Istriot, a language as beautiful as the Adriatic coast
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 Posted in Endangered languages, What's new on busuu.com? | No Comments »Welcome back to our blog for endangered languages! As promised, we are continuing our blog series on endangered languages, and this week we’re presenting Istriot! When we refer to Istriot we don’t just mean the beautiful region that extends from Venice over ...
The language Busuu
Thursday, November 11th, 2010 Posted in Language learning | 2 Comments »Did you know where the name of our website busuu.com comes from? Busuu is actually a language from Cameroon in Africa, spoken by only 8 people! It was first "discovered" by the French professor of linguistics Roland Breton in the year 1986. ...
Update: busuu.com collaborates with NGO in Cameroon
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 Posted in What's new on busuu.com? | 1 Comment »As you probably already know, in September 2009 we won the European Language Label for innovative projects in language learning. The award was compensated with 1,500 EUR, which we donated to the Cameroon Association for the Protection and Education of the Child. ...
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 ...
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 ...
