30+ Ultimate Duolingo Tips That Will Make You A Pro

Duolingo is a platform to learn a new language with the help of gaming-based learning. All you have to take up the course and follow the lessons in it. When you will be using Duolingo, you will get to see a lot of different exercises and activities that will help you to make your language journey engaging. However, when you are using Duolingo, it is very important that you must know ways to get maximum from Duolingo. Thus to help you in your Duolingo journey, we have mentioned Duolingo tips that will make you a pro in the targeted language.

Quick Takeaways

Following are the Duolingo tips that will make you a pro in your chosen language-

1. Think about the crowns more
2. Do not stress about the league
3. Study a little each day
4. Maintain your streak score
5. Do not use streak freeze
6. Use practice for unlocking more hearts
7. Make manageable goals
8. Use Duome
9. Try to reverse the language learning progress
10. Super Duolingo
11. Take maximum advantage of the Tips section
12. Desktop version
13. Podcasts
14. Use stories
15. Use Duolingo offline
16. Using the forums
17. Reporting the wrong question
18. Take the speaking exercises seriously
19. Attending the Duolingo event
20. Always move forwards
21. XP Ramp-Up Challenge
22. Using more writing exercises
23. Get familiar with your settings
24. Take the owl seriously
25. Check for capital letters
26. XP boosts
27. Happy Hour
28. Vocabulary
29. Adding vocabulary to Flashcards  
30. Using the tap the pair exercise
31. Using translators
32. Combo bonuses
33. Skip levels
34. Tap flags
35. Look for incubator
36. Taping on the friend Profile

However, we recommend you read till the end so that you do not miss any important facts related to the Duolingo tips that will make you a pro in the targeted language.

What are some Duolingo tips that will make you a pro in your chosen language?

When you are learning a new language, it is very important to stay motivated for the language-learning journey. Further, we have discussed Duolingo tips that will make you a pro while using Duolingo-

1. Think about the crowns more

When you go through the Duolingo tree which is currently updated to the new learning path, you get to unlock new crowns. It means that you will not need to have XP or gems to unlock new crowns. 

• When you earn more XP it helps you in leagues but not in crowns. Thus you will have to complete the lessons to unlock a new crown. 
• In short, we can say that when you have more crowns, it means that you have a lot more knowledge of your target language.

2. Do not stress about the league

One of the biggest mistakes that most people do is that they take leagues very seriously and make aim to get to the top of the league. You must not do it as it will diverge you from your main aim of learning the language. 

• You will focus less on your target language and will focus more on competing in the league.
• Although leagues help you to get committed towards Duolingo, it also becomes one of the reasons why you get diverted from learning the languages. 
• When you are taking leagues, you have to maintain your position by collecting the XP. Due to it, you may be repeating the easy exercises again and again. Thus you must not make it your primary concern. 
• Always remember leagues are just for fun and do not give much when it comes to learning the target language.

3. Study a little each day

The lessons on Duolingo are too short and thus you must avoid giving much time on Duolingo. According to the official statement given by Duolingo, giving 20-30 minutes each day is enough to complete the whole course. 

• With the help of it, you will study on a proper schedule. When you will study each day, you will get more effective learning. 
• Further setting up little targets will also help you to focus on your targeted languages easily and it will become easy for you to understand the content in the language. 

4. Maintain your streak score

Your streak score represents the number of days you have used in Duolingo for completing the lessons. Now again you may take up the old lessons so that they can be finished easily. However, when you do it you make a habit of giving the commitment towards your language learning. 

• As you can take up old lessons to maintain your streak score, it means that you are not necessarily doing well in the league. 
• Thus we can say that maintaining the streak score means that you are committed towards long time learning. However, if you really want to learn your target language, make sure that you are not repeating the old lessons.

5. Do not use streak freeze

As you go through your course you will start increasing your streak score. To save you from losing your streak Duolingo provides you with the option of streak freeze or streak repairs. With the help of them, you can save your streaks from breaking. 

• However, if you really want to learn your targeted language you must never use them. The biggest reason for it is when you will start using the to maintain your streak you will be lesson concerned about going on Duolingo every day. 
• When you will maintain 365 days streak on the platform, you will be getting a VIP streak score and unlocking the streak society.
• It will result in getting the bad habit of using streak freeze and not actually getting active on it. As your streak score will only help you in developing the habit, let it break if you were not able to get active on the platform. 

6. Use practice for unlocking more hearts

Duolingo is a platform which uses the heart system to go through the course. You will have to get hearts which are the lives to participate in the lessons. When you make a mistake you will lose one heart. When you want to regain your heart, you will find a lot of different ways for getting them back like using gems or watching ads. 

• However one of the best ways is to do a lot of practice for the previous sessions. This will not only help you to refill more life but will also help you to practice your earlier mistakes. 
• You can take as many practice sessions as you want to and you do not need to worry about the hearts on the platform. 
• When you complete your practice session you will regain your life with which you can again complete the lesson from where you lost the life. Thus it is one of the best features if you are really looking to excel in your targeted language. 

7. Make manageable goals

When you are on your language learning journey, you need to make small goals that you can achieve each day. Now suppose if you make goals which require much more time than you can give, it will make no sense of doing them. Thus make sure that you are only making the goals that are practically possible. 

• Although many believe that setting up a goal to get a high XP is a great goal. 
• It may be a good as well as a bad goal to set. This is because if you are really getting more XP by completing the new lessons it will help you in gaining knowledge of your targeted language. 
• Further, on the other hand, again you will start taking up the old lessons to complete your goal which again will not help you to learn the higher-level lessons. Thus try to keep the goals which are realistic and will help you in gaining more knowledge. 
• It means that it is better to get 15XP each day than getting high XP one day and not getting back for 2-3 days.

8. Use Duome

Duome is a website on which you can track all your progress. Although it is an unofficial website, there are a lot of people who use it. 

• If you are really serious about using Duolingo, this website will help you to know about your progress. You can check your XP score, streak score, etc. 
• To use this website you may need to have a minimum number of XP. As the website is unofficial, there is no confirmation about the number of XP you need to have. 
• To check your progress all you have to do is to search the website on the chrome and have to add your user name after it. When it will be open, you will see the screen with all the languages that you have. 
• Now to check at which level you are and how much more XP is needed to unlock the next lesson you have to tap on the language of which you are looking for. 

9. Try to reverse the language learning progress

Now suppose you are a native English speaker and are looking for learning the French language, you can think of reversing the new language. It means that you can reverse the language learning tree, i.e. taking up the English language from the French language.

• Also when you are done with the course and have achieved a higher level, you must also try to learn the new language by taking the French course as a base course. 
• For it, all you have to do is to add the course by clicking on the add course button. Now you have to scroll down to look for the course which is not your native language. 
• As there are a lot of different languages and many languages are not available, you must check for them before.

10. Super Duolingo

Super Duolingo or Duolingo Plus is the subscription plan that you have for Duolingo. You will be getting more features with Super Duolingo like unlimited health or zero ads. However, if you are looking to practice more on Duolingo, super Duolingo will provide many practice sessions like mastery quizzes, pronunciation reviews, etc. 

• Although it offers a lot of different features, like unlimited health which helps you to practice without taking the tension of losing the heart. 
• However, when you are taking it, you will generally find two subscription plans which are Individual and family plans . 
• The cost of the plan will depend on the type of the plan you are taking up along with the duration of it and the area of living. 
• Although you can do a lot of practice without the fear of losing your heart in the practice session, it reduces the need of taking the Super Duolingo. 
• So if you are a beginner who is bounded with the budget you must avoid buying the subscription plan. Further, you can also try to use this money on other sources of language learning like buying books for practice.

11. Take maximum advantage of the Tips section

When you are taking up the lesson plan, you will find the tips section on the platform. Do not forget to use the tips section which will help you to find the meanings of the words in the lessons. It will not only help you to learn new words but will also help you to grow your language knowledge. 

• Obviously, when you are just starting up with the language, you will find a lot of words that you are not aware of. Taking help from the tips section will make it easier for you to understand.
• Further, it will gain you more knowledge which you will be using in further lessons. 
• However, you must always remember that not all the courses have a tip section.

12. Desktop version

One of the biggest obstacles in your language learning journey with Duolingo is the heart system. If you are using the mobile app, you must be well aware of it. When you make a mistake you will end up losing your health and will not be able to practice in the next lesson. To help you get to save from it, you must switch to the Desktop version.

• In the desktop version, there is no heart system and thus you can easily complete your lessons without having the tension of losing your life.
• Also according to Duolingo, they have no reason for bringing the heart system to the desktop version. 
• Thus if you are not able to go to the next lesson, due to the hearts you must be able to get the desktop version. You can also look for the desktop version on the mobile itself.

13. Podcasts

Podcasts and audio lessons are the best way of increasing your communication skills. In podcasts, you will hear two native speakers of your targeted language which will help you to boost your listening skills as well. 

• However, if you are taking Russian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, or any other languages (except for Spanish and French), you will not get the podcasts for them. 
• It is because currently Duolingo only has podcasts for French and Spanish and may add more and more for other languages as well. 
• So if you are taking Spanish or French, make sure to hear them. These podcasts are currently available on Spotify or Apple podcast app.

14. Use stories

Stories are again a feature that you will be getting for some specific courses. These stories are created to develop your reading and listening skills. 

• They are short stories that are usually for the duration of 5-10m minutes. With the help of these stories, you will be able to test what you have learned so far. 
• Thus when you are using the stories, you will be getting a lot of hilarious sentences that will keep you entertained. 
• However, you will get them directly in the course itself rather than getting them in their own tab(according to the old Duolingo tree).

15. Use Duolingo offline

With the latest update of Duolingo, you can download the new lessons and can take them offline when you are not able to use them on the internet. 

• Although this feature was only available for Duolingo Plus members earlier. 
• Further, you must take advantage of this feature when you are travelling somewhere. It is because when you are travelling to a new place, your internet may not be working at all. 

• However, you must also remember that you must be able to get active on Duolingo before using it offline. 
• Your lessons are updated by themself and you do not need to download them separately. Thus you must try to get active on Duolingo whenever you can so that your lessons are updated by themselves. 

16. Using the forums

There are a lot of forums that you can use along with the Duolingo studies to help you with your language learning journey. At these forums, you can discuss different things about the Duolingo. 

• When you will be using forums, you will find a lot of conversation between a lot of different users about Duolingo. 
• You can also post queries over here and get answers from the other users. 
• So if you are stuck on a question, you can take help from such forums. 
• Further, you may also find a person who is learning the same language with whom you will be practising your communication skills.

17. Reporting the wrong question

The course created on Duolingo are made by real people (which was earlier created on the Duolingo incubator). Now as the courses are created by the real people there is no doubt that you can find some of the wrong questions on the platform.

Thus it is important that you must report them so that they can correct them. Further another issue that you may be facing is your answers are correct but they are marking them wrong. You can gain make a complaint about it by tapping on the flag icon.

18. Take the speaking exercises seriously

Many people believe that the speaking exercises on Duolingo are frustrating. It is because the AI in Duolingo is very strict with some of the world’s pronunciations. Thus when you do a wrong pronunciation, you will lose your heart as well. 

• However, there may be chances that you did the right pronunciation but marked it as the wrong answer. In such a situation you can tap on can’t speak now to avoid the speaking exercises. 
• Further, we will recommend you to not go for can’t speak exercises much. Though it may be frustrating when you lose a life because of the wrong pronunciation, it will help you to develop your speaking and communication skills. 

19. Attending the Duolingo event

Duolingo events are video calls on Skype in which users from various countries of a particular language come together and communicate in their targeted language. These events are the best way for increasing your communication skills.

Further, they also help you to get 250 XP. It also means that you will not need to get XP ramp-up challenges to earn more XP. Thus Duolingo event helps you to boost your communication skills.

20. Always move forwards

As we have discussed before, you must not repeat the earlier lessons again. It is because they will give you extra XP but not help you to get a higher level of language learning. This means that you must take new lessons as it will help you to understand the language more easily. Further, when you will be going for hard lessons the number of XP that you can earn will also increase.

Taking up hard lessons will also help you to boost your confidence level in the targeted language. Moving forward in the course also help you to learn new skills in the course which help you to make your communication skills more strong.

21. XP Ramp-Up Challenge

XP ramp-up challenges are the timed challenges that you usually take during weekends. These challenges are the ones in which you can practice a lot of the questions based on what you have learned so far. 

• Further, it also helps you to gain more XP. In this challenge, you will have to answer all the questions before the time ends. 
• Further to find this challenge you will have to go to the league tab and look for the Ramp Up challenge. You will also see a lot of different challenges that are going on in Duolingo and you can take part in them.

22. Using more writing exercises

If you are using the XP ramp-up challenge or any other timed challenge, you must try to turn off the speaking and listening exercises and focus on the writing exercises. When you will focus on the writing exercises it will take you less time than hearing the speaker which will help you in the timed challenges.

Although if the questions are small it will barely give you any advantage. However, if the question is large there will be a huge difference. With the help of this technique, you will be able to save 3-4 seconds, which can make a large difference.

23. Get familiar with your settings

Duolingo is a platform that has a lot of cool setting options on the platform. You can revise your daily goals, manage your courses or connect with the help centre. You can also set the time when should the owl send you the notifications. It means that you can change your settings about how much duration Duo should remind you about Doing practice.

When you are changing your settings you must remember that you are keeping the reminder timing according to the time that suits you. It will help you to make a daily routine of using Duolingo and connect g your lessons. However, make sure to keep the time at which you are free mostly. 

24. Take the owl seriously

If you really want to excel on Duolingo it is important that you are using Duolingo and completing the lesson each day. Thus when you will be setting up the reminders for your daily practice on Duolingo, make sure that you are taking all the reminders too seriously.

• Whenever you see the reminder from the owl, and other characters you must try to go on Duolingo and complete the lessons. 
• It will not only help you to complete the lesson but will also help you to maintain the streak score on the platform. 
• Therefore always take the notifications from the owl (app icon) seriously. If you are not able to go to Duolingo at that time, make sure to open up after the work you are doing. 

25. Check for capital letters

When you are doing translations, this is one of the best ways to help yourself with it. You will be having a lot of words when you are choosing the translation. In such a case you must look at the words which start with the capital letter. It is because words with the capital letter will be the first word that will come at the start of the sentence. 

• However, always remember that there are fewer chances of getting such words in the option. But whenever you are in such exercises, then always try to first look for the words starting with the capital letters. 
• Further, you must also remember that you may find capital words in the translating language and not in your current language or vice versa. So suppose if you are translating English into French you may see capital words in French and not in English or vice versa.

26. XP boosts

If you are a person who is in the league and is really interested in gaining more XP then XP boosts are the best way of earning more XP. They are the boosters that help you to double your XP. 

• However, you must also remember that you will only have it for 15 minutes. So if you are using it make sure to complete your lessons within that time. 
• Earlier there was a similar Boost known as the Perfect lesson boost that help you to get some XP when you complete the lessons without making any mistakes.
• However, if you are really interested in learning the language, you may not find it worthwhile. It is because your XP is required to stay at the top of the league and help you earn more gems.  
• Thus XP booster will not give you much in your language learning journey. So we can conclude that if you are looking for earning more and more XP, then it is one of the best ways. However, if you really want to learn the language it will not help you much.

27. Happy Hour

Again if you are looking for earning more XP, then you must know about Duolingo Happy Hour. Duolingo happy hour is the hour that gives you 5 extra XP when you complete the lesson in this hour. 

• As it is only active for 60 minutes you must try to complete all the small lessons in it. Further, if you are completing the lesson without making an error you will be gaining 5 more XP. 

• Suppose you have taken the Russian language, and have completed a lesson along with all the lessons without making any errors you will get 15 XP for it. And if you have completed it in the time of Happy Hour you will be getting 20 for it. 
• Usually, it is available in the time of evening between 7-8 pm.

28. Vocabulary

Duolingo is an ed-tech platform that helps to keep track of the words you have learned so far. They check which words have come in contact with you and the words that you are familiar with. Although you must remember that this feature is only available for users who are using Duolingo on the Desktop version.

When you are at the Desktop version you will be able to get the list of the words on it. It will also tell you about when you last practised these words.

29. Adding vocabulary to Flashcards  

As you now know that you can actually see the words that you have learned so far, you must also know that you can add them to your flashcards. So if you are a person who keeps on forgetting the words which you have come in contact with, you can always download the words and add them to your flashcards. You even do not have to write these words by yourself.

30. Using the tap the pair exercise

In this exercise, you have to match the meaning of the words. On one side you will see the words in your targeted language and on the other side you will see the words in your native language. You will have to match the pair of the words and their meanings. If you are also weak in the vocabulary this is one of the best exercises to help you with the vocabulary part. Further, you will also be able to learn a lot of new words from it. 

31. Using translators

Although it is not the right option to do but using translators sometimes is very helpful. It is especially in the case when you are in your timed challenges or have only one life. Translators will not always help you but when you are only having one life you must try using it as it will stop you from making more mistakes. However, you must make sure that you are not making it a habit of using a translator regularly. You may also take help from other alternatives for Duolingo.

32. Combo bonuses

Again if you are looking for leveling up your XP score you must also try to focus on getting the combo bonuses. They are the bonuses that you get based on the number of correct answers you get in a row. The maximum XP that you get for the right answers in a row is about five. So if you are able to complete the exercise without any mistake you will get 15 XP instead of 10 for a single lesson.

33. Skip levels

On Duolingo, you will be getting different levels when you are studying a course. There are both easy and hard levels that you can take up. When you find the levels that are too easy then you can also skip them and go on to the next levels. 

• To do so, you can either take up the placement level to get on the higher level or take a test for the level you want to skip. 
• If you pass the test you will be able to skip that level. However, you must remember as you are going for skipping the levels you will find the tests harder than the normal lessons. 
• But they will help you to get on a level higher than you are on at the current level. So if you are at a level that is easy for you then you can skip the level. 

34. Tap flags

If you are having a lot of languages then you must tap on the flags to know your language break out. It will help you to know how many lessons are left for each of the languages taken. Further, it will also help you to know how many crowns are left to complete the course. To look for these flags, all you need to do is to go on your profile. Now you will see a lot of different flags, and you can tap on the flag you want to check for. 

35. Look for an incubator

Earlier Duolingo incubator was a voluntary program which the users take to develop the courses on a voluntary basis. However, with time this program was shut down and currently incubator is used to know about all the current or upcoming courses that will help you to stay updated.

There are three sections of the courses on the platform – the upcoming courses, courses in beta level, and courses that have passed the beta level and are ready to take up. However, currently, you can still contribute to making the upcoming courses which will help Duolingo in developing the course. 

36. Taping on the friend Profile

If you are a person who loves to compete with others, then this is what you should do. You will need to go to your profile page and tap on the friend list. When you will see the friends on your profile (that help you in friends quests), you will have to tap on the profile of the person you want to check the stat of.

Once you do it, you will see the graph which will help you to track your friend’s streak score and XP as well. With the help of this graph, you will be able to compare your stats with the other friend and will help to know where are you in Duolingo.

Conclusion

Duolingo is a platform that helps you in learning a new language with some engaging games on it. As you go through Duolingo you will find a lot of different exercises for which you must know the ways for getting the best out of Duolingo. There are several Duolingo tips that will make you a pro in your targeted language like taking up XP Ramp challenges, XP boosts, attending Duolingo events, etc.

However, when you are on Duolingo you must try to set up small and manageable goals that you can easily achieve. Slowly set up the goals higher than the earlier goals. Also if you are finding the levels too easy then you can skip those levels and go on the higher level.

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