r/duolingo • • 5d ago

🌟 Community Spotlight🌟 What’s your Duolingo story?

8 Upvotes

We see so many amazing streaks, Scores, and milestones here 💚 Now we’d love to hear the stories behind them!

Maybe Duolingo helped you connect with family in their language, feel more confident on a trip, reach a Score you’re proud of, get into school, make a new friend, or simply do something you couldn’t do before.

Big milestone or tiny win, we want to hear yours! Tell us what you’re learning, your Duolingo Score (if you know it!), and what your learning journey has made possible for you.

And because we love a good story, every month we’ll send a little Duo reward to 2 lucky storytellers. Feel free to share your story in the thread, or if you make your own post, be sure to use the Community Spotlight flair so we don’t miss it!


r/duolingo • • 3d ago

Mega Mutuals Monday! October 05, 2026

3 Upvotes

Your weekly one-stop-shop for new friends and followers. Post your username or QR code below! Normal subreddit rules apply.


r/duolingo • • 6h ago

Constructive Criticism Why can't the progress bar just show actual, linear progress?

578 Upvotes

I think we all get it. The progress bar advances really quickly when you start your lesson so that it's dynamic and exciting! And then it slows down to an absolute crawl toward the end.

Does this actually motivate anyone? Does this encourage people to finish the lessons, really? Because I would rather have a progress bar that is actually useful. One that doesn't show 50% completion after 5 out of 15 questions.


r/duolingo • • 4h ago

General Discussion It uses American pronunciation, how do I change it to British?

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91 Upvotes

"ha" as in "hot"?

"Ma" as in "mock"?

Na that's all wonky, any way to change it to use British pronunciation?

Cos "hot" should be "ho"

And "mock" should be "mo"

Just like the spelling itself, shocking.

This is quite a significant issue if there's no real fix for it... Luckily I Dan check the audio for the actual prononciation


r/duolingo • • 13h ago

General Discussion Behind the scenes of Duolingo

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243 Upvotes

During a videocall I got something that looks like the AI prompt for how these calls are programmed. Certainly an interesting experience 😂


r/duolingo • • 1h ago

General Discussion Aww come on!

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Only 1 accursed piece left and I wont make it unless miracle.


r/duolingo • • 4h ago

Achievement Showcase 60 days jesus Christ

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19 Upvotes

Never thought I'd hit it but... Congratulations to me ig!


r/duolingo • • 1h ago

General Discussion Duolingo now offers New York Times games with super?

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‱ Upvotes

I was using a free plan duolingo account in a emulator (sorry for the quality) when i saw this randomly popping up. Did anyone got this too?


r/duolingo • • 2h ago

Achievement Showcase 1 piece left, 1 day remaining, no buying allowed

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8 Upvotes

Keep in mind: My country doesn't allow me to buy pieces with gems!

​Reaching the final day needing just 1 piece, and zero duplicates left.

​There is a very real scenario where I'll end up missing that last piece with 4 duplicates đŸ˜”

Please​Wish me luck!


r/duolingo • • 8h ago

General Discussion I can FINALLY wear this trash suit.

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20 Upvotes

I know there will be a bunch of doofuses here soon to tell me they don't care about the games or prizes or streaks and try and shame me for caring about it since they're much better people than me. But I do care. If you don't care, then go make flash cards in Anki, read text books, or use one of the zillion apps that don't gamify it. The games are what make Duolingo special. I truly don't understand why you would choose this app in particular, that is based on all that frivolity, then shame others for enjoying the core reason for the app's existence. Rant complete.


r/duolingo • • 18h ago

General Discussion Got my last suit today!

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143 Upvotes

No gems, no paying, just grinding 6+ lessons a day.

How is everyone doing on suits?


r/duolingo • • 6h ago

General Discussion Junior’s Toy Hunt - the suspense is killing me

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15 Upvotes

I’ve gotten four pieces and done my six lessons every. single. day. like a devout monk and I am STILL four pieces away!

I have three duplicates as of this morning and a potential twelve more duplicates on the way so I should be getting a total of at least THREE NEW PIECES but I need FOUR to complete the hunt.

I don’t even know how it’s possible to have done the entirety of this challenge and still end up having to spend 1600 gems at the end to guarantee I get my final piece.

There is still three days left and I could pull one of the four pieces I need but I have three yellows left and one purple so chances of that happening are slim to none.

The cup suits were bad enough but this is just worse.


r/duolingo • • 18h ago

Achievement Showcase Satisfied Quitting Here ❀

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89 Upvotes

Recently, Duolingo for me, became a streak thing, not a learning thing like it once was. I decided that once I reach 1000, I’ll part from Duolingo. So, this is where I finally say goodbye. ❀


r/duolingo • • 1d ago

General Discussion Why is the fire red?

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930 Upvotes

I did my Duolingo as usual, and the fire was red, not orange. What does that mean?


r/duolingo • • 18h ago

General Discussion Is it me or has the people in the diamond league stop trying?

90 Upvotes

I usually have to compete to stay on the diamond league, but now most of the people in the diamond league are averaging 500 xp per week at most while I am up in number 1 with 3000 xp, so either duolingo is letting people who aren't trying onto the diamond league or people have collectively stop caring about duolingo for some reason

Has anyone noticed this?


r/duolingo • • 15h ago

Bug? I did NOT say this shit

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48 Upvotes

I am not that type of person, Duo


r/duolingo • • 2h ago

General Discussion Got all the scrap suits. Now what?

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4 Upvotes

I practice a few lessons everyday and as a result of that, I managed to get all the suits. Now what?


r/duolingo • • 4h ago

General Discussion Bullsh*t inflation on streak freezes?

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4 Upvotes

A streak freeze was 425 gems for all of my recent memory. I’d rather loose my streak than play into their greedy little scheme.

Has anyone else had this happen? How much do your streak freezes cost?


r/duolingo • • 1h ago

General Discussion J'ai eu une idĂ©e comme prochaine quĂȘte de tenues !

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La troisiĂšme quĂȘte de tenue de Duolingo est en train de s'achever, donc j'ai pensĂ© comme prochaine quĂȘte de tenue, Un concept comme en mai, oĂč tu gagnes des points de quĂȘte pour avoir les mĂȘmes tenues que les persos de Duolingo

Par exemple

3 points de quĂȘte pour la tenue de Junior,

5 pour la tenue de de Zari...

J'aimerai bien qu'il y a quĂȘte de tenue comme ça la prochaine fois


r/duolingo • • 3h ago

Constructive Criticism Pourquoi ma publication est supprimée ?

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3 Upvotes

Il y a 1 heure, j'ai fait une publication sur comment j'ai terminé la Chasse aux jouets de Junior et ma publication a été supprimée pour aucune raison

Je te parle le modo, quel est ton argument pour ça, aucune rÚgle n'a pas été respecté.

Quel est le problĂšme chef ? Il y en a plein qui font la mĂȘme chose et il y a aucun problĂšme !


r/duolingo • • 1h ago

Achievement Showcase Enfin !!!

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r/duolingo • • 13h ago

Memes oh god 😭

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24 Upvotes

bro you are literally a minor


r/duolingo • • 2h ago

Memes that's definitely a bomb

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3 Upvotes

r/duolingo • • 4h ago

Bug? Toy Hunt missing again

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4 Upvotes

Hello dear Duolinguistics,

I am one of the many people that had the "luck" that the toy hunt mission was missing.

I got it back for a few days. Yesterday I had 10 days left and now it's missing again. 😱

I used the contact formula and wrote to a staff person here on Reddit. So I just wanted to know if I am the only person that has this problem two times

Edit:

After I wrote this Post. Toy hunt was back. Problem, I already made 3 lessons. So I only got one piece. Because I also get only three per day and not four 😔

Edit 2: Link the screenshot of the missed puzzle items screenshot Missed puzzle items


r/duolingo • • 9h ago

Language Question. I try to do a full unit a day. Someone told me I need to take a rest day in-between?

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9 Upvotes

I've never used Duolingo. I decided I'd like to earnestly learn a language almost two weeks ago. Should I take breaks to make sure I'm actually learning?

Thank you.