NEW YORK - In mid-December, Apple named Duolingo - a piece of language-learning software - its 2013 iPhone app of the year. Since then, I swear every native English speaker of my acquaintance has ...

Learning a new language is one of the most common bucket list tasks for people around the world, and with a multitude of freely available language apps, it should be easy, right? But how effective are ...

Busuu is one of the most popular language-learning apps. It supports 12 languages, including German. Some of the features include the usual array of grammar and vocabulary lessons along with offline ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- So far, my favorite sentence in Dutch is “Ik fiets vaak:” I bike often. I’m also a big fan of “heel veel,” which means very much. I learned both from Duolingo, the addictive ...

In June, I’m excited to visit Germany, Austria, and Switzerland for the first time as a chaperone for my daughter’s class trip. This trip has been in the making for nearly two years, and to get ready, ...

With 25 million monthly active users, Duolingo has become an immensely popular language-learning app, for good reason. It offers free instruction in 31 tongues, and it’s genuinely fun, with whimsical ...