Duolingo

An amazing tool for learning languages

Comments: It is a great tool for beginners, the notifications help the user stay motivated and compromised. It is very easy to use and the ux is great.

Pros:

I love how easy and intuitive it is, it's fun to practice and it keeps me motivated.

Cons:

It can feel a little boring after some time because the exercises are the same.

Great App for Easy Learning

Comments: I used Duolingo to help converse with my Portuguese in-laws and also our trip to Portugal. I practiced for about two months prior to our trip with Duolingo. I felt reasonably comfortable reading menus and speaking Portuguese when needed on my trip.

Pros:

I liked that Duolingo used basics to build upon. I also liked the speaking portion of the review so that you know if you are pronouncing words properly.

Cons:

I only used the free application, and felt sometimes frustrated by the limitations of repeating an exercise I had difficulty passing.

I love Duolingo

Pros:

I love learning a language using Duolingo. Duolingo makes learning fun and incentivizes my progress.

Cons:

I’m not a big fan of the ads on the free version of Duolingo however, I understand why they are necessary for the free version.

Great App theoretically but poor company support for any problem

Comments: Would not recommend due to lack of company support

Pros:

easy to use. helps with vocabulary and some grammatical clues

Cons:

no company support. If you have a bug no one will help solve the problem. My click to speak exercise stopped working and company does not respond to help requests

Duolingo is for beginners and thats it.

Comments: In the beginning (with a paid membership) the lessons are helpful to start to build a single word understanding. The problem is with syntax and grammar, there is no explanation or way to get help when the app forces you to complete a lesson. It will just repeat over and over gain until you "copy" the answer but never helps you understand the problem. I am 253 consistent days in on a paid account for Duolingo to learn Italian and have hit a major brick wall for the past 60 days. At this point, the disjointed lessons have no bearing on life or real world conversations and offer no explanations to grammar or syntax. While I already knew some words and phrases, Duolingo's paid version has done nothing to get me from a basic understanding to an intermediate level. Making friends in the app is no help since you can not talk with them and the Lilly "AI" bot is highly limited. Duolingo has some nice things about it, but for the person who is looking to become fluent in a language, this is not the program. Unless you are speaking with a human or have exercise programs to help with common everyday situations, words and phrases, Duoling is just not that program. I gave this app great hope, but it has seriously let me down. There is no way to tailor your lessons or have it learn where you need help and because it forces you to give and answer you do not understand the question or phrase, there is no way to actually learn. On a scale from 1 to 10 I give Duolingo a 4 and lower if someone if looking to become fluent.

Pros:

The interface is easy to follow. Some features help to remember words and some simple things like Hello, How are you?, Excuse me or Please and Thank You.

Cons:

Lessons have no bearing on real world situations or conversational learning. Many of the lessons just spit out nonsense phrases with no ability to get a full translation and force a user to answer when they don't even understand the question.