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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 (27)

  • e14 says:

    Definitely not a fan of the gamification of language learning and question the usefulness of the phrases offer by Super Duolingo to a traveler but hey ho it’s free.

    • masaccio says:

      Made a difference for me in South America where I encountered lots of people with zero English. But plenty of people just chase XP on the platform rather than wanting to learn.

      • Novice says:

        True.

        I had learnt Spanish and French to school level but now I am good at French and can hold a full conversation in Spanish by using Duolingo. Currently, I am learning Italian. And, I managed to get good at Chess using it.

        It is useful if you are interested in languages.

        • daveinitalia says:

          The Italian course on there is very limited, it only teaches you to a very basic level whereas French and Spanish have a lot more content

          • Novice says:

            I know. I have always been interested in languages and like to know basics of a lot.

            I always find it strange that the people complaining about losing British culture to immigrants etc. can’t string a sentence in their own language without mistakes; spelling and grammatical. Some of the immigrants have better grasp of the English language than the natives. 😂

            I have been multilingual since a very young age due to grandparents and great grandparents teaching me languages they knew.

  • Erico1875 says:

    I downloaded Paul Noble Spanish via a free Audible trial. Similar to Michael Thomas.

  • Thywillbedone says:

    At the rate technology is moving (FaceTime offering instant translation etc) I wouldn’t be buying shares in this business (notwithstanding the genuine allure of actually learning a new language)…

  • Dev says:

    Been using it for French for over 2 years now and whilst not perfect, my vocabulary has improved and I am able to read and write but conversations are still a challenge for me … and that’s just from 5 minutes a day.

    I think it’s worth it. I paid for it after abojt 3-4 months to give it a proper go before committing. It’s slow and steady but it does improve your skills over time.

  • Retron says:

    Worth mentioning it that this isn’t a completely no-strings trial – it’s just a double length version of their normal “try for 14 days (and we hope you’ll forget to cancel)” trial.

    I was hoping it’d be more like the genuinely no strings 3 day trials you get for hitting milestones!

  • Fiona says:

    Someone asked me to trial it and use for 50 days. It was a listening exercise as I’d just had a cochlear implant operation. I used the English language Duolingo. All the characters had American accents. It was so boring and constantly repetitive sentences. Couldn’t wait for the 50 days to be up so I could delete the app!!

    • Rhys says:

      Of course it was boring. You are a fluent English speaker learning beginner’s English!

      • Fiona says:

        I was learning to hear again. I am profoundly deaf. The hearing world has a lot to learn about what deaf people go through.

        • will says:

          I wish you all the best in re acquiring your hearing.
          I think there is a difference in learning new words that you potentially have never heard before and and listening for a language that you can already construct in your head and on the page and perhaps it isnt well designed for the latter.

  • Tracey says:

    My OH has been using the free version since lockdown, for the last couple of years he’s supplemented it with online lessons from a tutor in Spain. On our recent holiday he was talking well with everyone he met, to the extent they answered in Spanish rather than in English.

  • Jon says:

    I’ll never forgive Duolingo for completely restructuring the Japanese course, without notice, when I was midway through it, making it impossible for me to continue without starting over. I was on the paid subscription and tried to get a refund – terrible (non-existent) customer service. Did a chargeback/S75 in the end (I forget which now, but Amex sorted it all out very efficiently).

    A shame, as I enjoyed completing their Chinese course previously, but if I can’t rely on them not to screw me over half way through a course then I certainly won’t be giving them any money again 😉

    • Lumma says:

      Agreed, I found it was a great tool to help pick up basic Spanish during covid but then they got greedy by adding “lives” which locked you out if you made too many mistakes on the free version. I tried going back in when O2 (I think) offered a free trial of this Super Duolinguo and couldn’t get my head around it

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