Learn to speak, read & understand any language with real content, not drills
About LingQ | Learn Languages
LingQ | Learn Languages is an education app developed by LingQ Languages Ltd..
Download Statistics
LingQ | Learn Languages has been downloaded 2.8 million times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 52 thousand times. It is ranked #8 in education.
User Ratings
LingQ | Learn Languages is rated 4.52 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 47 thousand ratings.
App Information
LingQ | Learn Languages is FREE to download. The last update was on August 3, 2025.
Technical Requirements
The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play October 2011.
Description
⭐ 4.7 stars from 45,000+ reviews. Trusted by language learners worldwide.
LingQ is the language learning method that gets you fluent — by reading and listening to real content you actually enjoy, not textbook drills or gamified exercises.
Learn Spanish, English, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, and 45+ more languages.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 THE LINGQ METHOD — WHY IT WORKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
LingQ is built on comprehensible input — the science-backed idea that we acquire language the same way we learned our first language: by understanding meaningful content at our level, not memorizing rules.
Instead of lessons and drills, you immerse yourself in real stories, podcasts, books, and videos. You encounter words in context, look them up instantly, and naturally absorb the language over time. This is language immersion that actually fits into your life.
LingQ was co-founded by Steve Kaufmann, a polyglot who has learned 20+ languages using this exact approach.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🆚 HOW LINGQ IS DIFFERENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Unlike Duolingo, Babbel, or Rosetta Stone, LingQ doesn't rely on gamification, repetitive drills, or synthetic sentences. Instead:
✅ You learn from REAL content — podcasts, books, YouTube, Netflix ✅ You choose topics you love — sports, history, comedy, true crime ✅ You build vocabulary from context — not flashcard lists ✅ You progress through immersion — not streaks or XP points
If you've plateaued with other language learning apps, LingQ is the next step.
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📚 Massive Content Library Thousands of lessons from podcasts, books, interviews, articles, and more — all with matching text for simultaneous reading and listening.
📥 Import Anything Turn Netflix shows, YouTube videos, podcasts, ebooks, and web articles into interactive lessons. Your interests become your curriculum.
🤖 AI Language Learning Tools • AI Audio Transcription: Turn podcasts and audiobooks into interactive lessons • AI-Simplified Lessons: Access harder content earlier in your journey • Lynx AI Chatbot: Real-time tutor with web search built in • AI Voices: Natural text-to-speech for immersive listening
📊 Vocabulary Builder & Progress Tracking Track every word you've read, heard, and learned. Watch your known word count grow.
🌍 Global Community • Writing exchange with native speaker corrections • Tutoring sessions tailored to your goals • Community challenges to build consistent habits
• Unlimited vocabulary lookup and SRS review • Full word tracking and progress stats • Unlimited content imports • AI features included (expanded with Premium Plus)
Download LingQ free and start learning from content you love today.
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I recommend it to everyone interested in learning a language. The only thing not present that I think would be useful is the ability to translate and prepare a lesson from any language into the target language if you need to learn specific words in the language you're learning for example a training video from work, but it's great with the ability to import lessons from YouTube you can fit language learning into whatever your interest at the time is.
★★★★★Rafael Fróz· Aug 7, 2026
LingQ is the most awesome app for language learning ever! The true exposition to any content the user likes to really enhances user's ability to get a hold onto anything. After meeting LingQ my language learning comprehension skyrocketed.
★★★★☆Marcela V· Jul 16, 2026
I love using LingQ to learn vocabulary in context, read more, and understand content in my target languages. One downside is that I cannot import video files (only videos hosted on YouTube, for example).
★★☆☆☆La Comtesse· May 4, 2026
Unimpressed. The free version with the 20 Lings when no instructions are provided for telling you that if you tap a word (even a simple word) that it is added to your list is poor. You should provide a training lesson to use the app, then reset the 20. At least I have Babel for life and the DuoLingo subscription can include up to 6 people, even if it's not ideal. This is overpriced for what it is. Paying to listen to Stromal and read the lyrics is silly. I can do that for free.
★★☆☆☆Edmond M· Apr 29, 2026
Even after deleting all lings I made in the hopes I can continue using the free tier, I'm still told that "Free accounts are limited to 20 Lings". Does that mean that after reaching the lingq limit, deleting them will not reset the limit? I really wanted to like this app, but I find the free tier to be too aggressively restrictive, which leaves me with no option but to look for alternatives. I'd be open to change my mind if I could have complete control of all 20 free lings as advertised.
★★☆☆☆Storz Bickel· Jun 23, 2026
It blows my mind how cool and also how terribly buggy and amateur the polish still is on this app even after all these years. It's gotten worse. Fumigant doesn't display over the kanji and mine randomly shows, Russian, Korean etc. over the kanji, madness. Highlighting sentences is still an ungodly unusable nightmare. In the listener if you click a word quick for definition you can't return to listener, have to go back to read and click listener then find your place again. List goes on...
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