come in, and the ability to skip them
