Description

Beginner ChineseQuote:busuu.com is an online social network service that serves as a community language learning platform, where users can help each other to improve their language skills.[2] The website provides learning units for twelve different languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Polish, Turkish, Arabic, Japanese and Chinese. Learners can set up a profile, add one or more of these languages to their learning portfolio, work through the units at their own pace and keep track of their progress.busuu.com is a Madrid-based startup Web 2.0 company for people interested in learning or improving their language skills. The site boasts a large online community of native speakers taking a step beyond traditional methods of language learning through the use of busuu’s multimedia software material and language exchange.The courses are based on the Common European framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), covering the levels A1, A2, B1 and B2. Each course is divided into learning units covering more than 150 day-to-day topics. For each unit, users benefit from several types of material, such as vocabulary and key phrases, dialogues, audio, podcasts and PDFs. Throughout their studies, users can test their progress thanks to short interactive reviews.Besides the individual courses, users can improve their conversational skills by connecting via busuu’s integrated video-chat directly with native speakers from around the world.Each user is not only a “student” of a foreign language but also a “tutor” of his or her own mother tongue.busuu.com welcomes users speaking any languages. This means that everyone in the community has the potential to learn any number of languages