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18 August 2026An app that speaks for you is not teaching you to speak. Linguin practice talks now take an optional task: use your saved words, find out a secret, or get to know the person in front of you.
Read articleThis question has a real answer, and it is not a secret. But "No. 1" hides the only part that matters: number one at what. Downloads, money, ratings, or actually learning.
Read article22 July 2026The question has a number in it, and the number is a trick. Easiest for whom, and easiest at what. Three honest answers, and the one that is actually true for you.
Read article21 July 2026People tell you to quit Duolingo for four different reasons, and they are not equally fair. What the app is good at, what the research really showed, and the part it was never built to do.
Read article20 July 2026DeepL and ChatGPT are built on different ideas of what translating is, so neither is simply better. Here is which one to reach for, and the question both of them leave you to answer alone.
Read articleLatest updates to the Linguin multilingual dictionary, language learning tools, and AI conversation features.
20 August 2026A new Speaking Practice task hands you a checklist about the character. Ask your way through it, then tell the whole thing back to them.
Read updateA new task in Speaking Practice turns a conversation into a small mystery. The person you talk to is keeping something back, and the only way to it is to keep them talking.
Read update18 August 2026Speaking Practice now takes an optional task. Put words on a list before you start, and the conversation steers you toward every one of them.
Read update3 August 2026Exercise definitions now use natural explanations instead of dictionary-style wording, making words easier to recognize and learn.
Read updateThe slang and new words people are looking up right now
A plausible new wording created when spoken or sung words are heard incorrectly.
Read moreAn informal word for affected wealth in Spain, a vulgar body term, or a large quantity in parts of Central America.
Read moreA troubling doubt about whether something is right or will turn out well.
Read moreWork of limited value because it is minor, badly done, or dishonest.
Read moreA fault or weakness that reduces quality or effectiveness.
Read moreTo overwhelm a place or the senses until normal movement, appetite, or enjoyment gives way.
Read moreA force of resistance, felt as unwillingness in a person or encountered by magnetic flux in a circuit.
Read moreA small place, venture, stream, or dish whose exact meaning depends strongly on region and context.
Read moreTo bring someone or something back to an earlier, rightful, or better state.
Read moreA casual response of doubt or indifference, and a judgment that something is mediocre.
Read moreA hollow-ended implement used to scoop, serve, shape, or lift something.
Read moreA brief loss of balance or smooth progress, sometimes leading to an unexpected discovery.
Read moreA familiar name for a family or workplace authority figure.
Read morePleasantly kind, elegant, or merciful, with older uses for royalty and surprise.
Read moreThe pedestrian edge of a street and the built line that borders it.
Read moreAn informal response that gives hesitant or unenthusiastic agreement.
Read moreTo reach a completed point through movement or a process.
Read moreTo take meaning from written words or symbols.
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