About Busuu
Busuu is a self-led language learning platform that focuses on building solid foundations through simplified courses and short, focused lessons. Here's how it works:
- Free or Premium: Sign up and study for free, or subscribe to Premium for additional features and specialist courses.
- Choose your language: Select the language you want to learn and start your lessons.
- Cover the four skills: Our courses teach reading, writing, listening, and speaking, from beginner to advanced levels.
- Practise and correction: Complete spoken or written exercises and get them corrected by our dedicated Community of native speakers.
Course Structure
Our courses are designed to provide comprehensive self-study for language learners. Here's what you can expect:
- Focused learning: Each lesson revolves around a specific topic, like introducing yourself or ordering food in a restaurant.
- Bite-sized lessons: Our lessons teach useful, everyday language in manageable chunks of 3 - 5 minutes.
- Developed by experts: Our courses are created by language experts who apply effective teaching principles to our lessons.
- Fun and engaging: You’ll encounter videos of real people, interactive exercises, audio recordings, conversations with native speakers, and more.
- Aligned with CEFR: Each language course follows the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), a recognised standard for creating language lessons.
Efficacy
We’re obsessed with the efficacy of Busuu and regularly measure the effectiveness of our language-learning methodology.
In 2016, we conducted an independent study with a research team from the City University of New York & the University of South Carolina to measure learning outcomes.
The study found that 22 hours of study with Busuu Premium is equivalent to a college semester of language learning, and all participants improved after learning with Busuu for 16 hours.
Community
Our online Community is at the heart of Busuu. It’s made up of language learners around the world, just like you, practising and sharing language knowledge with each other through written and verbal exercises. Plus, you can submit these exercises to our Community to receive feedback and corrections from other learners, a feature that is unique to Busuu.
Cutting-edge Technology
Your Busuu experience is tailored to you. Alongside our course content crafted by experts, we incorporate artificial intelligence during your language learning journey. It begins with a placement test to start you at the correct level, and along the way, popular grammar and vocabulary review tools are available to help you practice and stay on top of your learning. To chart your progress and test your knowledge, we offer checkpoint quizzes. You’ll know exactly where you are and what you need to focus on to reach your goals.