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 special 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.
- Practice and correction: Complete spoken or written exercises and get corrections from 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 recognized standard for creating language lessons.
Effective
We’re obsessed with the effectiveness of Busuu and regularly measure how well our language-learning methodology works.
In 2016, we conducted an independent study with a research team from the City University of New York and 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 just like you from around the world, practicing and sharing language knowledge with each other through written and verbal exercises. Plus, you can submit these exercises to our Community and 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 expert-crafted course content, we’ve incorporated artificial intelligence into your language learning journey. Your experience begins with a Placement Test to start you at the correct level and continues with popular grammar and vocabulary review tools that are available along the way 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.