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Back to school promotion on busuu.com – 10% off on all our premium memberships!

Now that the holidays are almost over, it is the perfect time to start learning languages again with busuu.com!

To make your return to school, university or work easier, busuu.com is offering you a very special ‘Back to School’ promotion!

Until the end of September, you can enjoy a 10% discount on all of our Premium Memberships !

From just 8.99 EUR per month, you will get access to all of our award-winning Premium learning features, such as:

• audio for more than 3,000 key phrases
• audio for more than 150 dialogues
• access to more than 35 grammar units
• printable PDFs and podcasts for more than 150 learning units
• video units (updated every day) from sources such as CNN and Spanish National TV
• customisable tests, where you can choose the content, the type and number of questions
• free access to our popular travel course
• official busuu.com certificates for finishing the courses

And best of all, you will have access to these excellent Premium learning features for all the seven languages we offer on busuu.com, including our brand new Russian course we launched yesterday! That´s just 1.50 EUR per month for each language!

This offer  is only valid until the end of September – so hurry up and upgrade your account now to enjoy the full potential of our popular very effective language courses!

Learn to speak Russian for free with busuu.com!

Привет (that’s ‘hello’ in Russian)!

Spoken by more than 280 million people, Russian is the largest native language in Europe and the 8th most important language in the world. In addition, we received a lot of requests from our users to add this language to the courses we offer.

So, we’re very excited to launch our new Russian language course on busuu.com!

Learn Russian with free access to more than 150 audiovisual learning units across 4 different levels. In addition, you can  connect with thousands of Russian speakers from our rapidly growing community.

You want to learn Russian? This is how you start:

To start your free interactive Russian course, simply:

1. go to your settings page
2. add Russian as a language you want to learn
3. click on your new snowy Russian tree in your language garden to begin!

Start learning Russian with our free language course now!

If you are a premium user, you will also have immediate access to all of the new Russian course’s Premium features, such as audio dialogues and key phrases, PDFs, podcasts and much more!

So upgrade your account now to enjoy busuu.com’s full range of award-winning learning tools for seven different languages!

Test yourself with our Russian alphabet challenge!

Russian alphabet characters are not the same as the Latin alphabet. So, we have adapted our existing course structure and added a new Russian alphabet section.

Listen to the entire Russian alphabet and then test your skills with our fun Russian alphabet challenge!

Привет to all our Russian-speaking members!

We would also like to welcome all our Russian-speaking users to busuu.com – you can now use our website with a complete Russian interface! Just go to your settings page and change your interface language to ‘Russian’ or have a look at our new Russian frontpage http://www.busuu.com/ru.

До свидания (that’s ‘goodbye’) for now – we hope you enjoy trying out our new Russian course. Stay tuned for more important updates within the next few weeks!

Try out our new language learning game!

Imagine you could improve your language skills and challenge your busuu.com friends at the same time to see who is best at memorising vocabulary?

Believe it or not…it is now possible on busuu.com! If you want to see for yourself, check out our great new language learning game!

Playing this game is simple and fun: you play against one of your friends and try to match words from two different languages into pairs. The player who gets the most pairs right, wins the game and gets five tasty busuu-berries!

To access the game, you have two options:

• click on the new ‘Games’ tab within your language area. Then pick among the available players and send him or her an invitation to play by pressing the button.

• challenge another user directly by going on their profile and clicking on the new button .

Once the other user accepts the challenge, you will enter the game room and the game begins!

When it´s your turn, click on the cards on the left hand side and find the matching words or phrases in two different languages. But hurry because time is running! If you find the right pair, the cards will flip and you will receive a point.

Whoever has the most points when all cards are turned, wins the game and receives five juicy busuu-berries!

Will you be the new language game champion on busuu.com?

We are sure you will love our new language learning game and are looking forward to your feedback!  Stay tuned for more exciting new features on busuu.com!

New PONS grammar guides now available on busuu.com

busuu.com is exited to say that we have extended our existing partnership with the renowned publisher PONS! We now offer English grammar guides to our French and Italian speaking users.

The guides are completely online and fully integrated into our existing learning material. They contain detailed English grammar explanations in French and in Italian.

The grammar guides are available for only 9,99 EUR to basic users and 7,99 EUR if you are a Premium User .

Plus, if you buy these useful guides before the 15th of August, you will receive a 10% discount! Just use the code BZN3PS when buying them online!

This special promotion is also valid for all our PONS guides, including those available for German and Spanish speaking users. Find out more about the different guides we offer!

Make sure you check our blog regularly, because we will soon extend busuu.com with more useful language learning material!

New sounds for the vocabulary review

We are planning to update our existing sounds for the vocabulary review (some of you might have heard them already several thousand times! ;-) and therefore we would love to hear your opinion!

Please let us know which sounds you like best for the correct and the wrong answers! Thanks for your participation!