which duolingo courses have stories?

• For English speakers learning Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Japanese (Korean coming soon!)
• For Chinese speakers learning English.
• For Portuguese speakers learning English or German.
• For Spanish speakers learning English.

Learning a new language can be hard work, and testing your reading and listening comprehension isn’t always the most riveting part of the process. Duolingo Stories is designed to change that, providing a more interesting way to map your progress…

The company first launched the feature on the web, but it’s today come to the iOS app. The company says it will be added to the Android app “soon.”

Some are standalone stories designed to be read or listened to in one sitting, while others are multi-part stories designed to keep you engaged over time.

You can choose between classic tales like Puss in Boots, original fiction, or nonfiction like biographies.

Availability of Duolingo Stories is currently limited to a handful of languages.

One of the best somewhat new additions to Duolingo is Duolingo Stories! Duolingo Stories are short stories that you listen to while you read along. As you go along, you fill in the blanks in the conversation and practice vocabulary as well as your listening skills.

UPDATE: Duolingo Stories no longer has its own tab, instead they are dispersed throughout the course itself.

If you want Stories on their own, Super Duolingo has added that as a new feature in their Practice tab.

Not every language has Duolingo Stories as an option. Here are the languages that currently have Duolingo Stories available:

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If the language course you are currently completing doesn’t have the book icon on the bottom of the app, then that language does not have Duolingo Stories available yet.

However, Duolingo is constantly adding new updates (one of which is FINALLY Italian Duolingo Stories YAY!) so keep an eye out for the language you are learning!

One of the best ways to earn XP SUPER fast is by completing Duolingo Stories. In the first set of Stories, you earn 14 XP per story. In the second set, you earn 16 XP.

From there, it varies depending on your language and how many stories they have created. In French, you can get up to 28 XP per story in Set 24.

Not every language will have that many sets. Your language might have more beginner stories available, so the XP that you earn will be less.

Want to stop forgetting the words you’ve learned and maintain your fluency? Check out this book on Amazon about how to stay fluent in a language over time without losing fluency!

In order to unlock Duolingo Stories, you need to reach Checkpoint 1 or earn 10 crowns on your Duolingo tree. After that, you have to complete all of the stories inside of a set before you can move on to the locked stories in the next set.

Yes, Duolingo Stoires get more difficult as you get further along. The stories that are more difficult will earn you more XP.

Unlike the main lessons of Duolingo, you can definitely tell when the stories get more difficult. As you progress through the sets, there will be less and less English and more of the language you are learning.

The native speakers will speak faster and they will use more words that you may not be familiar with.

That is why you have to unlock the sets before moving on, since the later stories may be too difficult for the level you are currently at language-wise.

If you want to learn a language faster than ever, I also highly recommend reading Benny Lewis’s book on how to learn a language in JUST 3 months.

In a Duolingo Story, you are listening to a conversation between two people. The Story has a name that is the theme of the conversation, like a short story.

As you go through, there are different exercises that Duolingo has you do that test your listening and reading comprehension.

The first one is having you listen to a phrase and then you have to choose what words you heard. First, they will just have a few words missing like this:

Then they will have you fill in an entire phrase without any hints which will be slightly more difficult.

One of the best parts about Duolingo Stories is that they also act as a reading comprehension test like you used to take back in school.

Throughout the lesson, they will ask you questions about what’s going on, like “What is so-and-so upset about?” or “What is so-and-so feeling right now?”

These questions require you to have a deeper understanding about what is happening in the story. They aren’t translation based, but comprehension based, which is somewhat new for Duolingo!

The last part of a Duolingo Story takes new vocabulary from the lesson and has you match them to their English translation. This helps you realize what words you learned during the lesson through context alone or through the questions in the lesson.

I really enjoy this part because it shows the power of comprehensible input, which is when you understand enough about what is going on that you can infer the meaning of the words that you don’t know.

Duolingo Stories does this well by making the stories only slightly more difficult as you go on and taking away bits of English as you progress as well.

I hope you enjoy listening to Duolingo Stories!

One of the best somewhat new additions to Duolingo is Duolingo Stories! Duolingo Stories are short stories that you listen to while you read along. As you go along, you fill in the blanks in the conversation and practice vocabulary as well as your listening skills.

UPDATE: Duolingo Stories no longer has its own tab, instead they are dispersed throughout the course itself.

If you want Stories on their own, Super Duolingo has added that as a new feature in their Practice tab.

Not every language has Duolingo Stories as an option. Here are the languages that currently have Duolingo Stories available:

I seriously would not be able to learn languages without italki (I’m taking 3 classes per week right now) Try out a class and you’ll thank me later. They’re usually $9 or less!

If the language course you are currently completing doesn’t have the book icon on the bottom of the app, then that language does not have Duolingo Stories available yet.

However, Duolingo is constantly adding new updates (one of which is FINALLY Italian Duolingo Stories YAY!) so keep an eye out for the language you are learning!

One of the best ways to earn XP SUPER fast is by completing Duolingo Stories. In the first set of Stories, you earn 14 XP per story. In the second set, you earn 16 XP.

From there, it varies depending on your language and how many stories they have created. In French, you can get up to 28 XP per story in Set 24.

Not every language will have that many sets. Your language might have more beginner stories available, so the XP that you earn will be less.

Want to stop forgetting the words you’ve learned and maintain your fluency? Check out this book on Amazon about how to stay fluent in a language over time without losing fluency!

In order to unlock Duolingo Stories, you need to reach Checkpoint 1 or earn 10 crowns on your Duolingo tree. After that, you have to complete all of the stories inside of a set before you can move on to the locked stories in the next set.

Yes, Duolingo Stoires get more difficult as you get further along. The stories that are more difficult will earn you more XP.

Unlike the main lessons of Duolingo, you can definitely tell when the stories get more difficult. As you progress through the sets, there will be less and less English and more of the language you are learning.

The native speakers will speak faster and they will use more words that you may not be familiar with.

That is why you have to unlock the sets before moving on, since the later stories may be too difficult for the level you are currently at language-wise.

If you want to learn a language faster than ever, I also highly recommend reading Benny Lewis’s book on how to learn a language in JUST 3 months.

In a Duolingo Story, you are listening to a conversation between two people. The Story has a name that is the theme of the conversation, like a short story.

As you go through, there are different exercises that Duolingo has you do that test your listening and reading comprehension.

The first one is having you listen to a phrase and then you have to choose what words you heard. First, they will just have a few words missing like this:

Then they will have you fill in an entire phrase without any hints which will be slightly more difficult.

One of the best parts about Duolingo Stories is that they also act as a reading comprehension test like you used to take back in school.

Throughout the lesson, they will ask you questions about what’s going on, like “What is so-and-so upset about?” or “What is so-and-so feeling right now?”

These questions require you to have a deeper understanding about what is happening in the story. They aren’t translation based, but comprehension based, which is somewhat new for Duolingo!

The last part of a Duolingo Story takes new vocabulary from the lesson and has you match them to their English translation. This helps you realize what words you learned during the lesson through context alone or through the questions in the lesson.

I really enjoy this part because it shows the power of comprehensible input, which is when you understand enough about what is going on that you can infer the meaning of the words that you don’t know.

Duolingo Stories does this well by making the stories only slightly more difficult as you go on and taking away bits of English as you progress as well.

I hope you enjoy listening to Duolingo Stories!

Duolingo Stories is a way for intermediate or advanced learners to practice their listening and reading comprehension through the use of bite-sized interactive stories.[1]

Each story comes with questions that, if answered correctly, will earn the user XP toward their language tree.

Note: As of the new Duolingo path update, stories are fully implemented into the learning path and can no longer be chosen by the user.

Stories are grouped into sets. Sets have 4 stories. Initially, Set One is unlocked once you earn 10 crowns and to unlock a set you must earn 5 more crowns.

A full story may be composed of several parts. The longest full story has ten parts.

The first 20 stories. These stories are shorter, have simpler language and all the questions and some alternatives are in your target language.

In total 143 different full stories totalling 229 individual stories.

See also: Exercise.

There are around 12 exercises in a story.

E means easy and N means normal.

In May 2019 some questions in the stories instead of being in your target language were changed to be in English (the only available base language then).[2]

The Stories page initially had the titles in your target language. Beginning October 2018 they are shown in the base language.[3] To see the name of the story in your target language that story must be unlocked.

Stories in different languages may not be identical. For example, the bride’s father in Locked Bathroom is happily married in the Spanish version and divorced in the Portuguese, French and English versions.