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Two European language learning start ups join forces
Dublin & Madrid, Sept 2009. The team at eurolanguages.com are delighted to announce their partnership with Busuu.com, a leading provider of online language learning communities.
This exciting European partnership seamlessly connects the emerging and exciting area of online language tuition, with an innovative way of booking the more traditional area of offline, school based classroom tuition. In addition to the free online course content offered in several languages, and interactive peer to peer learning through video chat, the 150,000 members of Busuu.com now have the opportunity to search, compare and confirm the best quality language schools throughout Europe, using independent student reviews as a guide.
Commenting on the launch, Peter Hutchinson, co-founder of Eurolanguages.com said “We are delighted that members of busuu.com now have the opportunity to book the best quality offline courses, at the best available prices”, and Bernhard Niesner, co-Founder of busuu.com added “The offer of language courses abroad on our platform perfectly complements the learning needs of our students”.
The partnership has already achieved it’s first success shortly after launch – with several students of busuu.com already booked on courses such as “Surfing & Spanish in Andalusia” and “Wine Tasting & Italian in the Toscana”. This agreement shows the perfect integration of complementary services between two innovative European start-ups within the emerging online language learning industry.
About Eurolanguages.com
Launched in September 2008, Eurolanguages.com (http://www.eurolanguages.com) was developed by two co-founders who recognised how difficult it was to find credible information on the variety of language schools available. Searching on Google wasn’t helpful, and the myriad of school, agency and portal sites often presented conflicting content and pricing. Taking their inspiration from Hostelworld.com, the team at Eurolanguages now have over 85 independently rated and reviewed school partners, teaching 9 languages in 13 countries live and available to book online. In addition to their commitment to quality, Eurolanguages also guarantee the best prices available anywhere.
About busuu.com
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 practice their conversational skills by connecting via an integrated video-chat with other native speakers of the community. Each user is not only “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 150,000 users from over 200 different countries.
In the year 2008, busuu.com was accepted as a project for the UNESCO´s International Year of Languages. As part of this commitment, busuu.com launched a campaign to rescue the nearly extinct whistled language Silbo Gomero (http://www.busuu.com/silbo) for which it received a Silver Lion in the International Marketing Festival in Cannes in May 2009.
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.
