PITTSBURGH, May  04, 2026  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Duolingo, Inc. (NASDAQ:DUOL) announced results for the first quarter ending March 31, 2026 in a shareholder letter that is posted on its Investor Relations website at

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Duolingo Reports First Quarter 2026 Results

Duolingo Reports Strong Q1 2026 Results and Strategic Progress

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    <p>PITTSBURGH, May  04, 2026  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Duolingo, Inc. (NASDAQ:DUOL) announced results for the first quarter ending March 31, 2026 in a shareholder letter that is posted on its Investor Relations website at</p>
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    <p>Duolingo&#039;s Q1 2026 results indicate progress on its strategy, focusing on speaking skills and new features to enhance user engagement. This approach aims to bolster long-term growth and cement Duolingo&#039;s position as a leader in the language learning market.</p>
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    <ul><li>Duolingo announces Q1 2026 results; shares strategic progress.</li><li>CEO emphasizes focus on speaking and learner engagement.</li><li>Investment in features aims for sustainable long-term growth.</li><li>Live webcast will detail results and future strategies.</li><li>Duolingo maintains leading position in mobile language learning.</li></ul>
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    <ul><li><strong>Duolingo (DUOL)</strong>: Duolingo&#039;s innovative strategies are vital for maintaining its market lead.</li></ul>
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    <p>This news falls under &#039;Corporate Developments&#039; as it highlights Duolingo&#039;s operational strategies and their implications for long-term growth, demonstrating the company&#039;s ongoing commitment to innovation in the education sector.</p>
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    <ul><li>Duolingo&#039;s new features may attract more users and improve retention rates.</li><li>Live webcast insights might lead to positive investor sentiment.</li><li>Increased focus on speaking could differentiate DUOL from competitors.</li><li>Any positive financial data could elevate stock price in the short term.</li></ul>
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    <ul><li>Q1 2026 results announced on May 4, 2026.</li><li>Duolingo emphasizes speaking as a core learning feature.</li><li>The app leads globally in mobile language learning.</li><li>Duolingo remains the top-grossing education app.</li></ul>
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    <p>Invest in DUOL for potential medium-term growth driven by enhanced user engagement strategies.</p>
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<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://www.globenewswire.com/styles/gnw_nitf.css"></link><p align="left">PITTSBURGH, May  04, 2026  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Duolingo, Inc. (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/quote/DUOL">DUOL</a>) announced results for the first quarter ending March 31, 2026 in a shareholder letter that is posted on its Investor Relations website at investors.duolingo.com.</p>  <p align="left">&#34;In Q1, we made progress on the strategy we laid out last quarter,&#34; said Luis von Ahn, Co-Founder and CEO of Duolingo. &#34;We&#39;ve made speaking a core part of the learning experience, and we've added more features and content to continue to support learners.&#34;</p>  <p align="left">&#34;We&#39;re still early in executing our 2026 plan, and we&#39;re building a product that drives long-term engagement and loyalty. We believe that&#39;s what will make Duolingo a much larger and more durable business over time.&#34;</p>  <p align="justify"><strong>Video Webcast</strong><br></br>Duolingo will host a live video webcast to discuss its quarterly results today, May 4, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. ET. Luis von Ahn and Gillian Munson, our Chief Financial Officer, will answer questions from sell side analysts. This webcast and related materials will be publicly available and can be accessed at investors.duolingo.com. A replay will be available on the Investor Relations section of our website two hours following completion of the webcast and will remain available for a period of one year.</p>  <p align="left"><strong>About Duolingo </strong><br></br>Duolingo is the leading mobile learning platform globally. Its flagship app has organically become the world&#39;s most popular way to learn languages and the top-grossing app in the Education category on both Google Play and the Apple App Store. With technology at the core of everything it does, Duolingo has consistently invested to provide learners a fun, engaging, and effective learning experience while remaining committed to its mission to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.</p>  <p align="left"><strong>Forward-Looking Statements</strong></p>  <p align="left">This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. We intend such forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"). All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this press release, including without limitation, statements regarding our business model and strategy and the expected benefits therefrom are forward-looking statements. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you can identify forward-looking statements because they contain words such as "may," "will," "shall," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "could," "intends," "target," "projects," "contemplates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," "goal," "objective," "seeks," or "continue" or the negative of these words or other similar terms or expressions that concern our expectations, strategy, plans, or intentions. Such forward-looking statements are neither promises nor guarantees, but involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements due to various factors, including, but not limited to: our ability to retain and grow our users and sustain their engagement with our products; competition in the online language learning industry; our limited operating history; our ability to maintain or increase profitability; our ability to manage our growth and operate at such scale; the success of our investments; our reliance on third-party platforms to store and distribute our products and collect revenue; our reliance on third-party hosting and cloud computing providers; our ability to compete for advertisements; acceptance by educational organizations of technology-based education; our ability to access, collect, use, and otherwise process Personal Data about our users and payers, and to comply with applicable data privacy laws; our ability to successfully develop, implement and use of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies; our ability adequately obtain, protect and maintain our intellectual property rights; and the other important factors more fully detailed under the caption &#34;Risk Factors&#34; in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, as any such factors may be updated from time to time in our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), accessible on the SEC's website at <a href="http://www.sec.gov" title="www.sec.gov">www.sec.gov</a> and the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at investors.duolingo.com. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release. While we may elect to update such forward-looking statements at some point in the future, unless required by applicable law, we disclaim any obligation to do so, even if subsequent events cause our views to change.</p>  <p align="left"><strong>Contacts</strong></p>  <p align="left"><strong>Investor Relations:</strong><br></br>Deborah Belevan, VP of Investor Relations<br></br>IR@duolingo.com</p>  <p align="left"><strong>Press:</strong><br></br>Monica Earle, Director of Public Relations<br></br>press@duolingo.com<br></br></p> <img alt="" class="__GNW8366DE3E__IMG" src="https://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/ti?nf=OTcxMjUxMCM3NTgxNzAyIzIyMTAwMDY="></img> <br></br><img alt="" src="https://ml.globenewswire.com/media/NmEyYmFhYWItZDMyYy00Y2EyLTg0YjAtZTI2MzlhZDJmMjQxLTEyMjE1NTktMjAyNi0wNS0wNC1lbg==/tiny/Duolingo-Inc-.png" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade"></img><p><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/c55ff6f8-d0f8-46c9-ac3b-ec3182cf93e3"><img src="https://ml.globenewswire.com/media/c55ff6f8-d0f8-46c9-ac3b-ec3182cf93e3/small/duolingo-logo-png.png" border="0" width="150" height="35" alt="Primary Logo"></img></a></p>

Duolingo's Q1 2026 results indicate progress on its strategy, focusing on speaking skills and new features to enhance user engagement. This approach aims to bolster long-term growth and cement Duolingo's position as a leader in the language learning market.

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