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If you want to brush up your language skills before your summer holiday, Marriott Bonvoy has partnered with Duolingo to offer their members a 1-month free trial of Super Duolingo.

If you’re not a member of Marrriot Bonvoy, it’s not a problem. You can sign up for free and immediately receive a code for your Super Duolingo trial.

Marriott Bonvoy is the loyalty programme for Marriott hotels and covers over 9,000 hotels across 36 different brands.

You can find out more about the programme in our updated review of Marriott Bonvoy here.

The Super Duolingo offer runs to 9th July.

What is Super Duolingo?

Duolingo is the world’s leading language app, enabling tens of millions of daily users to gain language skills.

Super Duolingo is designed to ‘help you learn faster and with fewer interruptions’. Anyone can sign up to a one week free trial of Super Duolingo, but thanks to the Marriott Bonvoy collaboration, members can now try it free of charge for a month.

Duolingo offers language courses in 43 languages. These include popular options like French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese (Mandarin) and Japanese as well as languages such as Arabic, Hindi, Irish, Welsh and even Esperanto!

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The key benefits of Super Duolingo over the free version are the lack of advertisements and, if you are making mistakes, personalized lessons to support you in correcting them.

After your free month, your subscription will continue at £59.99 per year / £4.99 per month, unless you choose to cancel. There is also a family membership for £89.99 per year which allows up to six people in a family to enrol.

How to register for your free month

Existing Marriott Bonvoy members can find out more and register here for the Super Duolingo offer.

If you are not yet a member of Marriott Bonvoy but would like to join and take advantage of this offer, then this link lets you join the programme and immediately receive the promo code.

If you are currently a Duolingo subscriber on the free app, you can also use this code to upgrade to Super Duolingo for a month.

This is a good opportunity to try Super Duolingo for free thanks to Marriott Bonvoy. The offer is available till 9th July but you have until early September to redeem your code.

Offer available to Marriott Bonvoy members in the UK and France.

Comments (26)

  • Joe says:

    I’ve been learning German on it for over 3 years now. I haven’t been putting huge amounts of time into it every day but I do generally consistently do something.
    Am I fluent now? No, far from it but I understand a lot of conversations I hear and can join in to an extent.
    I also get replies in German when I try and communicate in shops etc too so it definitely gets a thumbs up from me.

  • ChrisBCN says:

    As somebody who has been learning two languages at the same time over several years –

    * Duolingo is a convenient, easy option (10 minutes a day sitting on your sofa/loo), swiping the app closed after every lesson and then reopening to avoid the ads. It’s not great for learning conversational stuff, but it will expand your vocabulary and give you a little confidence to speak

    * Online video classes are good for practicing speaking and listening to other voices/accents, but can be annoying if the sound quality isn’t great

    * In person classes with professional teachers are the best way to learn, but need the most time and commitment (and £!)

    Thanks for the Bonvoy code HfP, I will be adding it.

    • Barrel for Scraping says:

      The problem with the free tier of Duolingo is there’s so many ads it’s like watching TV in the US. Having to close and reopen the app to bypass the ads soon gets tiring too. I stopped paying for it once I completed the course for the language I wanted to learn but I intended to check back daily for a refresher but the ads just were too much. It would be great if they let you have a reduced rate in the subscription once you finished the course.

      • Retron says:

        So many ads? I just use a hosts file from someonewhocares and don’t see any. It’s a 2-minute job to do and doesn’t involve any software!

  • John says:

    I quit when they deleted the forums, which was the only useful thing about it and had lots of genuinely good posts where people wrote about the finer points of grammar.

    The idea seems to be that you learn like a child by repetition, but we are adults who can also learn by reading explanations. The courses have very few of these and just expects you to accept new stuff without explaining why certain phrases or grammar are that way.

    • daveinitalia says:

      The forums were good and I was a bit annoyed when they took them away part way through the annual plan. It seems one of the reasons to do this was so they could sell the AI powered ‘explain my answer’ feature as part of the Max plan (Duolingo Max is selected languages only).

      The forums helped explain more complex grammar. Another thing they got rid of was Duolingo Classes (or events). I believe that before covid these were actual in person get togethers where like-minded people could practice, but after covid they moved online but they weren’t promoted in the app so many people didn’t know about them as you had to use the web version. There used to be some interesting things there

  • Barrel for Scraping says:

    In other news easyJet have announced 11 new destinations from Newcastle. Unfortunately you can’t learn Geordie from Duolingo

    Also not many people know there’s a 24 hour Greggs at Newcastle airport it’s located next to international arrivals

    • Rob says:

      They’ve been on the easyJet Holidays website for a couple of days. Weird system they have whereby Holidays starts openly selling them and then a few days later the airline goes ‘surprise!’ and we’re all ‘yes, we know ….’!

  • SammyJ says:

    Don’t sign up for a full-priced subscription – look on ebay and buy one of the slots people sell in their family plan for around £15 a year instead. Done it twice for my two kids and no issues at all.

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