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busuu.com is Europe’s largest online community for learning languages. The website was launched in May 2008 and by October 2011 it had reached 5,000,000 registered users from over 200 different countries.

The users can access audio-visual language courses in currently 10 languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Polish and Arabic). They can practice their language skills with native speakers of the community via an integrated video-chat application and peer-to-peer text corrections.

In addition to the regular language courses, in September 2011 busuu.com launched a Business English Course with words and key phrases used in typical business situations. In October 2011, a Business Spanish Course followed and other business language courses will follow in the near future.

The website partners with Collins and PONS (part of the publishing house Klett Group, one of Europe’s largest providers of educational services and material) to offer grammar resources to its users. Additionally, users can access daily updated news articles from The Guardian with an integrated dictionary functionality provided by MacMillan.

busuu.com launched iPhone/iPad applications in September 2010 and in 2011 the apps won the “Stiftung Warentest” for Best Mobile English Vocabulary Trainer. In August 2011, busuu.com also launched Android applications. Both apps are available in all nine languages offered on the website and in total they have been downloaded over 4 million times.

busuu.com was an official project of UNESCO’s International Year of Languages in 2008. The website has received several awards including AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner 2009, Language Label 2009 from the European Commission, CeBIT Innovation Award 2010, Red Herring European Winner 2010, and won the category ‘Best Education, Recruitment, Media Startup’ at the Europas TechCrunch Awards in 2011.

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  busuu added Teo Ruiz as CTO. (1/3/11)
  Posted 6/14/11 at 11:57pm
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  busuu added Bernhard Niesner as Co-Founder & CEO.
  Posted 12/17/08 at 4:05am
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  busuu added Adrian Hilti as Co-Founder.
  Posted 12/17/08 at 4:05am
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  busuu received in Angel funding. (4/21/11)
  Posted 4/21/11 at 3:59am via techcrunch.com
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  busuu received in Angel funding. (2/24/10)
  Posted 2/24/10 at 7:24pm via venturebeat.com
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  busuu — Learn Arabic for free on busuu.com (12/13/11)
  Posted 1/4/12 at 6:19am via busuu.com
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  busuu — busuu.com reaches 10 million users (11/21/11)
  Posted 12/1/11 at 1:00am via busuu.com
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  busuu — busuu.com wins the Education category of The Europas! (11/21/11)
  Posted 12/1/11 at 1:00am via busuu.com
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  busuu — New on busuu.com: Business Spanish Course (10/12/11)
  Posted 10/14/11 at 12:25am via busuu.com
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  busuu — Busuu.com, una red social española para aprender idiomas (9/26/11)
  Posted 10/6/11 at 12:20am via cincodias.com
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  busuu — busuu.com launches Business English Course! (9/1/11)
  Posted 10/5/11 at 5:51am via busuu.com
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  busuu — New Grammar Guides on busuu.com (9/22/11)
  Posted 10/5/11 at 5:50am via busuu.com
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  busuu — busuu.com launches Android apps for nine languages (8/1/11)
  Posted 8/11/11 at 12:03am via busuu.com
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  busuu — busuu.com has reached more than 3m users (7/7/11)
  Posted 8/11/11 at 12:02am via busuu.com
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  busuu — busuu.com wins iPhone App test of "Stiftung Warentest" (6/8/11)
  Posted 8/11/11 at 12:00am via busuu.com
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  busuu — busuu.com launches Turkish and Polish courses (5/5/11)
  Posted 8/10/11 at 11:56pm via busuu.com

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1. Busuu.com pulls in angel funding for free online language courses (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
2. Busuu raises Angel round from FON-founder Martin Varsavsky (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. We are online! (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
4. busuu.com rescues the Silbo Gomero (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
5. busuu.com is officially accepted as project for the UNESCO´s International Year of Languages! (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
6. The busuu-baby has grown up! (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
7. busuu.com Co-Founder selected as Entrepreneur of the Year (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
8. busuu.com in Top 3 of best website of the year award! (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
9. Happy birthday busuuuu! (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
10. busuu.com wins Lion in Cannes (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
11. We are 2,000,000 (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
12. Language learning community Busuu partners with The Guardian and Macmillan Education (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. busuu.com wins Innovators’ Pitch at CeBIT (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
14. busuu.com named Red Herring Top 100 European Innovator (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
15. Learn Russian on busuu.com (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
16. busuu.com launches 7 interactive iPhone apps to learn languages on the go (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
17. busuu.com reachers 1m users (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
18. busuu.com partners with Collins (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
19. Record your voice and get a correction by a native speaker (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
20. Learn Turkish and Polish on busuu.com (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
21. Test winner of Stiftung Warentest (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
22. busuu.com has reached more than 3m users (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
23. busuu.com launches Android apps for nine languages (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
24. New Grammar Guides on busuu.com (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
25. busuu.com launches Business English Course! (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
26. Busuu, una red social española para aprender idiomas (cincodias.com) [edit]
27. Improve your CV with our new Business Spanish Course! (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
28. busuu.com wins the Education category of The Europas! (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
29. busuu.com reaches 10 million users (blog.busuu.com) [edit]
30. Learn Arabic on busuu.com (blog.busuu.com) [edit]

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