Halloween around the world

Halloween (also spelt Hallowe’en or known as All Hallows’ Eve) is recognised every year on 31 October in lots of countries around the world. Find out more about Halloween with busuu! How did Halloween start? Many people believe that Halloween originally developed from festivals in western Europe, celebrating either harvests or the dead. It might […]

busuu Facebook sweepstake – win an iPhone 5s

Win a brand new iPhone 5s, incl. all busuu mobile apps! The busuu language-learning apps to connect learners with native speakers worldwide are now downloaded an average of 25,000 times a day, enabling our users to learn on the go – wherever they are and whenever they want! We are now giving one lucky winner the […]

Language is more than words – Part 2

In part 1, we looked at the different ways of greeting others across the world. Now let’s look at more language without words! Darwin claimed that humans have six universal facial expressions to communicate happiness, sadness, surprise, fear, disgust, and anger. But is that really true? Recent research by Glasgow University has actually shown that […]

World of Work: Marly de Gomez

Learning a language can help you move on in your career or find new opportunities. In our ‘World of Work’ series, we speak to people who use languages every day in their job. In our first post, we spoke to Daniel, a hotel reception manager from Spain. Let’s meet Marly de Gomez from Venezuela Hi Marly! […]