busuu

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homepage

http://www.busuu.com

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Company Name

Busuu

Job Title / Role / Designation

Business Developper

Company Profile

busuu.com (http://www.busuu.com) is a free online community for learning languages. Users have access to audio-visual learning material covering more than 150 different day-to-day topics. Additionally, language skills can be directly improved together with native speakers from around the world. Users connect via an integrated video-chat with other native speakers of the community to practice their conversational skills. Each user is not only a “student” of a foreign language but also a “tutor” of his own mother tongue. The start-up was founded in Madrid at the beginning of 2008 and has currently more than 250,000 users from over 200 different countries. The name of the site comes from the Busuu language of Cameroon, which according to an ethnological study from the 80s is only spoken by 8 people.

History

Member for

2 years 18 weeks