According to a survey commissioned by Busuu and EY-Parthenon, 55% of learners are focused on improving their conversational skills and 66% of learners prefer "listen and repeat" exercises.

Speaking practice provides an immersive experience into a language's sounds, accents, and mouth movements, with videos featuring native speakers. It offers personalized feedback powered by AI, allowing learners to receive instant, actionable insights on how to improve their speaking skills. Using an AI speech recognition tool, speaking practice processes the learners' speech and then grades their sentences.
It then highlights the words that need improvement and delivers personalized feedback based on the words they got wrong. Learners can practice speaking another language in their own time, in a safe, judgment-free space, which helps relieve anxiety throughout their language learning journey.

"Speaking practice is the perfect stepping stone to help language learners feel confident in using another language in real life," said Gino Micacchi, Vice President of Product at Busuu. "The combination of immersive videos using native speakers alongside personalized real-time AI-powered feedback provides learners with a life-like language learning experience."

Speaking practice is available for anyone learning English, Spanish, French, or German across all Busuu's 16 interface languages. English and Spanish learners can experience the full version of AI-powered personalized feedback, which includes actionable insights on how to improve their speaking skills. Any learner can try two speaking lessons for free, while Premium subscribers will have unlimited access to the feature.

Busuu's courses are designed by experts and cover the four key areas needed to learn a language: listening, reading, writing, and speaking. Furthermore, speaking practice is built into Busuu's courses, which means users get a scaffolded learning experience, learning grammar, words and phrases before they reach speaking exercises.