... language, others like to read it and still others just want to get out there and talk. Busuu gives you the opportunity to try all three methods of learning and find out what works for you. After registering with the site, still in beta, you can start ... to the fun parts! Read on for those...Continue reading Busuu makes language learning almost simpleRead | Permalink | Email this& ...

No doubt inspired by the success of the Livemocha language learning site, a new online language learning platform, Babbel.com, is offering free online language lessons during its beta test phase. The new venture seems keen on tapping into plenty of Web 2.0 phenomena: social networking, communities, wikis, and more. The site is definitely planning on some [...]

... , a late Frenchman who was a translator and interrogator during WWII, and developed a "remarkable" foreign-language learning system.I decided to give him a try: I would really like to brush up on my German. So I picked up his course, and, ten minutes in, he's already said something that clicked with me.The word for "would you like" in Germans is ...

  Busuu.com seems to offer more than some of the many other social networking sites for language learning. Busuu.com is a web 2.0 startup company based in Madrid, Spain. Busuu is a free online community for people interested in learning or improving languages. The site consists of a community area where users can go to ask [...]

I frequent some forums where people are very serious about language learning techniques. Well, you kind of have to be, if you're a westerner and trying to become fluent in something like Japanese! There are a number of issues that keep coming up, that people are bitterly divided over. Things like: Should I study English-to-TargetLanguage, or just TargetLanguage-to-English? For example, if I'm

I've graduated to "Phase 2" in language learning. One activity I have to do is to accumulate 10 different recipies from Brazilian friends. Yesterday, our friends MariAngela and her husband Everaldo adpoted us for the day. We went to a parade for the Brazilian Independence Day, had a wonderful lunch, hung out with the extended family, went shopping, and made ...