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About Busuu
Busuu teaches languages through compact lessons with speaking, listening, reading and writing practice. Its speaking exercises give personalised pronunciation feedback and use videos featuring native speakers.
A community of learners lets you exchange tips and get corrections from native speakers of the language you are studying. Courses can be adjusted to different goals. It runs in the browser and as apps for Android and iOS, and you can start for free.
Strengths
- Feedback from a community of native speakers
- Pronunciation feedback in speaking practice
- Short lessons that fit into a daily routine
Limitations
- Full course access requires payment
- Proprietary service that needs an account
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumFree to start, with a paid subscription for full access.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Busuu
- Platforms
- Android, iOS, Web
- How it runs
- Downloadable app, Web application
- Account
- Required
- Best suited for
- Learners who want structured lessons plus corrections from native speakers
- Categories
- Learning tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Busuu
Compare allSoftware that can replace Busuu for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Babbel
A subscription language learning app built around structured lessons focused on everyday conversation.
Babbel offers structured conversation-focused lessons, but it requires a paid subscription and does not describe feedback from native speakers.
Duolingo
A language-learning app with short game-like lessons, plus courses in subjects such as chess.
Duolingo gives short game-like lessons with streaks and more subjects such as chess, but lacks community corrections from native speakers and is lighter than a structured course.
Rosetta Stone
An immersion-based language-learning app with pronunciation feedback, conversation practice and flashcards.
Rosetta Stone is a paid membership using immersion without translation, with speech recognition pronunciation feedback in place of Busuu's native speaker community.
Memrise
A language learning app with courses built around spaced repetition and videos of native speakers.
Memrise uses spaced repetition and native speaker videos across many rare languages, but it is web only here and has no native speaker corrections.
Pimsleur
An audio-first language-learning app built around 30-minute spoken lessons for conversational practice.
Pimsleur is a paid, audio-first course with 30-minute spoken lessons that work offline and hands-free, covering 51 languages for up to four users.
Speak
A language learning app that uses an AI tutor for spoken conversation practice.
Speak replaces native speaker feedback with an AI tutor for spoken conversation on Android and iOS, covering a more limited set of languages.
Busuu as an alternative
Listings that name Busuu as an alternative.
Drops
A visual, game-like vocabulary trainer for over 55 languages, built around five-minute daily sessions.
Busuu offers short expert-made lessons with feedback from native speakers and pronunciation practice, with full course access requiring payment.
Lingvist
A language-learning app that teaches vocabulary with adaptive algorithms and short daily sessions.
Busuu provides short structured lessons with feedback from native speakers and pronunciation practice, with full access requiring payment.
Tandem
A language exchange app that pairs you with native speakers who want to learn your language.
Busuu gives structured lessons with corrections from native speakers on web and mobile, rather than open conversation with partners, and full courses require payment.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
HelloTalk
A language exchange app for chatting with native speakers, with built-in translation and correction tools.
Clozemaster
A language-learning game that builds vocabulary through fill-in-the-blank sentences in over 50 languages.
LingQ
A language learning service built around reading and listening to real content such as books and podcasts.
