Online crowdsourcing sites/platforms have become popular in recent
years. This study aims to uncover when, where, and how language learners in
Turkey (TUR), Poland (POL), Macedonia (MAC), and Bosnia and Herzegovina
(B&H) make use of the available crowdsourcing websites/games to learn
foreign languages. To ensure parallelism among the data collected in the
four countries, a cross-culturally appropriate online questionnaire in
English comprised of two parts was designed for this study. Part one
gathered information about the use of crowdsourcing sites, tools, and games,
while part two elicited background information related to the participants
(N=211). The data were analysed considering country- and context-specific
variables. The results show that there are more similarities than
differences in the ways informants in the studied countries perceive, and
employ crowdsourcing resources to learn languages. Therefore, the findings
might provide insights for experts, material developers and teacher trainers
striving to create cross-culturally valid crowdsourcing
platforms/games.