DinolingoReviews of dinolingo.com

I’ve only experience DuoLingo less than a week but it looks like it is the same format throughout the experience (video, music, matching game, etc). I anticipate my 3.5 year old to get bored of this. She likes the matching game, but it would be nice to have more games. I think the selections before the matching game (right, wrong & choosing the right picture to voice) is too difficult to understand for her without my help of what is going on. It would be nice to have age levels of the games themselves, not just be given less choices for the younger kids. She wants to play games, not watch videos. That is why I give it a 3 star. I think I will use this for a few weeks and then she will be bored, unfortunately. The pronunciations are great though.

After trying many other Korean learning apps for our young child, so far this has been the best. Yet it still has a ways to go. New users are able to try the first few lessons in a browser but not on mobile app. You can't subscribe through the app store and must enter your credit card info just for the 7 day free trial. The app itself has cute introductory videos but they are way too long (my child even said so!). It would be better to introduce the new language in smaller chunks, like the exercises themselves do. Also, it throws in some complex grammar early on, expecting young kids to comprehend very long sentences in an unfamiliar language (spoiler: it doesn't work and creates unnecessary frustration). Finally, the practice problems are somewhat rote. For example, the child will practice "blue bird" repeatedly without ever seeing "blue fish". I suspect it is to cut down on the number of new pictures they have to create for the program. We'll continue the trial and see if things get better. If not, I will keep searching for a better app.

The videos and activities are great, but whenever my daughter spends more than about ten to fifteen minutes on the website it freezes and stops working completely.

My son says that the lessons are too childish. I wish there were different age-based curricula.

The videos freeze all the time on the telephone... this is quite frustrating. Other than that it looks OK even though I'm not a fan of the style.

I’m learning Portuguese on Duolingo but after several months in and a purchased 1 year subscription I am told that it isn’t in fact Portuguese from Portugal I’m learning but Brazilian Portuguese. No sign of European Portuguese available any time soon either. Duolingo is very effective though. It makes practice fun.

Would have liked to have tried it, but with kids learning multiple languages, I simply cannot afford to pay the subscription costs for each individual language (each language costing $15). There are many programs out there with one simple subscription amount and the ability to learn multiple languages or all available languages.

The program is immersive, but their choice of words doesn't seem to set one up for success when speaking outside of the program. For instance, Dinolingo has the child learn the word for bird, as equivalent to using the word birdie. While adults speak to children this way, it's not how education systems teach native speakers in their institutions. Being that this is an educational program I would have expected a more academic choice of words.