Duolingo
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
8warn against
Nov 8, 2025first mention
Sep 3, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I got actual visible measurable results.”
“I use Duo Lingo as a guided learning path.”
Caveats and dissent
“The issue is Duolingo is rubbish”
“Yes, definitely happened to me.”
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“it doesn't actually work for learning. Duolingo sells feel-good vibes of being productive with your doomscrolling time.”
“Animations and loaders with tools like Duolingo”
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Data: duolingo.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 13
“I got actual visible measurable results.”
“The issue is Duolingo is rubbish”
“Yes, definitely happened to me.”
“it doesn't actually work for learning. Duolingo sells feel-good vibes of being productive with your doomscrolling time.”
“it maps perfectly to my learning style and keeps it fresher than flashcards or Duolingo”
“Animations and loaders with tools like Duolingo”
“be much more useful than 100 hours of Duolingo”
“I strongly dislike duolingo - it's gamification kept me pre-occupied for a while without noticing that I wasn't making any progress learning the language.”
“I am looking at DuoLingo that thing has crazy dark patterns”
“I use Duo Lingo as a guided learning path.”
“Duolingo is great for exposure to new sentences, but it's oriented around "lessons" and SRS is an afterthought.”
“The app is a far cry from what it used to be.”
“Duolingo is really just a low-effort mobile game as the popular argument goes.”