Duolingo, an interactive language learning platform |
Duolingo is a website designed to help a learn a foreign language and I believe it's brilliant at it.
The experience is similar to a game including a friendly and nice-looking UI, rewards/coins received after completing exercises and a roadmap displaying your overall progress.
The Basics 1 Lessons |
The Roadmap and other status information |
The learning is very simple and interactive. It gradually introduces new words and grammar concepts and also requires you to translate phrases, listen to and write sentences and even translate articles from the web. It also keeps learning statistics and allows you to work on your weak spots.
A simple translation exercise |
Currently only a few languages are supported
- Spanish
- English
- French
- German
- Portuguese
- Italian
and as for the mobile platform, only iOS is blessed with an app, but an Android promise exists towards the end of 2013.
Enjoy