A Big Thank You from Cameroon

As you can see from the images, there’s a brand new classroom at the CAPEC school in Cameroon. And we’re very proud to say it was the busuu community that made it possible. Last December, every busuu-berry earned increased the amount that we donated to the charity. And we did a great job in raising […]

Weather idioms

What’s the weather like where you are? Us humans seem to be obsessed with the weather! It’s a common way to start a conversation, a familiar thing to complain about when it’s bad and one of our favourite things to celebrate when it’s going our way. In this post, as we move into a new […]

Get your carnival photos in & win!

Last chance to get carnival crazy and win! You’ve really shown us how your country and culture carnivals. You’ve made us laugh, choke on our tea, even hide behind our desks with all your crazy carnival photos! If you haven’t shown us what you’ve got yet, there’s still one week left to share your photos […]

Meet the team: Jonathan

We are back! In our last ‘Meet the team’ blog post we introduced you to the smiley Maria. This time we introduce you to Jonathan, most commonly called Jo by all of us here at the busuu office. Jo is a Product Manager for English and is extremely interested in how people learn languages. This weekend […]

Be inspired to learn by these multilingual women

International Women’s Day (8 March 2014) recognises the achievements of women worldwide. To celebrate, we want to highlight a few benefits of learning a language, supported by examples of female polyglots to inspire you! Reach more people, help create change Speaking other languages means you can communicate with more people. You could help raise awareness […]