With Christmas out of the way we now have time to get ready for the next big event, New Year’s Eve!
We at busuu.com are extremly excited and curious about what the new year will bring!
To get you ready and prepared for New Year’s Eve, we have just published our New Year’s Eve unit, packed with words to enable you to celebrate in the language you are learning!
And of course, if you are a Premium Member, you will have access to even more great features, such as a podcast!
busuu.com has always upheld great missions such as saving endangered languages, or recently fighting against social exclusion. This is why busuu.com is participating in a European project to help the social integration of immigrants in the European society. busuu.com is one of the 14 partners from all over Europe working together to reduce the risks of social exclusion and ensure the bridging of cultural differences.
Immigrants represent a substantial part of the European information society. In 2005, 1.8 million people or 85% of the European population growth immigrated from outside Europe. MASELTOV, which stands for Mobile Assistance for Social Inclusion and Empowerment of Immigrants with Persuasive Learning Technologies and Social Network Services, identifies the huge potential of mobile services for promoting integration and cultural diversity in Europe.
In fact, the project, with its interdisciplinary partners, aims at researching and developing new ICT instruments that evolve around and take advantage of what mobile phones can offer to facilitate and foster local community building, raising consciousness and knowledge for the bridging of cultural differences. MASELTOV with a representative application of most essential and beneficial information and learning services, such as ubiquitous language translation, navigation, administrative and emergency health services will enable a massive social impact on the future with respect to more cooperative, more successful integration of millions of migrants living with hundreds of millions cohabitating European citizens.
busuu.com and its partners in the education and technology fields will be developing the language learning aspect of this project. busuu.com will provide language learning on the go, knowing that it currently offers similar services with its mobile applications. The language learning content will be offered in a customized manner taking into account place, time and need.
We are very happy to be part of this extraordinary project and we are proud to play a positive role in creating cultural bridges with language learning.
We’re very excited to be in the finals of The Europas – the European Tech Startup Awards again!
Last year you have helped us win the category ‘Best Education, Recruitment, Media Startup’.
With your help, we can do it again this year!
Please vote for us and click on the Facebook Like icon underneath busuu.com.
Thank you so much for being part of our great community!
Wherever you are in the world, we hope you have fantastic holidays and get to spend them with your loved ones.
To prepare you for Christmas, we have just launched our special Christmas learning unit. You will be able to celebrate in a different language and send your Christmas wishes in the language you are learning! Check it out now!
It has been a busy, eventful year and we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for being part of busuu.com, the world’s largest language learning community!
Become a Premium Member in December and busuu.com will sponsor a week of school for a child in Cameroon.
Boost your learning and someone else’s at the same time!
For every Premium Membership bought between 1-31 December 2012, we will make a donation to the Cameroon Association for the Protection and Education of the Child (CAPEC). CAPEC will use the funds to provide school access to children.
All you have to do is upgrade – there is no extra charge. Upgrade now and help make a difference!
Together, we can do more!
We have also created a special Facebook app to help you easily tell your friends about our campaign. By subscribing, they will benefit from the busuu.com learning experience and help provide education to those who need it. Tell your friends!
Why have we chosen CAPEC? Our name comes from Busuu, which is an endangered language spoken by fewer than eight people in Cameroon. That’s why we decided to help a charity that supports children in the region. CAPEC is one of Cameroon’s leading child welfare organisations and we have been supporting it since 2009. CAPEC’s aim is to help children by giving them opportunities for a better life.
So why not upgrade now to improve your own language-learning progress with our award-winning Premium tools and help to boost opportunities through education in Africa too?
