busuu.com @ LeWeb Paris

The busuu.com team has just come back from an inspiring visit to Le Web Paris – an internet conference in Paris hosted by Loic le Meur, a famous blogger, entrepreneur and founder of the video blogging website seesmic. During the conference, we were able to attend various highly interesting presentations from big corporations such as Google, Facebook, […]

Get your Official busuu.com Certificate!

From now on you will be awarded even more for your efforts on busuu.com.Users of busuu.com can already receive gifts for their language garden (for every 5 units you complete, you receive a gift). Now, after having completed 25 learning units, you will receive the official Silver busuu.com Certificate of Completion. And, not alone that. […]

Don’t be lost for words!

All language learners know how difficult it can be to strike up a conversation with someone in another language. For this reason the busuu.com team has decided to make life that little bit easier for our users. From now on, when you start a busuu-talk while doing a learning unit, you will find an item […]

busuu.com on Telemadrid

Yesterday we had an interview with the local Spanish TV channel Telemadrid which was then shown on the news. They did a very nice report about our website and also interviewed one of our Spanish users while using our site. It’s very rewarding to see different international media showing so much interest in our innovative project! Check out our […]

Now you can submit your written exercises to your busuu.com friends for correction!

On the continuing quest to improve the busuu.com functionality, the busy busuu.com programmers have come up with a novel idea in the writing section of the learning units. Now, having done your writing exercise, you have the possibility of sending your work to be corrected by a busuu.com friend! Just click on the “Submit and […]

New review types online

busuu.com was launched 5 months ago and, as you may have noticed, is continuously being changed and altered so that you get the best service and improve your language skills in the best possible way. busuu.com now has a new and improved review section. Our busy development team has been working like bees to produce […]

Silbo Gomero

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. There are no words and there is no written form! Silbo Gomero is an almost […]

The Linguists

thelinguists

You are probably aware that the name busuu derives from a little known Cameroonian language of the same name which is only spoken by 8 people based on an ethnological study conducted in the 1980´s. This name was chosen in the hope that one day busuu.com would not only be a platform for teaching and […]

New animated language garden online!

Sweating through the hot summer in Madrid has finally paid off….we are very happy to announce the launch of the new animated language garden!! The new language garden contains the following functions:   1. Let your trees grow! The more learning units you have finished and the more active you are within the community, the […]