Busuu, A Language Learning Community

Busuu.com (Busuu) is a social network for learning various languages in the world. The languages that are featured in this websites consist of English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Japanese and Chinese. Busuu offers course based on CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) level A1, A2, B1 and B2. Busuu.com has attractive and interactive feature that learner can enjoy to learn. In Busuu.com, learners act as student and tutor. Learners can share their exercise and then another learner can give comment or correction to the exercise. Busuu.com also provides chat box for learners (users) to communicate each other.

·   Feature         :

1.      12 languages to learn

2.      Busuu talk (chat box)

3.      Exercise

4.      Busuu dictionary

5.      Collins grammar guide

Welcome page of Busuu

To get access on this site, first we need to sign up to become a member. There are two kinds of member that Busuu offers; they are free and premium users. As free users, we have limited access to learn in Busuu. We just can access the material which only offered freely in the trial period and also the material that have no sign as the premium one. It will be more beneficial if we become the premium member, because there are more opportunities to learn vocabulary and another material from this site.

When we have signed in to Busuu.com after we did the registration, we will see the homepage.

From this page we can start our learning. We will be offered for the first course. We will start learning from the Beginner A1 level. Then we can continue to another lever after we finish the first level. Learning the language in Busuu.com seems very simple and attractive. We can do the exercise and post it. The other members can give comment or correct our job. For example, we do speaking practice, so we record our voice and share it. Another member can correct and give comment to our recording. When we will finish the level, we will have such a final test to know what we have learned. For each test, we can save the vocabulary for our own learning. It is like our dictionary of vocabulary.

Busuu.com course consist of learning speaking, writing, listening and reading. Each skill has different exercise and related to the specific topic. When learning the language, the topic of the subject will be varying, such as: Introduction, Holiday, Christmas, or even Love. The special feature on Busuu.com is we can record our voice and share it. It helps us to improve our speaking skill. In Busuu.com, we also can access National Geographic, Collins Grammar Guides and Online Dictionary. 

 

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