The Language Archive opens in Berlin
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011 Posted in Endangered languages, Language learning | 1 Comment »Great news for all language fans out there: This month, the Max Planck Institute has opened The Language Archive in Berlin, one of the largest linguistic archives in the world! We wish all the best to The Archive on its ...
Mission accomplished – Silbo Gomero is declared as cultural heritage by the UNESCO
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 Posted in Language learning, What's new on busuu.com? | 6 Comments »GREAT NEWS - the UNESCO yesterday officially declared the nearly extinct whistled language Silbo Gomero from the Spanish Canary Islands as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity! This means, that our campaign to rescue this nearly extinct whistled language has been successfully ...
busuu.com wins a Silver Lion in Cannes!
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 Posted in Language learning, Starting up a company | 4 Comments »busuu.com wins a Silver Lion in the International Advertising Festival in Cannes for our Silbo Gomero campaign. In October 2008 we contracted the Madrid agency La Despensa in order to launch a campaign to improve the awareness of our website. The outcome ...
UNESCO International Mother Language Day
Friday, February 20th, 2009 Posted in Language learning | 2 Comments »The tenth UNESCO International Mother Language Day will be celebrated on the 21st of February 2009. It provides us with an opportunity to recall the objective of this celebration which was the recognition of linguistic diversity and the importance of multilingual ...
Silbo Gomero
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in Language learning | No Comments »As we here at busuu.com are committed to the preservation of minority languages, we have decided to include a new section on the almost extinct language of Silbo Gomero on our website! Silbo Gomero, however, is not any ordinary language. ...
