LingQ | Learn Languages

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About this app

⭐ 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.

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📖 THE LINGQ METHOD — WHY IT WORKS
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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.

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🆚 HOW LINGQ IS DIFFERENT
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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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✨ FEATURES
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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.

🔁 SRS Review & Karaoke Mode
Spaced repetition vocabulary review for long-term retention.

🌍 Global Community
• Writing exchange with native speaker corrections
• Tutoring sessions tailored to your goals
• Community challenges to build consistent habits

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🚀 LINGQ PREMIUM
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• 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.
Learn to speak, read & understand any language with real content, not drills
Updated on
Jun 26, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • No data shared with third parties
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  • This app may collect these data types
    Location, Personal info and 3 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

47.2K reviews
Romain Bédard-Roux
December 18, 2024
Very cool concept, but not super user friendly. Also, please allow me to filter the most common words I've created lingQs for among the lessons I've studied. If a yellow word apprears a lot in my lessons, that would be a good indicator that I should give it more attention, as opposed to those that are lesson specific that I could just ignore. I'm aware of the "sort by importance" feature in the vocab section, but for some reason, it doesn't seem to work for traditional Chinese. Can you help?
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B B
April 11, 2023
The French part is underwhelming. There aren't many graded readers. The translations for words are wrong, too numerous or in gibberish. The stories have broken words. As you look through courses, they fill your "continue studying " section so you're actual content gets buried. To import you need subscriptions to multiple other site, plus LingQ. Overall it's not very intuitive to use. It's like they tried to just cram everything in, every option, menu peppered all over.
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LingQ Languages Ltd.
April 26, 2023
Sorry to hear you are unsatisfied with the progress of the updates. I hope you can enjoy our app again in the future.
A Google user
September 12, 2019
My 3 star review is based entirely on the function of the app itself. Even though the app itself is far from perfect, as a powerful tool for learning languages this is a 5 star product all day, although it probably isn't right for every language learner. Fully expect to run into some strange glitches while using this app. Also, fully expect to experience great progress in your target language while using an input based approach with LingQ.
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LingQ Languages Ltd.
September 23, 2019
I'm glad you like the product overall. Please let us know specific frustrations with the app so we can try and address them.

What’s new

Cup of Languages: improvements to rankings, performance and tablet layout.
Transliteration for RTL languages.
Fix to flashcard audio issue.
Video mode vocabulary list fixes.
Fix to daily stats not refreshing when coming back to Library.
Bug fixes and stability improvements.
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App support

Phone number
+16049259544
About the developer
LingQ Languages Ltd.
support@lingq.com
2232 Marine Dr #200 West Vancouver, BC V7V 1K4 Canada
+1 604-925-9544

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