Category Archives: What’s new on busuu.com?

Improvement and fixed issues regarding our website www.busuu.com

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Get new gifts for your language garden!

Make your language garden stand out with our fun gifts!

In the new busuu Shop, you can use your busuu-berries to buy lots of animated gifts for your garden. Or trade them for a discount on our Premium Membership !

Check out the busuu Shop now:

Access the busuu Shop by clicking on the new busuu-berry counter at the top of the page.
Choose a discount or a gift that you would like for your garden.
Confirm that you want to buy the item with your busuu-berries.

Once you have bought a gift, it’s immediately displayed in your garden. Hover over the new gift and discover how it interacts with your garden!

Get your personal gift now!

The busuu Shop is for everybody! However, Premium Members can choose from a much wider selection of gifts, in total 20 different animations. Check out the busuu Shop or upgrade to Premium now !

Get a discount with your busuu-berries:

Choose a discount in the busuu Shop.
Click on “Upgrade now!” to get to the subscription page and choose a product.
Copy the discount code displayed at the top of the page and use it on the following payment page.

Enjoy browsing the new busuu Shop and choosing a discount or a fun gift for your language garden!

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busuu.com apps reach 10 million downloads!

In less than two years, our apps for Android, iPhone and iPads have already been downloaded over 10 million times! And every day we register 20,000 new downloads!

This is really exciting news and we would like to thank you all for your active participation!

The apps are the perfect solution for on-the-go language learning, especially in summer. Improve your language skills with native speakers wherever you are, whether at the beach or on your way to work. Download the app now!

Each app includes interactive and audio-visual learning tools such as:

Vocabulary
Dialogues
Writing exercises
Interactive Tests

It also includes 20 free learning units. The complete courses can be purchased within the app. For Premium Members, the full content is activated automatically! Upgrade now!

Connect with over 18 million members using busuu.com online or via the app, by sending writing exercises to native speakers for correction. You can now also connect your app to Facebook to share your learning progress with your friends!

The app not only includes our regular courses from A1 to B2 but also our Travel Course! Get ready for your holidays with our busuu.com Apps and download your own version here!

The apps can be used without an Internet connection and can be synchronised with your online profile on busuu.com. They are available for English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Mandarin, Turkish and Polish.

So download your free app now and have fun learning languages with native speakers wherever you are!

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Learn Chinese and Japanese for free wherever you are!

We have just launched two new apps for iPhone and iPad, so you can now learn Chinese and Japanese for free on your mobile. Both apps are also available for Android.

Chinese is the most spoken language in the world and the mother tongue of one quarter of the global population (that is 1.34 billion people – incredible!). Japanese is the mother tongue of over 130 million people, which makes it the 10th most spoken language worldwide.

With the busuu.com apps for iOS and Android you can connect to Chinese and Japanese native speakers from the busuu.com community and send them exercises for correction! This way language learning is communicative and fun!

Best of all: Each app includes 20 free learning units! Full content can be purchased from inside the app. If you’re a Premium Member on busuu.com, the whole content of the apps will be automatically activated:

More than 3,000 words and key phrases in 150 different learning units covering everyday situations
Courses for Beginner to Upper Intermediate level (A1 to B2), in addition to our Travel Course
Comprehensive and audio-visual learning tools
Vocabulary training, dialogues, writing exercises and interactive tests
Works on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android – no internet connection required

In total you can now learn eleven languages while waiting for the bus or relaxing in the sun! Learn English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Chinese and Japanese on the go!

Of course, you can also earn busuu-berries and synchronise your progress with your online profile on busuu.com.

So start earning busuu-berries on the go by downloading your free app now!

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Check out our improved dialogues!

Practise your listening comprehension with our improved dialogues! We’ve added new functions that will help you understand the dialogues even better! If you’re a Premium Member you can now:

See the part that is being spoken in yellow
Pause the dialogue wherever you want
Repeat any sentence that you want to hear again

Whenever you open a dialogue, the audio will start automatically and the part that is being spoken will be highlighted in yellow, so you can follow the dialogue easily. We recommend you listen to the dialogue as a whole at first. If you then want to hear a specific sentence again, or listen to one sentence at a time, just use the forward and backward buttons to navigate through the dialogue. Try it out now!

Learn at your own pace by listening to each sentence as often as you wish or pausing the dialogue at any time. This way you can develop an ear for the language you are learning and you can also practise your pronunciation by listening to the sentences repeatedly and saying them out loud.

As usual, after listening to the dialogue, you will have to answer three short questions to show that you have understood the conversation. Test your listening comprehension now!

These new functions are part of the busuu.com Premium Membership.

Not a Premium Member yet? Upgrade now to learn languages more efficiently or have a look at the complete list of our Premium functions here!

Have fun with our improved dialogues!

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Get the new ‘super corrector’ badge for your busuu.com profile!

Making mistakes is an important part of learning languages and learning in general. When we correct them, we understand our error, we remember what to do next time and we don’t repeat the mistake.

That’s why you should help other people learning your language by correcting their exercises in a clear and constructive way.

Use the toolbar above the correction area to highlight any mistakes – for example, put them in bold or in a bright colour.
Explain why you’ve highlighted the word or phrase and suggest a better alternative.
Give the post’s author a tip to help him avoid making mistakes
Leave an encouraging note to the post’s author to help them stay motivated and continue learning!

And when you’ve done a good job by providing useful corrections, other members of the busuu.com community can give you a ‘thumbs up’! You could even win one of our new badges for your profile:

super corrector (more than 1,000 thumbs up)
very helpful corrector (500-999 thumbs up)
helpful corrector (50-499 thumbs up)

Plus, if at least 3 people give you a ‘thumbs up’, you will get 5 extra busuu-berries .

But be careful with your corrections, you can also receive a ‘thumbs down’ ! This means that your corrections need to improve.

So should you see this badge on your profile, just follow our tips on how to make helpful corrections and collect some more ‘thumbs up’. As soon as you have more ‘thumbs up’ than ‘thumbs down’, the badge will disappear and you’re on your way to becoming a super corrector .

Start correcting now to win lots of ‘thumbs up’ and become a super corrector in no time!

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