Culture & Religion — April 30, 2012

Busuu.com

Busuu.com is an online network for learning languages.

The site offers lessons in a number of languages and the ability to video chat and interact with native speakers – who are also students of another language as well. The site relies on human empathy and the willingness to help others in the effort to learn, and the shows how internet can be used as a new medium for education, community-building, and cultural cross-pollination.

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