Count down to Christmas with busuu!

Are you getting ready for lots of Christmas fun? At busuu, we’ve created two special learning  activities to look forward to each day: our Language Advent Calendar and a Christmas Learning Unit! Language Advent Calendar Do you have a traditional calendar with chocolates? For each day of the busuu Language Advent Calendar, we will add […]

World of Work: Teddy Nee

Knowing a second language can help you move on in your current job, find new career opportunities or further your studies. In our ‘World of Work’ series, we speak to people who use foreign languages every day. Let’s meet Teddy Nee from Indonesia Hi Teddy! Thanks for talking to busuu. Could you tell us a […]

Are women better language learners?

And the results are in! At busuu we are always looking to find out what conditions lead to optimum language learning. This time, we looked at gender to see if the rumours are true – are women really better language learners? The results were certainly interesting! Commitment to learning A key difficulty for language learners […]

The 1000 words challenge with busuu

How many words do you know in the language you’re learning? Clearly, the more words you know, the better able you are to communicate and interact with others. The Speak to the Future organisation have set up a challenge encouraging us all to meet the 1000 word mark in at least one foreign language. The idea […]

New Android app: Kids learn English and Spanish!

With the brand new busuu Android app for kids, children will have fun while quickly and easily learning 150 English words. Educate, engage and entertain at the same time! Our very first Android language-learning product teaches 150 words of English through a carefully structured course of 30 learning units, packed full of exciting educational games. […]

It's Language of the Month time again!

What did you think of our facts and fun questions about English on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ for our Language of the Month in October? Here’s a taste of what we talked about, as well as news of a challenging language for November! Ask a native speaker Heather, the busuu team’s native English speaker, was […]