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
Sep 30, 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

47.6K reviews
Safiya Ahmed
September 20, 2024
I was so happy when i found this application that could help me with my french listening practice. It would have been a great application to learn languages, but the free version is very limited. You will need a premium account for almost every basic thing. You can't enjoy the things that they say you would be able to enjoy with a free account, because you have to pay for that too. Like saving words or checking the meaning of words. And the premium is quite pricy.
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Daniel Marcus
May 27, 2024
I used this app to learn Japanese. Subscribed to it because I liked it, initially. After half a year I realized that LingQ's approach to learning isn't for me. It relies too heavily on self-learning using online dictionaries and translators (jisho, Google Translate, DeepL, etc) and the auto-translation of imported videos (e.g., YouTube) are atrocious. Even some of the audios from LingQ's official podcast hosted by Steve Kauffman himself didn't sync with the translation. Nice app, poor content.
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LingQ Languages Ltd.
June 3, 2024
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us! We're constantly working to improve our platform and enhance the learning experience for our users, so your comments are invaluable in helping us identify areas for improvement.
Joshua
February 23, 2025
Cool idea, but unusable on free tier. Once you hit 20 words, even if you delete them from your list, you cannot add more ever again without paying. Not sure if this is a bug or intentional but either way I could not use the app long enough for free to properly judge if it's worthy of paying for.
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LingQ Languages Ltd.
March 9, 2025
As a free user, you have unlimited access to all our content in all languages. It would just be a bit more manual to look up words that you don't know once you hit the 20 LingQs creation limit. Need more LingQs or a Premium trial period? Email me at tiagor@lingq.com.

What’s new

What's new:
• Archive lessons, courses, and playlists — restore them any time
• Lynx AI chat: redesigned start page with suggestions, and its own font settings
• Reader: more reliable contextual meanings, clearer phrases, smoother text rendering
• Audio and video: playback speed and mode switching fixed
• Library: faster course opening
• Video imports and tag search fixed
• Book Challenges support multiple books
• Other bug fixes and stability improvements
Content rating
Rated for 3+
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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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