Learn to Speak Fluently with Busuu’s New AI-Powered Conversations

If you’re ready to build your confidence in a new language and learn to speak fluently, Busuu’s new AI-powered Conversations feature is for you. Introducing Busuu Conversations, where you’ll get real-time speaking practice with personalized feedback!

The new Conversations feature, built into Busuu’s award-winning language learning platform, is designed to support Busuu’s existing lessons and help language learners improve their speaking proficiency faster.

Using Conversations is easy. Simply choose to start a conversation directly related to your lessons or pick a topic you’d like to work on, then start chatting with AI tailored to you and your language proficiency. You’ll practice speaking in interactive, responsive exercises mirroring real-life conversations in realistic, everyday scenarios.

Learn to speak fluently with AI

The new Busuu Conversations feature can help you reach your goals sooner. Here are just a few of the many benefits of adding dynamic, AI-powered learning to Busuu’s language courses.

Build conversation skills

Rote learning is for the birds! With Busuu Conversations, each conversation you start is unique and dynamic, so you can take what you’ve learned and practice applying it to real-world, flexible situations. With your tailored AI chat partner, you can focus on the topics you’re learning or the ones that matter to you and practice speaking at your CEFR level as often as you want.

Boost your career prospects

Many language learners are learning for work – whether to get a promotion or succeed in a new country. If you’re learning a language for your career, working on your ability to listen and respond in your new language is important for success.

After all, while a friend or teacher might be patient while you learn, at work, you need more speed and precision in your understanding and responses – whether you’re presenting to a client or working in a kitchen.

Using the new ‘Speak’ tab, you can focus your attention on work-related conversations to make progress faster toward reaching your goals.

Ace your proficiency test

Language proficiency tests always include a spoken portion. From students studying for the AP Spanish exam to professionals taking the TOEFL to qualify for a new position at work, you’ll need to demonstrate the ability to respond naturally to unexpected prompts if you want to make top marks.

With Busuu Conversations, you can build your spoken language skills with infinite prompts and personalized feedback, no matter what time of day or night you’re studying.

Gain confidence

Feedback after each Conversation lets you know you’re on the right track. With Busuu, you’ll go from not speaking a language to speaking fluently in incremental steps – starting with lessons, then speaking practice, then Conversations, then engaging with the Busuu Community – so you build confidence in your speaking skills one step at a time.

Plus, each Conversation is made to support your lessons on Busuu. That means you’re not stuck having a meandering conversation with a bot. You’re tasked with specific role-plays that complement the grammar and vocabulary you’re currently learning and help you build skills you can actually apply in real life. For example, you might be prompted to practice making an appointment with a doctor’s office or placing an order in a café. That means you can enter those real situations with more confidence, having practiced in a practical and organic way.

Reduce anxiety

Surveyed language learners’ top concerns are always about getting more speaking practice and being scared to speak in real-world situations. Feeling anxious when trying to use a language you’re just learning is perfectly natural and an almost universal experience.

The best thing you can do to reduce the anxiety that comes with learning a new language and putting it to use is practice, practice, practice! The goal is not to be perfectly fluent the first time you talk to someone in your new language, but to feel comfortable enough to try. It’s the only way you’ll improve!

With Busuu, you can start practicing pronunciation with speaking practice, build confidence and fluency in a safe environment with Conversations, and grow your skills with corrections from the Busuu Community, so by the time you have to use your new skills in the real world, you’re ready to take the leap.

Worth noting: Post-conversation feedback is only available for those learning English and Spanish, with the interface language set to one of these at this time. If you’re learning either English or Spanish and want to receive feedback, you can change your display language in your account settings. You can still practice with Conversations if learning English or Spanish with all of our interface languages.

With Conversations, you’ll be better prepared for real-world conversations, whether you’re learning a language to travel, connect with friends and family, ace a test, or advance at work.

Busuu Conversations is a Premium feature and is only available on iOS in the Complete English and Complete Spanish Courses. You can try a few lessons as a free learner to see how your speaking skills could improve before upgrading for unlimited access.

Busuu Conversations is the best AI online learning tool for language learners

Here’s what makes Busuu Conversations unique and the ideal AI-powered tool to help you learn to speak fluently:

1. Tailored to your level

You could try to practice conversations in a new language with a general Language-Learning Model (LLM), but you’ll likely find yourself climbing uphill to get meaningful practice and stay on track. With Conversations, you get a directed conversation with an AI chat partner programmed specifically to converse with language learners at your level.

Conversations are leveled to match your progress, from A1 (Beginner) to C1 (Advanced). Busuu lessons are grouped by level according to the CEFR, and the chat feature levels up with you as you learn.

Pro Tip: Already an advanced learner? With Busuu, you can take a proficiency test to start at the right level from the get-go so you can skip straight to the speaking practice you need.

2. Personalized feedback

Simply practicing chatting won’t get you very far if you don’t know when you’re making mistakes. That’s why you get feedback after each conversation on Busuu. Your conversation answers will be analyzed by the AI and you’ll automatically receive personalized feedback. You’ll get checkmarks when you’ve nailed it and suggestions addressing specific changes you may want to make for future conversations.

3. Low-pressure practice

When we learn a language as children, we typically learn for the first time from our family members or in a classroom environment. Both scenarios provide plenty of opportunities to get live, in-person practice speaking out loud.

Unfortunately, as we get older, after school is over, learning a language typically involves much more self-guided learning and fewer opportunities to learn to speak in low-stakes environments. That’s why it was so important to us to build a tool like Busuu Conversations. The Conversations feature offers users a safe space to make mistakes and apply their growing knowledge in new ways. That means you learn not just to parrot new phrases but to think through how to actually use the language in real time.

And because Conversations is designed to respond organically and dynamically, it’s an endless resource for you to keep practicing and skill-building.

4. Focus on useful skills

Conversations on Busuu aren’t just random chatter with a bot – the Conversations feature is a directed part of your lessons on Busuu, meaning it’s crafted to support and improve specific skills as you learn new things.

When you use Conversations, you’ll be asked to use what you’ve learned and apply it to specific scenarios that mimic real-world conversations that you’re likely to have. No talking about whether your horse likes to eat apples or your uncle has ten purple purses – you’ll be asked to practice skills like participating in a meeting, hosting a dinner party, or asking for directions.

5. Made by humans, for humans

One of the things that’s made the award-winning Busuu platform so great from the get-go (in our humble opinion, at least) is our team of language learning experts. They craft Busuu’s lessons to make sure they’re practical and digestible so you can actually make progress and learn a new language.

The Conversations feature is no different. It’s powered by an LLM, but scaffolded by content from our experts and designed to support those expertly-crafted lessons. It was created to answer a need our users expressed in surveys – to get more practical experience using and applying what they’ve learned in a safe, learning-oriented environment.

Worth noting: Not sure you’re comfortable with AI? When you’re first prompted to use Conversations, you’ll have the option to review our Privacy Policy. Your voice will be recorded and saved to help train the LLM but will not be used to uniquely identify you.

Use Busuu Conversations to reach your goals

* Choose your topic

No matter what your reason for learning, Conversations can help you get speaking practice directly related to the ways you want to apply your new language skills.

* Endless possibilities

With Busuu’s LLM-based feature, each conversation is new and unique, so you’ll never run out of opportunities to practice specific skills or try out new things as you learn.

* Lessons, applied

Some apps only teach you words and phrases to memorize. With Conversations, you’ll learn to think on your feet and apply what you’ve learned so you can speak in your own words.

Busuu is the best app for improving your conversation skills

With the addition of AI online learning, Busuu is the app for learning a new language and building the skills you need to speak fluently.

Let’s take another look at what makes Busuu so great:

• Busuu’s lessons are crafted by language learning experts to help you make progress faster.

• Learning on Busuu now also includes the AI-powered Conversations feature, which is designed to support those expertly crafted lessons and help you apply what you’ve learned to real-world situations. With Conversations, you’ll learn to think on your feet.

• When you practice a new language with Conversations, you get tailored, leveled speaking practice, real-time feedback, and endless opportunities to build your skills.

• Busuu is designed to support the needs of all learners, with lessons and conversations focused on everything from addressing work scenarios to building interpersonal relationships to handling travel needs.

• With Busuu, you have the tools you need to develop the fluency and skills required, whether you’re looking to ace a test, get a promotion, connect with family members, have the best vacation possible, or integrate into a new country.

• Speaking practice on Busuu supports the Conversations feature with pronunciation-based tasks. As well as AI-powered conversation and feedback, learners on Busuu get feedback and support from a Community of millions of language learners and fluent speakers ready to cheer you on.

On Busuu, you can learn to speak a language fluently, grow the skills you need to meet your goals – whether you’re integrating into a new country or just trying to connect with a neighbor – and build the confidence you need to put your new skills to use.

And the new AI-integrated Conversations feature makes building your conversation skills easier than ever.