Busuu: Learn & Speak Languages

Name: Busuu: Learn & Speak Languages
Rating: 4.660404 (926830 reviews)
Author: Busuu

Learn Languages Fast - Learn Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German & more.

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Busuu is a powerful language learning Chrome extension designed to help you learn and speak 14 languages including Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, and more. It offers interactive lessons that cover reading, writing, speaking, and listening, tailored for both beginners and intermediate learners. The app's unique feature is its global community of over 120 million users, allowing you to practice with fluent speakers and get feedback on exercises, vocabulary, and pronunciation.

Regularly updated course content includes specialty lessons such as advanced Spanish exam preparation, Japanese manga reading, and English for business. Whether you aim to travel, work, or simply enjoy a new language, Busuu prepares you for confident real-life conversations through engaging, real-world scenarios. Download now for free and start learning languages faster with support from a vibrant language learning community.

By:: Busuu
Downloads:: 49,425,667+ 82.84K
Rating:: 4.66

(926,830) 3,485 new ratings
Version:: 32.10.0(1298902) (Last updated: 2025-04-23)
Version code:: 1298902
Creation date:: 2011-07-29
Permissions:: android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID
android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION
android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_TOPICS
android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE
android.permission.AUTHENTICATE_ACCOUNTS
android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE
android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_DATA_SYNC
android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS
android.permission.INTERNET
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Size:: 97.80M
Email:: te*****@busuu.com
URLs:: Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Google Play Store
Updated:: a day ago

Ranking

# 2,634 ▲ 6

Other rankings

#36 in Education (Gross)

#41 in Education (Free) ▲ 1

#10 in english learning keyword 19 ▼ 2

#13 in learn keyword 30 ▲ 1

#15 in french keyword 14 ▼ 1

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User reviews

Users appreciate Busuu for its structured, grammar-focused lessons and native speaker interactions that support language learning beyond simple games. However, many express frustration with excessive ads, aggressive premium upgrade prompts, and technical issues like crashes and speech recognition failures. Multiple reviews mention limited free access due to paywalls and poor customer support experiences. Despite these setbacks, learners find value in the app's traditional approach and community feedback system, recommending it especially for more serious language study.

Pros

Offers structured and traditional language learning with grammar explanations and vocabulary practice.
Provides interaction with native speakers for feedback on speaking and writing exercises.
Focuses more on teaching substance rather than gamification, appealing to adult learners.
Supports multiple languages including Japanese, Russian, and Korean with quality lessons.
Allows community engagement where users can help each other, enhancing the learning experience.

Cons

Excessive advertising and aggressive promotion of the premium subscription, negatively impacting user experience.
Technical issues such as app crashes, problems with speech recognition, and bugs in lesson navigation.
Many lessons and features are locked behind a paywall, limiting access for free users.
Customer support is reported as unhelpful or unresponsive to issues and refund requests.
Frequent bugs causing inability to proceed with lessons, and forced watching of ads repeatedly due to app errors.

Recent reviews

I absolutely love this app! It's honestly very great for learning a language, and teaches you a lot of stuff! It's better than Duolingo, in my opinion, because it actually teaches you useful things and not in a game form. It is an amazing app, and I use it every day to learn Japanese! The fact that they actually have people that you can talk to and correct your mistakes with on this app is amazing aswell! It's a 10/10 for me,and I highly recommend this app if you want to learn a language better!

Eva Johnson, 2025-02-02

I used before and was good, but know is much better even. I love how manage to explain the grammar easily step by step while you are learning some vocabulary and practicing. Have different structures to learn but mainly are following the A1-A2- B1-B2 structure. The only problem I find, is on advanced levels, any level takes lot of time and I believe, the idea of this app is be able to do each level in not more than 5m-8m.