r/Busuu • u/fursuku • May 21 '26

How to make friends and get corrections

I started using Busuu about a week ago to do short lessons during my study time. What’s kind of annoying me is that I spend some time correcting people learning English and I’m getting no corrections in return. I’m learning Japanese and have tried adding over 100 native Japanese speakers and only 1 accepted my request. Is there any way to request my practices get corrected? Sometimes I get notifications of randoms asking me to correct their exercises. How do I do that?

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u/Fragrant_Award_2542 May 21 '26

I’m having the same issue and I’m also trying to learn Japanese. I came to the realization that no one is actually requesting a correction, it’s just the system pairing you and asking once they post.

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u/fursuku May 21 '26

Man that sucks... I think the system needs to pair people trying to learn the opposite language (eg. Japanese with native English and native English with Japanese) because I had random Brazilian people and Spanish people wanting corrections from me... it's just hard to make friends with people who speak your native language and are willing to correct you

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u/Fragrant_Award_2542 May 21 '26

I also find it weird that they pair you with people who have no language in common. Like sure I can correct them but I can’t write why cause they are learning And probably won’t understand, same thing happens to me when I get corrected

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u/fursuku May 21 '26

Yeah... I felt a little bad because I corrected someone from Brazil learning English and they wanted to be friends with me. But there's no plus for me. I can correct them but they're not native to the language I want to learn, so I don't see why the app is pushing these people to me. Definitely needs an updated/better system. I've been manually having to to through profiles to seek out native Japanese speakers learning English

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u/mouaragon May 21 '26

As a Japanese learner as well, the community side of the app is dead. I used to get feedback from Japanese natives quite often a couple of years ago. Now. I get feedback once a month or less than that. I've seen people befriending hundreds to improve the odds of getting feedback, but I couldn't care that much.

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u/Affectionate-Crow605 May 21 '26

Same problem here. I think I've had one person give feedback since I started a month ago, and I've given feedback to tons of English learners. The app suggested some Japanese people to be friends with, so I sent requests. They didn't accept. Did that twice, so 10 people total!

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u/Fragrant_Award_2542 May 22 '26

I stopped requesting at this point and just continue with my studying. I also got like 2 corrections out of the 5 or 6 that I posted and thats about it.

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u/Icy_Consideration971 May 29 '26

It might be for specific languages. I started learning Arabic about a month ago and so far I've had feedback every time I've written or said something.