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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
An informal way of creating software by describing the desired result to an AI and relying heavily on the code it produces.
Read moreTo make someone unable to understand something, or to make the thing itself seem obscure.
Read moreSomething left behind or felt after water, drinking, or an event has had its effect.
Read moreA feminine personal name associated with air, light, and a distinctive presence.
Read moreAn intangible presence or signal felt around a person, thing, or body.
Read moreBuilt on a source, principle, or place that gives something its starting point.
Read moreA romantic connection whose status, commitment, or future has not been clearly agreed.
Read moreExpresses the idea “privately between two people” in everyday German.
Read moreExpresses the idea “from now on” in everyday German.
Read moreExpresses the idea “that is beyond question” in everyday German.
Read moreExpresses the idea “know how to appreciate” in everyday German.
Read moreExpresses the idea “ultimately or in the end” in everyday German.
Read moreExpresses the idea “draw conclusions” in everyday German.
Read moreExpresses the idea “over the course of time” in everyday German.
Read moreExpresses the idea “not in the slightest” in everyday German.
Read moreExpresses the idea “primarily or chiefly” in everyday German.
Read moreExpresses the idea “state one's position” in everyday German.
Read moreExpresses the idea “in the foreseeable future” in everyday German.
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