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Duolingo
Language practice through short exercises with words, sentences, listening and speaking.
Duolingo’s main product serves a broad audience rather than children specifically. A child who already reads comfortably can work through a chosen course in short sessions. Course content and exercise types differ by language. Practicing a greeting together or spotting a word in a book are ways to carry the language off the screen.
- Ages
- Confident readers with adult guidance
- Works on
- Web browser; App
- Topics
- Reading, Languages
- Languages
- Multilingual
- Listed
- 2026-10-11
What kids do
- Complete a language lesson
- Listen for familiar words
- Build short sentences
- Practice a greeting together
Who it suits
It isn’t built around a child age range. Confident readers with a grown-up involved are the likelier fit, and preschoolers probably not.
Notes for parents
Duolingo ABC is a separate early-reading product with its own listing.
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- Hooked on Phonics Learning: Guided reading activities come with an ebook library meant to go alongside the lessons.
- Teach Monster: Reading for Fun: Recipes, signs and instructions are the reading material in a village adventure where helping characters earns books for a monster’s shelf.
- Vooks: Animated storybooks with narration, where each word is highlighted as it is read aloud.
- Endless Reader: Animated words are built letter by letter, dropped into short sentence puzzles and then acted out in a little scene.