🇩🇪📱 learning german with BUSUU for a week!
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- čas přidán 14. 11. 2020
- yes, you read that right. Elysse DaVega finally succumbed to the curiosity and tried a language app-- a pretty darn cool one at that! i can honestly say i learned a lot more about what i prefer in an app, but above that, i'm eternally grateful that they gave me the opportunity to say the word Kreuzfahrt. that's always cool. check it out below!
Start learning a language with Busuu here:
Web: bit.ly/elysse_busuu
Mobile: bit.ly/elysse_busuu_app
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ko-fi.com/elyssespeaks
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🐥 twitter:
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💌 about me
Hellooo! My name is Elysse, I’m from the USA and I study digital media production. I have an undying passion for language learning and all the beautiful experiences it has brought into my life ♥️ I hope you enjoy my videos about my journey in language learning, as well as diaries about my travels and life as a curious tree-climber.
💌 FAQ
How old are you?:
20 years old
What languages do you speak/sign?:
English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, American Sign Language, and now Mandarin Chinese (all at varying levels!)
Where do you live?:
The United States, in the south.
#busuu #appreview #learngerman
i split my 20 tabs between 3 windows to feel better about myself lmao
This is adaptation man
I just installed 64gb of memory. Now I can have 500 chrome tabs.
OneTab!
The apps that I like the most: free apps 😂
Same 🤣
Nothing is free 🥺
@@kshemendragourav3746 yeah I payed for CZcams
@@kshemendragourav3746 this is not right
You can just download bussu mod hacked from google....
@@kshemendragourav3746 yeah i payed for water
I tried it like a year ago, it was one of the first resources i used when i started learning german. I reached the B2 level on the app, eve though it is not a real B2 it really founded my basis to keep learning by other media, especially on grammar it is very well explained. It is a grat app, y really recommend it too even more if you are starting with german.
btw love your videos elysse, saludos de argentina reyna.
yeah i feel like there’s a bit of a disconnect with the levels maybe. the placement test was kind short! i’m glad you liked it though.
Can you speak german now? Or atleast good german from the app?
Did u test your b2 level what level are u just by using this app ?
Hey Elysse! I started using the premium version of Busuu two weeks ago (for German). All of my exercises have gotten corrections so far. Still, you are right. It does take longer to get corrections because it seems less native German speakers are using the app in comparison to Spanish, English, or Brazilian Portuguese native speakers. Something I found helpful is using the social tab to find exercises done by German natives who are learning Spanish or English. I correct those and add them as friends. Once you have them as friends, you have the option of choosing up to five people on your list to correct your exercise. They have been correcting mine when I send the request, or they return the favor once I've corrected them. It's working so I just keep adding new native German speakers to my friend list lmao 😂
This is so helpful, thanks for the tip! Gonna make that step this week.
@@elyssespeaks I'm glad! Good luck! I'm actually really enjoying the app so far. There are a few little changes that could help, but overall, I think it's pretty good! I had been looking for something like this where there are short lessons, exercises, and a community interaction/corrections section all in one because I used to use a similar website called Livemocha back in the day when I was learning Portuguese, but it got bought out by Rosetta Stone, and they shut it down -__-
3:20-3:24 is so me ! I never watch videos I put in my "watch later" playlist 😭🤦♂️
just preaching the truUuUuth!!!
And when I do go back to watch them, half have been removed from CZcams 😂
At first I thought you're German because you talked so goood!
that's so sweet, thank you!
Hello Elysse, i just wanted to thank you for inspiring me to start learning German! 💖
I have been using Busuu for my Spanish and Japanese for a while now. It's definitely one of my favorite apps to use. I love the actual roadmap they give you to track your progress/level. I just hope that they add more languages to it (Especially Swedish!!). ❤️
Yes it’s so helpful!! and they already have such a wide range but i definitely hope they open it more
Do you recommend Busuu for Japanese?
I have been using Busuu to learn German for around a month or so now, German is the first language I'm learning and Busuu is one of the primary things I'm using.
I'm currently aiming for the A1 test but have already noticed a few things that bug me about this app, One of them being the league and leaderboard system, I'm jumping between my phone and computer at the moment and I'm not so focused on completing with other users to get into a better leaderboard. But, the mobile app is based on a point system where as the website is based on a timed daily goal which I much prefer! to add annoyance, anything I do on the website (which is the same lessons as the app) doesn't count towards my goal on the App!
You can also cheat the goal on the app. By re-doing lessons you get given 15 points for each part completed instead of 5, this isn't something I want to do as I'm only going over lessons in which I feel I'm not 100% on.
Another thing that bugs me is that once you get a question wrong twice, it's gone, it doesn't force you to get the answer correct and I often just forget what I did wrong because the app is already forcing me to move on.
Ok rant over, i just thought i would voice my thoughts, if anyone is looking into getting busuu i do recommend it, it's helped me soooo much but be aware of the few tiny annoying things I've encountered
Great video btw!
Oh wow! I think i haven’t been so diligent about actually completing the goal, so i hadn’t noticed. I can see how that can irk 😅
Yo Alex have you still been using this app , and have you improved any since then ?
@@dirtybubble557 to be honest i have no been using it much lately mainly due to returning to work and having less time to practice. Most of my german practice is mainly listening now.
Although, I would say that Busuu did help me progress a lot more than duolingo and random youtube videos did. Their course is really nicely laid out and they add to it every couple of weeks giving you more stuff to learn. Their vocab study is also very useful too.
Hope this helped :)
I thought you looked familiar, but then I realized we were in German class with Frau together. It's been a couple of years! Hope everything's going well for you
AWWW BEST COMMENT we must have suffered together through all that :D hope you’re sticking with it too
@@elyssespeaks I didn't get to for the first few semesters of college but I'll be taking more German classes in January. I at least want to be good at German by the end of college. Possibly Russian as well, but we'll see :p as intense as Frau's class was, it was pretty fun and I kind of miss it lol
I loved this video! I’ve been really curious about Busuu but your video was really clear as to how it works. Time to explore 👀
Thank you Ophelia!! i wish i could’ve used it longer to cover all the possible bases but i didn’t want this video to be a marathon hahaha. good luck on ur exploration :D
I am cureently using Busuu and actually it really helps but ofcourse you have to spend effort like in every field. But if you really comply with the exercises you really get improved
I've been using it for Portuguese since May and I'm just about to complete the course :) Overall, it helped me a lot. Even the community feature worked perfectly for me - I always received plenty of answers within minutes. And I found it to be very motivating since Brazilians are always so supportive. However, I also write all the lessons down and use the "review" section religiously to memorize all the phrases. If anyone is thinking of using it for Brazilian Portuguese, I'd recommend it :)
Brazilians are all really helpful, I think they’re usually very flattered that people are learning PT! And there’s so many of them so that explains why you get answers so fast hahaha.
Do they have European Portuguese?
@@Katjjjes no, unfortunately not, only Brazilian.
@@leobitencourt4719 Muito bem! 😊 Agora já faz quase 3 anos que eu falo e na verdade acho que uso mais o português que a minha língua materna. Uso todo dia e ainda amo o idioma.
Ah, que fofa 🥰
OMG dein Deutsch ist soooo gut geworden!! 😍 Wow. Du kannst wirklich stolz auf dich sein!
wow muchas gracias por esto, Elysse! estoy tratando de aprender español ahora y es mi primer idioma nueva después del inglés. solo lo he estudio para seis meses (en serio)y he estado buscando buenos recursos. No conocí Busuu hasta tu video y lo acabo de prober y me gusta mucho! creo que voy a mantenerlo :)
Gracias por verlo Bretta 🤗 mucha suerte con tu español, ya escribes muy bien! Un abrazo :)
Idioma nuevo*. Idioma es un sustantivo masculino, aunque termine en "a" :)
Always very interesting (and amusing...you're hilarious) content. Love the German-focused videos 👍 Danke!
Aww I'm so glad you like them, I love doing language-specific videos! Thanks for watching
I've been using Busuu this summer on a recc' from an English teacher... but recently switched back to Duolingo because of the stories. I love that Busuu gives learners a structured study plan. :) Btw, I'm learning German & Spanish tooooo!
i didn't know about duolingo's stories :0 that seems like a fun feature, and use of multiple apps is normal. and thats awesome!
@@elyssespeaks yaaass, someone was like "hey these duo lingo stories are wild lol" so ofc i had to check it out. They're short but have funny twists 😅 It'd be a cool job to have anyway
I'm from Austria and speak German fluently and you speak it really good like wow
its so nice to have this review of the app, because im always stressed about the paid plans of language learning apps. and since im native german its cool to see how effective this app alone teaches a language.
also your accent and pronaunciation is very good, if you made a whole video talking in german i would have thought you are native, ok amybe not native but like someone who moved here when they where a teen and went to highschool here.
hahaha thanks so much! i'm glad you liked the vid.
I lost it when you started dancing. Hoody dancing is something I never knew I needed.
I really like the idea of all of these common app features in general put together in one! How do you feel the free version compares to the premium version?
Also you totally pulled memories of middle school Abigail trying to learn languages online out of the deep recesses of my mind with that old busuu logo
OMG yeah when i saw the logo again i legit winced... but i feel like the free version is great because from what i've seen they don't lock any material, just certain kinds of exercises. if all you want is material then the material is great :O
I started German on Busuu this week! But Busuu and Mango Languages are good together.
I haven't studied German in a number of years but my experience was pretty similar in terms of getting corrections from native speakers. You need to be patient. Studying Japanese and Chinese I haven't had that issue.
I love it when you smile :)
Eu adoro quando você sorri :)
Apps complicate a lot and confuse
Apps complicam muito e confudem
There are very formal words and phrases not often used in conversations
Obrigada
Learning how to use commas in German is actually really intuitive. There are a lot of cases when one should use a comma, but once you memorize them, it’s a walk through the park. Punctuation is the only thing that I got right writing exams in German class 😭
Honestly i feel like you just have to pick it up by copying what others do hahaha you’ll go crazy trying to memorize the cases in which you use it!
Dont worry,even as a german i dont know when to use commas😂😂😂😂
This is something I find really weird as it’s kind of the opposite of my native language (Portuguese) 😂 I normally don’t bother with commas for now, but if I try to I just think of the places where I would never put one 😅
In this video you can see Elysse in every possible way, fancy, nerd, weekend-outfit and tired. 😂 Greeeat video btw as always! Your voice is kinda calming and it's really catchy to keep on listening and watching the video lol. Saludos desde México!
Best comment hahaha! Yeah i’ve never really done a video like this except for my Italian dabbling one, maybe I should do a day in the life type video soon 🤔 and thank you, i’m glad you don’t get tired of listening to me talk 😹
@@elyssespeaks HAHAHA I just said the truth. And that would be rlly cool, you're welcome 🤣💓
I used that for like 3 months as a starter for Russian.
I loved it.
The prices raised up a lot, but I had a great deal when I was started using it and it really worth it.
When I got good bases in Russian, I stopped using it to have a different studying approach, but if I learn another language some day, I could definitely use it again to begin.
If you like it enough i guess it’s worth the commitment!
I´ve started learning german 1 year ago on Duolingo, but it wasn´t helping me at all. Like, they teach first animals and food before teaching you how to say things like "Wie heißt du?" or "Wie geht´s dir?" and that doesn´t make a lot of sense. So I discovered Busuu and bought the premium version, and I think it´s reeeeally worth it. I´ve been doing it for about 8 months now and I am currently going to unit B1. I mean, I consider myself an A1 person in speaking, but I can already understand A2/B1 senteses by reading, and that is really an evolution for me, because as an 14 years old brazilian girl I didn´t even know how to say hello in german when I started 😂
In conlusion, I really like Busuu and it is definitely helping me to build a base for my german, and now that I know how the app works, I think the "weakest" parts of it are the grammar and the speaking, so these are the topics that you have to study by other means also to consolidate better.
Great video Elysse! ^^
Meu deus descobri agora que vc também fala português, podia ter escrito em PT hahahha Te adoroooo, minha meta falar alemão igual tu fala
Hey that’s good, when you’re comfortable you might want to try italki sessions with native speakers or using the busuu tutor options. I currently use Italki and busuu, and they both are super helpful. I record my italki video sessions then play them back later to learn from my mistakes.
@@brandonjackson6696 thanks for the tip :)
Oh wow this is cool! Definitely going to check it out for bringing my German to the next level :)
Sick!! i’m so happy to hear it :)
I love busuu
Thanks for the review!
A little problem compared to Duolingo - there are only popular languages, and you cannot find there the less popular ones (Latin, Hebrew, Greek, etc.)
Also, Duolingo already added conversation lessons (to some languages) so Busuu doesn't have this advantage anymore
I get that. Yeah, it’s a little bit more developed than Busuu, but i feel like Busuu is so much more involved in making the content digestible whereas Duolingo is kinda like just throwing random sentences? i dunno hahaha.
@@elyssespeaks you're right! Doulingo is very random compared to bussu
By the time I completed the first basics tree on doulingo learning only frau,mann,madchen,wasser,brot
I had already known how to say hi, how are you and 40 more words on bussu plus it has a better design and alot easier to use also you don't get bored doing excirces.
Hey I’m also learning German, do you know where I could get any books for it/ any book suggestions? Apps just aren’t doing it for me anymore.
Your videos are very motivating
I can speak English Spanish and French
Right now I am learning Polish , one of the hardest languages ever but I love it so I won't give up on it 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱Pozdrawiam dla wszystkich polaków
Hell yes, don’t give up! :D
I'm Polish and I am so happy you are learning our language 😁 keep going!
@@agatatomala3454 dziękuję ci bardzo)
Just want to send you love ❤️ and i hope your mom is recovering fast
Thank you, i appreciate this so much
when you explained your tabs it was like listening to myself talk
hey elysse, a question- not to do with busuu, but quizlet- is quizlet pro worth it, if you use the paid version?
I don't use the paid version of Quizlet, so I can't speak on its premium features :( i'm sorry!
Do you have a video about learning German for beginners? I'm just starting out, and it would be nice to hear about your experience with learning German. By the way, are you an American?
Waiting ❤️
instrumental music>>>>
Busuu just dont want to work with me
The app crashes after some minutes os use
And the site wont load
Its pretty strange
I tried two times with a month of difference
i have never used this app before but i want to know if Bussu has the same fonctionnality as Duolinguo the same programs ...
Which is your native language and how many language do you know or are you learning?
I'm italian and I already know english and french at a good level, and I've been learning german since 1 year
English, and my other languages are ES/FR/PT/DE/ASL. congrats on your german learning!
To me you're C3 in German. I wasn't expecting "Take on me" on this video, gut gemacht Elyssinha
C3 KKKK desde uma perspetiva estrangeira sim, e Take On Me deveria ser em todos os vídeos meus
Busuu seemed great from the free part of the course :)
Not me totally loving the Duolingo shade
I think I love her ,🤧😭😭
I love Busuu! I use the website, not the phone app. I use it for Spanish. It is definitely geared for European (Spain) spanish instead of Latin American.
Hace cuántos años/meses lo usas?
Ah wow I didn’t know that about the spanish, but it makes sense. I think i prefer desktop as well!
@@hallihallo3016 4 meses. It’s not the only thing I use.
I used busuu around 8-10 years ago. It was when they didnt have many languages and every language was a little tree that gets bigger when you studying.
And everything was free back then. I stopped when you had to pay cuz i was young and didnt had any money
that's a really cute idea, i remember it! oh man ;(
Hi elysse! Any idea of the German certificate we earn from Busuu is honoured esp in Embassy or finding a job in Germany?
Not too bad hehe! Great video!
You inspired me to take up French again which I had learned from kindergarten to 5th grade and pretty much completely forgot once I switched to Spanish. So thank you. Amazing video as always, keep up the quality content!
awww that’s amazing! i’m glad you got back into it, i’m delving back into french next year. thank you for the kind words!
Ugh I love your CZcams 😂😂😂
Schon am Anfang gibt es in der App ein Fehler, oder? Sollte "sich am Dienstag treffen" sein, würde ich sagen. Das Wort "am" fehlt. Aber vielleicht geht beides, kann jemand hier mir das bitte erklären?
Elysee is so cool. I have never met her but I imagine she's cool
man i hope i'm cool
11:06 Good try! Please also avoid Nestlé, folks.
I really relate to you
Sounds like duolingo, tandem and italki in one.
right? more comprehensive than a lot of lang learning apps i’ve seen.
i've used duolingo in the past and i can say from my experience that i've had a better time with busuu than with duolingo.
Guys actually you can make a group tab and color them
Currently learning french on both Busuu and Duolingo 😌
I loved this videoo🥰🥰 and i think my next language is gonna be german
I just started and I'm loving it!
i would love to help you with german / correct your texts haha, im currently learning spanish by myself and just discovered busuu as well :)
love it since 2014
So, I am clueless about how to study German. Right now, I am at beginner duolingo and I am 1% at finishing Busuu. I am studying German at school and I am A1. Can anyone help me find a way to go about studying ? (preferably free or cheap). Any help would be greatly appreciated! ( My native language(s) are English and Greek)
Elysse: Stop looking at me
Me: 👀
Staaaahp
I used it for a while and there were two main issues with it:
1) I'd submit a paragraph or two for an answer and never got a single comment or rating even after several months, my account was verified with a picture, I corrected maybe 400 english submissions, it's not like I wasn't active; maybe it's because I was a beginner but still considering I was paying and it's their biggest selling point, was a let down.
2) The work plan doesn't do a great job of picking up where you leave off; if you don't use it for a week it still assumes you remembered everything like it was yesterday. That and when new courses are added your overall percentage decreased, I was at 45% of the way to complete their A1 ranking and one day it dropped to 28% it was super demotivating and I ultimately cancelled my subscription.
I really wanted to like their app but it was just too rigid for me, I switched to using anki which has been serving me well ever since
Maybe you were writing too much? I used to use HelloTalk, which had a community corrections feature, and I remember it being hard to get good corrections for posts longer than a couple sentences
wow das ist so beeindruckend, dass du in 7 tagen deutsch gelernt hast??? Beeindruckend
Ich war kein Anfänger! Haha also in diesem Video war ich am B2 vllt
GOOD MORNG
Hi, I think learning German is not that difficult as I know it's very easy😊
Deine Aussprache ist echt gut :)
danke sehrrr!
@@elyssespeaks büdde 😛
I'm trying to learn Polish on Busuu.
Acabei de ter aula com um tutor. Foi bem legal
Hi, Elysse, my talented pretty friend. for nearly 6 months i've been learning German language. you're the best, multilingual. with a kiss.
congrats! youre doing great❤
@@sedm9508 thanks. you can be my esteemed teacher & beloved friend if you accept. love you.
What camara are you using for this vídeo?
Sony a6400 with a 18-135mm lens. :)
I've been using this app for some months and it was helping me a lot to start to learn english. I am brazilian, more brazilians here??
Aqui estou eu
Não sou brasileira mas estou estudando português kkk
@@marie-eve8863 que legal! de onde Vc é?
@@leotutone da Bélgica parte flamengo
@@marie-eve8863 e sua língua materna é francês ou holandês?
I would just like to say that you are so swaggy, Elysse
Damn i am a german native my self. Your pronounciations is extremly good
Hi. I want study German and communicate on this language. Could you help me in it?
man how are you so cool
For how long have you been studying German so far?
I started when I was 15 in high school but I only started taking my studies seriously in the past year!
Du kannst so krass gut Deutsch reden.. Respekt, dass du eine schwere Sprache gut beherschst😃👍
Danke!!
@@elyssespeaks Gerne. Wenn du gerne mal ein Deutsch-Quiz machen möchtest, melde dich bei mir😉
Totally judging you for your number of tabs, even more so after you defended yourself, hahahaha, love the video!
heyyyy let me live HAHAHA thank you for watching!!
Hey Elysse - nice work on the video!
I also think they are great for French, German, Italian, Spanish and maybe a few others... However when my review of them (which was glowing) started getting lots of views, a lot of people commented that Japanese, Russian, Chinese and Arabic were not so good. I used Arabic for about 3 days and I agree... it teaches a strange mix of MSA and then a kind of made up Arabic that isn't even MSA, plus they assume you know the alphabet already.
For Japanese and Russian I had literally dozens of comments saying that it was not good, and not really a single positive one.
So yeah basically I had made the mistake of expanding my experience from French out to all 12 languages, and it seems like it's only the case for the "Big Euro 4", and maybe a few others like Turkish and Polish... but unfortunately not for all of them.
Hey Lamont, thanks! :D
That's disappointing to hear, eurocentrism is a repeat offender in a lot of language courses/apps and I wish it would change :/ the resources to do it are definitely there. I plan on getting into Turkish next year so maybe I'll have a chance to see what it's like out of those confines.
Parece um bom app, vou experimentar. Mas essa voz metálica é meio sinistra. Não vou usa-lo quando estiver sozinho.
😹 ameaçador né?
I just wanted to point out that at 0:52 you made the sign for ‘dating’ in ASL lollll
I subconsciously sign stuff all the time it's weird to me
What is ASL sign?
@@guzzar100 american sign language i think
Сделай пожалуйста русские субтитры!!! 💞 🥺 Буду очень рада😇
I used it for french and took all the lessons they had, but I definitely didn’t reach fluency with it. I’ve had to supplement by learning with quizlet sets and reading in order to keep progressing.
of course, i think it’s very difficult to just rely on an app for language learning. i think they’re most effective when combined with other study efforts :)
7:44 you said "bueno" in Spanish jajajaj
Hi guys l live in Eygpt and l wanna ask you a question
" the language you study in the school, can you speak it ?"
P.s l am 18 years old
yes
Learning Is Everything
Firstly, WHY YOU SO PRETTY 🥺
Second, love Busuu. Def tops all apps
for me. Agree with you that it’s a good stepping stone when you don’t know where to start. Like me with Arabic. Also they advanced me so far when I took the Spanish test so they clearly know what’s up 😎
Third, how will we be friends now that you’re not on insta? I only use Twitter to laugh at trump supports. HelloTalk?
🥺 no UR PRETTIER!! and ikkk i loved it for that purpose i feel like it got me back on track! and 😭 i don’t know but i’m so active on twitter so u gotta come back just for me
How the arabic version of Busuu?
@@totopopo it’s pretty good now that I’ve realized you can switch between Arabic script and English spelling. Lots of useful phrases to get started with without feeling too intimidating
Grüße an dich aus Stuttgart 😀Deutschland ❤️👏🏼
Just watching a regular CZcams video and then boom is that Harry Potter?
man what HAHA
I dont know why i searched for german videos...i am german...i dont need to learn it 😂but whatever,life in 2020 😂
felt that
@@elyssespeaks but ...your german is pretty good. 👍🏻
Maybe you wanted to see how foreigners learn your mother tongue or watch our struggle LOL!
@@AmesWickKittySniper01 well...i am more curious as to why people like to learn it when theres so much talk that german is supposed to be a loud and aggressive language 🤣
@@vintagenovember :3 My interest was sparked when I read a book called "When the Germans came" , it's about the channel island occupation. The book had some German in it besides funny stories, they had a strange relationship with the islanders and the English living there.
I cannot say why anyone else would? lol Well it does sound aggressive if it's put on🤣 Someone said the German word for foot and the way he was saying it sounded so angry
You're beautiul
Warst du schon mal in Deutschland? Ich will unbedingt mal in die USA . Ich denke, ihr lebt einfach viel chilliger, als wir 🥰
Ja schon! Ich war letztes Jahr da, in Dezember. Bin eine Woche in Koln geblieben. :) Komm mal vorbei!
Übrigens, „Service“ ist in der Tat ein Anglizismus. So the pronunciation is more or less like in English
3:42 Which ones, and why? Your German audience may love this shit!
I smell a collaboration with Wanted Adventure (unaffiliated, yet still shameless promotion) brewing up in the distant future. :-P
12:15 You're welcome.
elysse e 20 abas abertas. não julgo porque faço igual heueheu
I made only 2 or 3 mistakes and got placed in b1 :/