by Eliana Hernandez, Jinyi Lu, and Amanda Wang
Duolingo is a popular language learning app. Over 500 million people use it. What makes it awesome is that you can learn more than one language! You can learn languages like French, Chinese, Hawaiian, Japanese, Spanish, Ukrainian, Russian, Greek, Korean, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Zulu, and more! You can also practice your Math and Music skills (on iOS and android only).
In Duolingo, they make it fun by turning it into a game. However, when you do lessons and tests, you have hearts. You only have 5 hearts so try not to mess up too much, because every time you mess up, you lose a heart, and if you lose all of them, you can’t continue your lesson, and you can only get more hearts by waiting about five hours, or practicing for hearts. There are two features. Super Duolingo and Duolingo max. In Super Duolingo you have unlimited hearts plus, you can do speaking and listening exercises and get free entry to events. You can also add a family plan through Super Duolingo, which means that you can add your friends that have and that you have friended/followed plus your family (hence the name) with you on the super duolingo adventure. In Duolingo Max you have all the benefits of Super Duolingo but you can practice using video call or chat. Duolingo Max is also powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
One of the reasons people use other language apps instead of downloading Duolingo, is because they hear all the crazy things about Duolingo threatening you when you lose your streak, fail a question, etc. That is just misinformation. It’s not true. We are all Duolingo users, and we have lost our streaks multiple times, and those threats like “you missed your French lesson, you know what happens now” or “time to learn how to say ‘help me’ in Japanese” have never happened to us. Other students have also confirmed that this is false. If you want to learn a language, or even multiple ones, we highly recommend using Duolingo.