I’ll also tell you about the time when foreign language teachers were imprisoned in America for four years, simply because they were language teachers. If you don’t believe me, read the footnotes. But every claim has been carefully proven from highly credible sources. In the review below, you will read some things that seem unbelievable at first. The Most Carefully Researched Duolingo Review I’ll speculate on who is really paying for Duolingo if you aren’t. I will cover alternatives that will be better for some language learners. I will explain why you might not want to learn Spanish with a program that thinks you should study phrases like, “I am a duck who speaks English.” That’s my favorite funny phrase from the Duolingo Spanish program, but funny is not the same as useful. Why? Because after about two weeks of studying for five minutes per day, the amount of your language that you learn every day will be the same as the amount that you forget every day, and you won’t be making any progress. In this review, I will show you why you will NOT learn a language in just five minutes a day with Duolingo. You probably are here because you want to know what other people think of Duolingo.Ĭan you really “learn a language for free in just five minutes a day” with Duolingo as they claim? Summary of This Review: This is the friendly Duo owl from Duolingo.