busuu.com not so endangered

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busuu.com not so endangered

Mar 14, 2012

NOT SO ENDANGERED: Spain-based online language learning startup busuu.com has partnered with The Guardian and Macmillan Education to bring real-world context behind learning English, according to TechCrunch. Busuu users will access daily news provided from a Guardian feed, and definitions will be powered by Macmillian's online dictionary. Busuu, by the way, is apparently an "endangered" Cameroonian language with only eight remaining speakers, which is a little ironic given that the company boasts Europe's largest online language learning community. But here's a groovy video of the Busuu eight singing about Busuu, in Busuu. Yah!

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