(EXPIRED) Save Almost 50% On Duolingo Plus Annual Subscription With Amex Offer

If you’re interested in learning a new language, there’s a new Duolingo Plus Amex Offer that you might be interested in as it can save you almost 50% on an annual subscription.

The Deal

• Spend $75+ in a single transaction on an annual or family plan subscription of Duolingo Plus online & get $40 back with an Amex Offer.

Key Terms

• Expires July 22, 2022.
• Offer valid only for Duolingo Plus annual plan and family plan subscriptions.
• Valid online via US website only at duolingo.com/plus.
• Excludes in-app purchases via Apple or Google Play.
• Excludes Duolingo English Test and Readlang.com.
• Valid only on purchases made in US dollars.
• Qualifying charges must post to your account before the campaign end date in order to be considered eligible.
• If you are a new customer receiving a free trial, you may not be charged until the free trial period has lapsed. Please note if you purchase a subscription, unless you notify the merchant that you want to pause, cancel, or that you do not want to auto renew, your subscription will automatically renew for another subscription period (subject to applicable law) of equal length (for example monthly, or annually). This means that the merchant will collect the then-applicable subscription fee and any taxes by charging a credit card the merchant has on record for you without notifying you, unless notification is required by applicable law.

Quick Thoughts

Growing up in the UK, I chose to take a couple of languages in secondary school (our version of high school, except we finished school when 16 years old rather than 18). The two most common languages for students to take were French and German and those were the languages I chose.

Our grades worked differently there, so we received grades for each separate subject after taking exams (known as GCSEs in my day, although I think that’s changed since the mid 90s) rather than getting a high school diploma. I took to German pretty well and got an A for that subject; French wasn’t quite as easy, but I earned a B which I guess is still très bien.

I haven’t had much need to speak French or German since I left school, so most of that learning has gone by the wayside. For some reason though, I still remember “Wie komme ich am besten zum bahnhof bitte” which seemed like it’s the quintessential German sentence for British schoolkids to learn. In case you’re wondering, it means “What is the best way to get to the train station please?” – a little less scandalous than the only French phrase that some people will have learned courtesy of Lady Marmalade.

I used to enjoy learning foreign languages and, with it being the UK, it was a little easier getting to use French and German seeing as their countries were virtually on our doorstep and our school often ran exchange programs with French and German students. Despite that, I haven’t made any kind of concerted effort to learn a foreign language since finishing school at 16, although it’s something I know would be useful and that I’d like to do at some point.

I’ve heard good things from people who’ve used Duolingo before, so that’s something that’s been on my radar for a while. I don’t think I’m motivated enough right now to want to pay for the premium version of Duolingo seeing as there’s a free version I’d use first to make sure it’d be something I’d be committed to.

However, if you’re interested in Duolingo Plus – their premium subscription service – this Amex Offer could be a great way to test that out at a greatly reduced price. If you’re already familiar with the free version of Duolingo, this is apparently what you’ll get by upgrading to Duolingo Plus:

• No ads: Learn without interruptions
• Unlimited Hearts: Enable unlimited hearts so mistakes won’t slow you down
• Mistakes Review. Make a mistake? No problem, you’ll receive a personalized lesson to practice your mistakes.
• Monthly streak repair. Your streak will be automatically repaired for free once a month.
• Progress/Mastery Quiz. Track how much of the course you’ve mastered.
• Unlimited skill test-outs. Test out of any level.
• Unlimited attempts at Legendary skill levels. Master each of your skills by reaching level 6, Legendary!

This Duolingo Amex Offer states that you have to spend $75+ in a single transaction in order to trigger the $40 statement credit. Duolingo Plus costs $6.99 per month, but paying for a monthly subscription wouldn’t be eligible as the $75+ has to be spent in a single transaction. Most subscription services offer a discount when paying annually rather than monthly, but when trying to research the annual cost it looks like you don’t get a discount when paying for an annual subscription with Duolingo.

That means that you’d need buy the annual Duolingo Plus subscription for one person for $83.88 (i.e. 12 * $6.99) in order to trigger the statement credit from the Amex Offer. That means you’d be saving 47.7% for your first year which is a decent discount as that works out to an average of $3.66 per month, albeit paid as one lump sum rather than monthly.

I’d hoped that there’d a way to stack this deal by clicking through from a shopping portal, but Duolingo doesn’t show up on Cashback Monitor. If you’re aware of some other way to enhance this deal, please let us know in the comments below – danke schön.

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