DuoLingo: Learn a language for free. Forever.

Duolingo is a free language-learning and crowdsourced text translation platform. The service is designed so that, as users progress through the lessons, they simultaneously help to translate websites and other documents.  They even offer Irish courses! And Duolingo won Best Education Startup at the 2014 Crunchies.

Duolingo offers extensive written lessons and dictation, but it features less speaking practice. It has a gamified skill tree that users can progress through and a vocabulary section where learned words can be practiced.

Here’s the interface for French …

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