Help us to save the language Busuu!

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As you know,  the name of our website busuu.com comes from the language Busuu from Cameroon in Africa, spoken by only 8 people. This language is declared by the UNESCO as “critically endangered”. So, we from busuu.com had to do something in order to save this language from its extinction! In summer 2010, we sent a film-crew […]

busuu.com gets a new home

As our little baby busuu.com is growing quickly, we moved last week to our new shiny offices right next to the beautiful Retiro Park in the heart of Madrid! Of course we inaugurated our new premises with an office warming party with all our friends and the whole busuu.com team! We all had a great […]

The language Busuu

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. According to his and more recent research, the language, with the ISO 639 […]

busuu.com enters into strategic partnership with leading language learning publisher Collins

We from busuu.com are very proud to announce that we have entered into a new strategic partnership with Collins, the world renowned British language reference publisher. Collins is the leading brand for bilingual dictionaries in the UK and Europe and known throughout the world for its innovative dictionaries and language learning materials. Collins was founded […]

busuu.com nominated as 'Best Website Application 2010' and 'Best Learning Start-Up 2010'

We are very proud to announce that busuu.com has been nominated twice for the highly prestigious TechCrunch Europe ‘The Europas Awards‘! TechCrunch is Europe´s most important and respected tech blog. We are very pleased about these nominations, especially as busuu.com was already nominated in two categories at last year´s Europas Awards! Additionally, this nomination continues […]

Time to celebrate: busuu.com reaches 1,000,000 users!

Today is a very important day in the history of busuu.com: we have reached more than 1 million users! This makes us Europe’s largest online community for learning languages. Starting as a simple idea just two-and-a-half years ago, busuu.com has grown to be huge! Since our launch in May 2008, our brilliant worldwide community has: earned […]

Try out our new alphabet section in all our 7 languages!

After implementing a special alphabet section for our new Russian course we received many requests frhttp://blog.busuu.com/learn-to-speak-russian-for-free-with-busuu-com/om our users to offer the same for all the 7 languages we offer. Here we go – we have now implemented the alphabet in our Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and English courses as well! Click on any letter, […]

busuu.com launches seven iPhone applications to learn languages on-the-go

Here at busuu.com, we are very excited to announce that you can now learn languages on the go! We have launched seven new iPhone applications for free download on the iTunes App Store. Our new iPhone applications enable you to learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and English directly from your iPhone (including the […]

Learn to speak Russian for free with busuu.com!

Привет (that’s ‘hello’ in Russian)! Spoken by more than 280 million people, Russian is the largest native language in Europe and the 8th most important language in the world. In addition, we received a lot of requests from our users to add this language to the courses we offer. So, we’re very excited to launch […]