Busuu differentiates through community features—native speakers correct your exercises. This social model creates significant user-generated content issues. McGraw Hill's acquisition added enterprise data practices to a consumer app, and terms grant broad rights to your contributions while limiting recourse for platform issues.
Corrections, writing exercises, and voice recordings you submit grant Busuu extensive usage rights. Your contributions help build the platform and train systems, but you receive no compensation.
Acquisition by McGraw Hill means your learning data may flow into educational publishing ecosystems. Consumer app data could inform institutional products and research.
Native speaker corrections are community-sourced, meaning quality varies and potentially inappropriate content could appear. Terms limit Busuu's liability for community content.
Speaking exercises require voice recordings. These recordings are retained and may be used for AI training, accent analysis, and product development.
Community corrections provide human feedback, potentially more valuable than automated grading for language production skills.
McGraw Hill backing means pedagogically-designed content aligned with language proficiency standards.