BETTER THAN DUOLINGO - Busuu Easy Language Learning App Review

This is a review of BUSUU, it is a little bit older now.
NOTE: Please try Busuu yourself before purchasing. I do recommend it for certain students in certain languages but not all students and not all languages. Thanks for watching!

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Most features are free, so for free Spanish learning apps it is perfect.
The Busuu easy language learning system gets you as close to full fluency as any single app can, as far as I am concerned.
People sometimes ask me about Duolingo for Spanish vs Busuu for Spanish and Duolingo vs Mondly, to which my answer is that there is not even a competition. You might as well put polyglot Luca Lampariello (who speaks 14 languages) up against my monolingual son. Busuu is among the best language learning apps if not THE best language learning app. It is also among the best free russian learning apps.
ITalki has been one of my go to language learning tools (video on iTalki language learning coming soon) but it's much more expensive to do a large amount of iTalki than to just use Busuu (all the content can be had for FREE.) You can tell that the people who made this app have actually studied language acquisition theory; it is not a coincidence that they have all these effective language learning techniques worked into the language exercises.
However, where most learning language apps are boring if they effective, Busuu is both effective and interesting to do. Since it is free for the material, it is a sort of diy language learning and if you did the entire course, I am SURE that you could reach fluency in a language. I myself am on the way to reach fluency in French, but you could reach fluency in spanish or German plus nine more languages.
So, if it is the best language learning app you're after, or just the apps better than Duolingo, what you want is Busuu: watch this review to find out why.
People also talk about how to get lingots on duolingo, which I find a bit strange. I have thousands of lingots on Duolingo (mostly due to my 1000 day Duolingo streak), but honestly it makes no difference to anything because this app is better. Duolingo lingots can not be used to pay for enough things.
Anyway, here is the review of the Busuu app which is an alternative to italki, and alternative to Duolingo, alternative to Mondly, alternative to Memrise. I recommend you use it.

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[windhamtravaris]

That’s what happened to me I got incredibly bored with Duolingo saying dog, cat, horse, toy for weeks and when I use Busuu in one week I can have a basic simple convo nothing major but big improvements

[apillowfaceproduction]

Busuu is amazing if you are willing to pay for the premium subscription and that is definetely how it is meant to be used but if you want to use it for free than a lot of the features, such as the study plan, McGraw Hill exams and about half of the content will be unreachable.

[brittanystone]

I'm so glad I found your review because Busuu is exactly what I've been looking for in a language learning service: conversation, real-time memory recall, meaningful input. I all but threw my money at it and it was immediately worth it! Thank you for your commitment to languages and seeing others advance as well. Merci pour ton aide! <3

[rosevillewoman]

I like Duolingo to start a new language but Busuu is much more comprehensive and like you point out Busuu makes you speak and pronounce words and write responses that are graded by native speakers. I like to use multiple resources for learning languages like Duolingo, Busuu and Mondly but if I had to use only one app I would also choose Busuu for all the reasons in this video.

[DanielVlogs]

I purchased Busuu after watching your review and I must say so far I feel like it was the right decision. I was considering either purchasing Busuu or just learning French by myself, but I figured for just £40 for a year (with access to 11 other languages), it would probably be a much better use of my time than searching around on online dictionaries and becoming more and more frustrated with myself. After 10 days, I’ve completed 90% of the A1 section and I will hopefully take the A1 test today. I really love how Busuu teaches you really relevant content. I already had a good basic grasp of French from school and some Duolingo here and there, but I wasn’t at all conversational by any stretch, I wouldn’t last 5 seconds in France. That’s the problem with the language learning system in schools, you’re taught how to pass an exam, not how to speak the language. I worked at grade 9 (A**) level at GCSE French yet I had massive gaps in my knowledge. Also, please could you make another video or at least state your opinion on Nathaniel’s new video on learning Portuguese? I know you’ve probably already been bombarded with comments on it but I loved your last video on it and I’d love to hear your views on his latest approach, no matter how controversial! That’s why I love your channel, it’s very down to earth and practical. Keep it up!

[philsmith]

I've just completed 500 days of Spanish on Duolingo and it has been very useful to get me, a very reluctant and incompetent language learner, to make the habit and even believe I can learn a language. That said, I am not able to hold even a basic conversation so I am very interested in the Busuu app as a next step and make actual progress in communicating with Spanish speakers! Thanks for the review!

[prestokrs]

I never met anyone under 30 who uses Rosetta stone.

[terrifictomm]

The BEST review of a language app I've ever heard. What made it the best is your enthusiasm and commitment to providing a great review.

Your passion was excellent and you voice was always clear. Although with your accent I did have to turn on Closed Captions but just to confirm I'd heard the word I thought I heard correctly.

As proof yours was a good review, I'm going to go check out BUSUU now.

[RosaAndreaJaramillo]

Thanks for recommending busuu! I love it! I studied french for a couple of months at the Alliance Française, studying italian with busuu just felt like that, the app makes it so simple and fun. This is my plan now: italian for 3 or 4 months, then I'm gonna get back to french. Later italian again. I don't want to study 2 langauages at the same time. But definitely those two are my target languages.

You got yourself a new subscriber here! Greetings from Ecuador! :)

[TaelurAlexis]

I’m using Busuu and I love it tbh. I’m using it to learn French and I love the speech recognition feature too! I might really let them charge me for the year lol it seems worth it. I want to be at a conversational level within a year

[Anonymous-cnzl]

I have been using Busuu. What I love about it is that aside from the grammar and vocab lessons, you get to write in sentences or record your voice, then the native speakers who get to read your sentenses or hear your recordings could give you feedback. It's like Busuu is giving you no choice but to be fluent, especially if you put effort and take it seriously. I learned English with it.

[orlaghgaynor]

I knew about Busuu but never really tried it. I used to be a borderline B2 French speaker when I worked in Disneyland Paris 5 years ago for a summer, with just secondary school French, and have since become very rusty. You sold me on Busuu and oh my God, it's the best thing ever for bringing me back up to the standard I was at, and hope to be even better. You definitely converted me from Duolingo to Busuu for French. Thank you so much!

[marktaylor]

So over 80 days ago I started with Duolingo and I honestly felt like I was getting nowhere fast. Four weeks ago I saw an ad for Busuu and I am glad I found it and more importantly decided to use it. I love the community and the feedback they give. It is the encouragement I need at 50 to learn a new language.

[LizzieMcClarence]

Hi!! I just wanted to pop in and say thank you so much for this video - I have been trying to teach myself French with the basic knowledge I have left from school, iTalki and some grammatical study, but I was finding it quite hard/not understanding certain concepts I was hearing. Just done my first half an hour on Bus and its amazing! So helpful, well laid out and really in depth grammatical study too. Duolingo could never.

[Endorphinn_]

I had a Babbel ad before the video: priceless 😂! They knew the danger was coming 😏

[angelaselby]

I guess since so many people learn English, there are a lot of people who feel pretty confident about their English knowledge. I’ve seen people erroneously correct others’ English in some Facebook groups for English learners. I’ve had people “correct” my English, and I’m a native speaker! For example, I had said that I like to eat yams when they are in season, and someone tried to correct me by telling me that yams aren’t a season. 🙄 And there are so many people doing this, that I imagine it would be hard to regulate.

[amyholderness]

Thank you so much for the recommendation. I just switched from Duolingo to Bussu. Upgrade is immediate. Merci!

[coreyfalo]

I'm so glad you told me about BUSUU it's amazing and I finally made it to a B2 in Spanish...it is awi

[limonabr]

I’m 2 weeks in German with Duolingo and we haven’t reached the “red” aspect of an apple yet. It’s actually quite annoying when starting a totally new language

[tempjones]

"you don't know this boy and you don't care about his apple" I can't lmaoooo