I Tried Busuu for 1 Year | Language Learning App Review

Today, we are going to see how Busuu can be a valuable part of your language learning, but also why it shouldn’t be the major part of your learning.

After my language learning routine already consisted of learning daily with drops to increase my vocabulary and Lingq to get my comprehensible input in order to prime myself into the language, I’ve also added Busuu.

In this video I will explain first what role Busuu plays in my language learning stack based on scientific research. Then we will have a look at the app and how it works. After that we will review the pro’s and con’s as well as the costs and of course in the end I will conclude things.

▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 - Start
00:25 - Intro
01:03 - The Science - Noticing Hypothesis
04:09 - Busuu App Review
18:13 - Pros and Cons
20:00 - Pricing
20:59 - Conclusion

▬ Resources mentioned ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Busuu
https://www.busuu.com/
https://www.busuu.com/de/premium

Lingq
https://www.lingq.com/?referral=Cx4

The Noticing Hypothesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noticin...
https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/PDFs/SCHMIDT...
   • Jack C. Richards on the Noticing Hypo...  
   • The Noticing Hypothesis in Language L...  

Baader-Meinhof phenomenon or frequency bias
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequen...

Articles/Papers about the Comprehensible Input Theory by Stephen Krashen
http://www.sdkrashen.com/content/arti...
http://sdkrashen.com/content/articles...

Great Presentation by Stephen Krashen (Videoquality is bad but content is King)
   • Stephen Krashen on Language Acquisition