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Planning a trip? Get the most out of your holiday with our Travel Course!

We’re approaching holiday season, the perfect time to brush up on your language skills with our interactive Travel Course and get ready to enjoy your adventures abroad!

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Get around with ease by learning all the essential travelling vocabulary:

  • Basic Expressions
  • Transportation
  • Moving around
  • Money, shopping and eating
  • Planning and accommodation

Each of these categories includes 3 learning units. Plus, you get our special survival guide, a very useful PDF containing survival phrases to carry around while exploring your holiday destination!

Brush up on your essential holiday phrases now with our Travel Course for only €14.99! Get it now!

Premium Members automatically have free access to both the online version and the mobile app version of the Travel Course. Become a Premium Member now!

We hope you have lots of fun preparing for your trip with our Travel Course - we’re sure it will get you into the holiday spirit!

Why not tweet us from your holiday destination, using the hashtag #busuuholiday.

We look forward to hearing about your holiday adventures!

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Download our free mobile apps and learn a language on the go!

Learn on the go and make every minute count!

It just takes a few minutes a day to brush up on your language skills and your journey to work, school or college is the perfect opportunity.

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Our mobile apps for learning languages can be used even when you don’t have an internet connection and they are packed with useful, fun features.

  • More than 3,000 words and phrases across 150 topics
  • Beginner (A1) to upper intermediate (B2) learning materials
  • Dialogues and interactive tests to check your progress

The free versions of our apps for iOS and Android include 20 complete learning units.

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Don’t forget that as a Premium Member you have access to the full app content at no extra cost! Upgrade to Premium now!

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Help your child get a head start in Spanish!

Our ‘Kids learn English with busuu‘ iPad app has been so successful – with over 200,000 downloads so far – that we are launching a brand new version to teach Spanish! ‘Kids learn Spanish with busuu‘ is also specially developed just for children aged 4-7 years.

Like ‘Kids learn English with busuu‘, ‘Kids learn Spanish with busuu‘ is the most advanced, interactive and easy-to-use app available on the market. Our educational experts designed the carefully structured course to help your child learn 150 Spanish words in an enjoyable and stimulating way.

It’s perfect for firing up their interest in languages, helping them to make fast progress and teaching them useful vocabulary that they can use with confidence in real life. So next time you’re on holiday in a Spanish-speaking country, they can order their own ‘helado‘ (ice-cream)!

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An effective, fun way to learn Spanish

We developed ‘Kids learn Spanish with busuu‘ to make the most of all the iPad’s special features, so that your child will enjoy learning and want to continue.

  • The course is based on a proven, five-step approach that engages, teaches, tests, rewards and motivates children.
  • It has a magical garden that grows each time your child learns, encouraging them to carry on and allowing you to easily monitor their progress.
  • There are high-quality animal illustrations and animated graphics that come to life on the iPad’s Retina display, for mental and visual stimulation.
  • The app’s advanced user interface takes advantage of the iPad’s intuitive touch screen, for a truly interactive experience.
  • Limited text and clear, self-explanatory exercises mean it’s perfect for your child to complete alone and keep on learning, wherever they are.

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Try it out – download a free basic version!

‘Kids learn Spanish with busuu‘ has 30 learning units covering a range of topics, including colours, numbers, pets, food and transport. You can download a free basic version, containing three learning units, from the iTunes app store. You can then upgrade to the full app for 8.99€ or buy learning units in bundles of three for 1.79€.

What do you think of ‘Kids learn Spanish with busuu‘? Did you try ‘Kids learn English with busuu‘ too? Share your thoughts below in the comments!

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15% discount and motivational tips for language learning

The holidays are almost over and this is the perfect time for brushing up on your language skills to get ahead with schoolwork or make your CV stand out!

To motivate you, we are offering a back-to-school promotion – enjoy a 15% discount on all our products until 15 September 2012!

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To get you in the mood, here are our busuu.com top 10 motivational tips!

  1. Set a goal – With My Goal your progress is monitored and you will receive personalised messages to give you a motivational boost when you need it most!
  2. Do a busuu Challenge – Motivate yourself and your friends to continue learning and challenge each other to finish 3 learning units within 24 hours.
  3. Be creative – Describe our daily updated pictures from National Geographic and discuss them with native speakers.
  4. Learn by playing – Check out the memory game on busuu.com and play by yourself or with others!
  5. Talk to native speakers – In the busuu-talk you’ll find lots of people who will help you achieve fluency in the language you are learning!
  6. Watch a video unit - Pick out an interesting topic and write a review about it. Your desire to express your opinion will give you extra motivation!
  7. Have a ‘foreign language’ day – Immerse yourself in the culture of the language you are learning: watch a foreign movie in the original language, listen to songs, or cook a typical foreign meal.
  8. Share your progress – Have you just set a goal or finished a learning unit? Be proud of your achievement and share it with your friends on Facebook or Twitter.
  9. Be brave – Everybody makes mistakes when learning a foreign language, so help out others by correcting their posts. They will do the same for you!

…and the best motivation to kick-start your language learning again:

  1. Our 15%-back-to-school discount! Take advantage of the 15% discount and become Premium Premium crown now!

It’s easy to apply the discount:

  1. Go to the order page.
  2. Choose the product you would like to buy.
  3. Copy and paste the code SEP2012 into the relevant box.

With our Premium MembershipPremium Member and our motivational tips you will get the most out of your busuu.com learning experience! Only until 15 September 2012!

Did we miss a motivational tip? Just add your own tips to our list!

 

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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!

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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!

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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!