How to Get the Most Out of Free Duolingo

Polly Glott
4 min readApr 1, 2023

You don’t have to pay money to make progress

If you want to get the most out of Duolingo, but without paying for a subscription, then you need to acquire as many gems (or lingots) as you can. That is the currency that unlocks levels beyond your normal progress activity. The app version and web version have slightly different ways of calculation, and work independently from each other — which…

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