busuu.com collaborates with IE Business School

busuu.com is proud to announce a new partnership agreement with IE Business School based in Madrid. From today, all new MBA students will receive a six-month premium membership with busuu.com sponsored by IE Business School. This collaboration is a very important milestone for our young company! Since our launch in May 2008, busuu.com is now able to provide a high standard and awarded language learning system […]

Mission accomplished – Silbo Gomero is declared as cultural heritage by the UNESCO

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 accomplished! Remember, in September 2008, as part of our committment for having been selected […]

busuu.com wins the European Language Label for innovative projects in language learning

We are happy to announce that busuu.com has been awarded with the European Language Label! This prestigious award is co-ordinated by the European Commission and awarded every year by the individual Member States of the European Union. busuu.com has received this prize here in Spain. The award recognises “new initiatives in the field of teaching and […]

busuu.com at the E-Teachers conference about Communities and the Power of Crowdsourcing

Last week we had the pleasure to be invited by Kirsten Winkler, one of the leading bloggers and opinion leaders of this newly born online language learning industry, to present our ideas about Communities and the  Power of Crowdsourcing within a web conference. A part from busuu.com, the founders of other great websites like Languages Out There,  Wiziq and Italki also shared their […]

Blog and video contest

Our “busuu.com story contest” is now over.  A lot of people sent us funny stories, posted nice entries about language learning on their blog or even uploaded amazing videos about busuu.com on YouTube! It was impressive to see a lot of people from our language learning community participating in this contest. Just to name a […]

Tips to learn a new language online (part3)

Here is the third installment of our blog series on language learning tips. 3. Practice language actively Whenever possible, speak the language aloud rather than reciting it silently to yourself. In doing this you can gain confidence in you pronounciation and in your language skills. Say vocabulary words out loud e.g. while doing a busuu.com […]

busuu.com named as AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner!

It’s a pleasure to announce that busuu.com has been named as AlwaysON Global 250 Winner! The AO Global 250 list is elaborated every year and represents the best of emerging innovators and disrupters from all the technology sectors. In their own words: “With the 2009 AO 250, we sought to find the companies upon which […]

busuu.com nominated for the European TechCrunch Awards – please vote for us!

It´s a pleasure to announce that busuu.com has been nominated twice for Europe´s most important Start-Up competition – the European Tech Crunch Awards! We have been nominated in two different categories: Best Bootstrapped Start-Up (meaning that we have not received any big external financing so far) Best Web Application Now we need your support – […]

busuu.com wins a Silver Lion in Cannes!

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 was the amazing campaign to “Rescue the Silbo Gomero” for which we won […]

busuu.com widgets for your blog or website

Do you have a blog or your own website? Then you should get the brand new busuu.com widget completely free! This tool offers your readers a new set of flashcards for language learning every day. The flashcard widget comes with sound and photos and is a great language learning tool for your blog or website. You […]