Busuu: Learn & Speak Languages

The interface is much less consistent in registering touches then other apps which is mildly frustrating, especially when I'm trying to rush through a lesson before work. Overall less snappy than other apps and it feels much more primitive. The lessons seem fine but the app itself leaves a lot to be desired. The layout is also really annoying. All of the options when you're touching the screen should be towards the bottom for people with smaller hands or trying to use their device with one hand.

I signed up for this last year and was able to get into my account soon after it was created, but I wasn't able to log in the last few times I wanted to access it. I would try to get a password reset to my email, but nothing from the app ever came through except for the payment receipt, so I forgot about the app until today. I got a notification that another $62 was taken from my account, and the app still wouldn't let me log in or send a code. I canceled and got no refund.

Three years on. Subscription won't sync between devices. Progress won't sync. But at least the useless leader board points sync. Excellent priorities. Refunding subscription. Again. (Don't offer to help. This is basic functionality. Get it right.) Another year, another year of not being able to access the app. App logged out. Won't let me log in. Won't send a password reset. Still took my money.

I switched from Duo because they force feed so many new words, I couldn't remember them. I began to notice the AI voices would mispronounce a lot of words. Busuu is nice in that along with AI, there are videos of real speakers so not only can you hear them pronounce the words correctly, you can see how they move their mouths. My only problem is in Latin Spanish, progress is stuck on 1% fluent and no words are being added to vocabulary review, whereas I'm not having that problem w/ Italian.

I was considering buying a premium subscription after Duolingo lapsed, but no more. The ads to buy premium are egregiously in your face, popping up at least 10 times per lesson, completely covering the screen. The other ads are the worst kind, too, find the x or the >> three times in a row for the scammy apps you've seen a million times before. And on top of that, the lesson often fails to load after you finish the ad, and you have to do it all over again. All huge red flags. No thx