Tag Archives: mobile

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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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Interact with native speakers – wherever you are!

We’ve updated our Android, iPhone and iPad apps so that you can now interact with native speakers wherever you are – busuu.com is the first language learning community to offer this feature in an app!

Our updated apps include our popular writing exercises. So even on the move, you can:

complete writing exercises
ask native speakers to correct your exercises
correct their writing exercises too

Simply go to ‘My Corrections‘ in the menu and either choose an exercise to correct, see the exercises you have written or check the latest corrections of your writing exercises, done by native speakers of our community. Imagine getting a correction of your writing exercise from a native speaker while you’re on the bus! Download and try our free apps now!

The apps include 20 free learning units each. You can purchase the complete courses (A1-B2 and the Travel Course) from inside the app and get access to further vocabulary and grammar material. Learn languages on the go with our audiovisual learning content.

If you’re a Premium Member , the whole app content is activated for you automatically! Not a Premium Member yet? Check out the full list of our Premium functions or upgrade now!

The apps can be used without an internet connection and can be synchronised with your online profile on busuu.com.

So, whether you’re waiting for the bus or just relaxing in the sun, connect with over 15 million members from the busuu.com community, by sending writing exercises to native speakers for correction via our mobile app. With these apps language learning is becoming even more communicative and entertaining! Download your free app now!

Have fun with our updated mobile apps and enjoy learning languages with busuu.com, even on the go!

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Apps now included in Premium Membership!

Great news for all our mobile users! We just launched an update for our iPhone/iPad app. From now on, all units in our popular apps for iPhone/iPad are automatically activated if you are a Premium member . Of course the same is true of our app for Android devices, such as HTC, Samsung, Google Phone, LG and Motorola.

Synchronise the app with your online profile to earn busuu-berries and reach your Mybusuu goal, wherever you might be. The app includes over 3,000 words and key phrases with pictures and recordings to help you pronounce and memorise them. Learn languages easily with our vocabulary and dialogue exercises and test yourself with our interactive review at the end of each unit.

In addition to this, the iOS update automatically activates our Travel Course on your app! This course will help you learn essential words and expressions you need to know when travelling abroad. Download your app now!

Our apps have already been downloaded a total of over 6 million times. Don’t miss out on this perfect add-on for language learning and get your own app to learn languages on the go!

Not yet a Premium Member? Use our New Year’s 15% discount to upgrade your account and access all our Premium Functions , including the premium content of our apps. Until 31 January 2011, you can become a Premium Member from only 4,24€ per month!

This free app is available in the following languages:

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busuu.com launches Android apps for nine languages

Our popular iPhone apps have been downloaded more than 2 million times and many of you have been asking for applications for other devices, as well. Now, busuu.com apps are also available for Android phones!

We have launched nine new Android apps for devices like HTC, Samsung, Google Phone, LG and Motorola. Learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Polish and English on the go!

Download your FREE busuu.com Android app now!

Like our iPhone apps, each Android app:

has extensive vocabulary – over 3,000 words and key phrases
beginner and advanced intermediate levels (A1 – B2)
includes our audiovisual learning content consisting of pictures and sounds
can be used even without an Internet connection.

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 your phone by downloading your free Android app now!

We are sure you will have fun with our new Android app and hope you will enjoy learning languages with busuu.com, wherever you are!

busuu.com launches free Travel App for iPhone or iPad!

With everybody planning their holidays, busuu.com has just launched a must-have Travel App for your iPhone/iPad. Our new Travel App will help you find your way during your adventures abroad, be it exploring the big city or relaxing on the beach – and, best of all, it is completely free! Just download the Travel App in your iTunes App Store directly from your iPhone (including the new iOS4, optimized for Retina display), iPod Touch or iPad.

Our new Travel App will help you learn essential words and expressions you need to know when travelling abroad. The App is available for learning Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Polish and English.

Of course, you can also earn juicy busuu-berries while using our new Travel App! Simply synchronise the App with your online busuu.com profile and your new busuu-berries will be added automatically.

Complete audio-visual learning content

Just as our Apps for the regular courses which have been already downloaded by more than 2m people around the world, our Travel Application offers audio-visual learning content (including pictures and sounds) and can be used even without an Internet connection.

The busuu.com Travel App contains:

Survival Guide: This is a set of useful words and phrases for your holidays. You do not know how to order a glass of wine? Just look it up in your Survival Guide!
Vocabulary: As with our regular iPhone Apps, you can flip through key words and phrases. In addition, all learning content is supported by pictures and professional voice-overs.
Dialogue: You will have access to typical holiday dialogues spoken by native speakers as well as multiple choice questions to test your reading comprehension skills.
Interactive exercises: You can test yourself with our fun and varied reviews!
Mistakes overview: The application stores all of your test mistakes to help you focus on your weaknesses and progress much faster with your language learning.

The Travel App includes full access to 15 learning units which are divided into the following 5 courses: “Basic Expressions”, “Transportation”, “Moving Around”, “Money, Shopping and Eating” and “Planning and Accommodation”.

So, leave your dictionaries at home and improve your language skills on the way to your holiday destination by downloading our free Travel App now! You can also click on the pictures or follow the links below to download each iPhone application from the iTunes store FOR FREE: