Mango Languages

Mango Languages is an American online language-learning website and mobile app based in Farmington Hills, Michigan for academic institutions, libraries, corporations, government agencies, and individuals.[1][2][3] A Mango membership can be free at local libraries,[4][3] or a membership costs $7.99 per month for one language or $17.99 per month for access to all 71 languages.[3]

Mango Languages
Founded2007
FounderJason Teshuba, Mike Teshuba, Ryan Whalen and Mike Goulas
HeadquartersFarmington Hills, Michigan
Websitewww.mangolanguages.com

History

Jason Teshuba, Mike Teshuba, Ryan Whalen and Mike Goulas founded the service in 2007.[1] Jason Teshuba serves as the CEO of Mango Languages.[5][6]

As of April 2019, Mango Languages offers 71 language courses. Additionally, the service offers English lessons in 17 languages and specialty courses to teach cultural differences.[7]

Mango Languages employs organic language acquisition and emphasizes learning grammatical principles through realistic conversations; features include interactive lessons, spaced repetition, reinforcement exercises, color-coded translations, video content, and Google Translate integration.[8] Another feature allows users to record their pronunciation and compare a visual image of its waveform to that of a native speaker's.[9][10] Courses are accessible from a web browser or an app, and progress can be synced across devices.[8][11]

In 2013, Mango Languages earned $7.9 million in revenue.[1] In June 2019, Mango launched a new brand identity and released “major advancements to its platform,” including “new personalized, adaptive, conversation-based lessons in over 70 languages for web, iOS, and Android.”[12] Mango Languages offers licenses for its software to libraries, schools and other institutions. [8]

Languages

As of April 2020, Mango offered courses in the following languages:[3]

Arabic: Modern Standard
Arabic: Egyptian dialect
Arabic: Iraqi dialect
Arabic: Levantine dialect
Aramaic: Chaldean
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Bengali
Cherokee
Chinese: Mandarin
Chinese: Cantonese
Chinese: Shanghainese
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dari Persian
Dutch
Dzongkha (Bhutanese)
Filipino: Tagalog
English
English: Shakespearean
Finnish
French
French: Canadian
German
Greek: Modern
Greek: Ancient
Greek: Koine (Biblical)
Haitian Creole
Hawaiian
Hebrew: Modern
Hebrew: Biblical
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Igbo
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kazakh
Korean
Latin
Malay
Malayalam
Norwegian
Pashto
Persian
Polish
Portuguese: Brazilian
Potawatomi
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Scottish Gaelic
Serbian
Slovak
Spanish: Castilian
Spanish: Latin American
Swahili
Swedish
Tagalog
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Tuvan
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Yiddish

As a novelty, Mango also offers a short course in "Pirate."[3]

See also

References
  1. "Mango Languages Finalist: $5.1 million to $30 million". June 8, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  2. "Library Linguistics". August 4, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  3. "Mango Languages Review". PCMAG. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  4. "Mango Languages". The New York Public Library. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  5. "You are what you speak: Mango Languages". April 29, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  6. "Mango offers language learning online". September 20, 2007. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  7. McLaughlin, Pamela (July 27, 2015). "Mango Languages- New Language Learning Tool Now Available". Syracuse University Libraries. Archived from the original on September 9, 2015. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
  8. D, Stevie (2019-07-10). "Mango Languages Review: A Practical and Comprehensive Look at the Program". FluentU Language Learning. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
  9. Henrichsen, Lynn E (October 17, 2020). "An Illustrated Taxonomy of Online CAPT Resources". RELC Journal. 52 (1): 179–188. doi:10.1177/0033688220954560. ISSN 0033-6882. S2CID 228981180.
  10. Bajorek, Joan Palmiter (May 2017). "L2 Pronunciation in CALL: The Unrealized Potential of Rosetta Stone, Duolingo, Babbel, and Mango Languages". Issues and Trends in Educational Technology. 5 (1): 37.
  11. "Libraries branch out with Mango language software". December 29, 2009. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  12. "Mango Languages Sprouts a Sweet Relaunch". August 9, 2019. Retrieved October 8, 2019.
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