When you’re learning a language, sometimes you want a quick break from your regular lessons. Or maybe you want to work on your pronunciation, or train your ear, or review mistakes.

With the Practice tab, learners can target specific skills and pick their favorite lesson types on-demand.

And for the first time, we’ve made these practice sessions available to all learners, for free!

Here’s how it works.


A screenshot of the Duolingo Practice tab, showing “Free Practice” options. The featured option is “Focused Listening” but the list of other options includes: Speak, Listen, Mistakes, Stories, Radio, and Words.

Strengthen specific skills

The Practice tab offers a variety of options for practice.

Mistakes: Review previous mistakes, so they won’t trip you up next time.

A screen showing mistake review, with several exercises the learner can review from their lessons.
A Duolingo lesson screen at the beginning of a mistake review, with Duo the owl saying “You’ll review 10 mistakes in this practice set.”

Words: Study recommended words to bolster your vocabulary.

A Practice screen inviting the learner to “Practice your French words” for 10XP. There are 58 vocabulary words in French available to practice.
A Duolingo exercise where the learner has to choose a French vocabulary word in the left column and match it to the corresponding English word in the right column.

Speak: Get comfortable speaking the language.


A Duolingo lesson screen with the instructions “Repeat after Lily.” Above Lily’s head is a speech bubble with a French sentence, and below her is a microphone icon, indicating the button to press to repeat the sentence aloud.

Listen: Hone your ear so you can follow along when people speak the language.


A Duolingo lesson screen showing Lucy and the instructions “Listen and respond.” Lucy’s speech bubble is in the form of waveforms instead of words, so the user has to listen to the prompt and choose the correct answer.

Target skills in the Practice tab

Skill lessons in the Practice tab are available for all language courses on iOS and coming soon to Android.

How to get to the Practice tab:

  • Tap the barbell icon in the bottom menu of the home screen.
  • If you don’t see a barbell icon, tap the circle icon with three dots ••• which will open an extended menu where you can see the barbell icon.

Other content in the Practice tab:

  • If Stories, Radio, or Adventures are available in your course, the Practice tab also offers an easy way to revisit this fun, immersive content!
  • If you’re a Max subscriber, the Practice tab also lets you review Video Call and Roleplay sessions.

Improving learning for all

At Duolingo, we’re continually exploring ways to make learning more effective and more fun, for all learners.

Recently we were able to make Explain My Answer, an in-lesson feedback feature, free for all Duolingo learners. With the Practice tab, we’re excited to offer even more learning options for free to everyone.

It’s another step closer to achieving our mission: to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. 💚