CPCC Students and faculty have access to Mango Languages through October 20th, 2010. The library is considering purchasing this resource. Give Mango a try and let us know what you think! Contact Kimberley Balcos (kimberley.balcos@cpcc.edu) with questions or comments.

Mango is an online language learning system that teaches real conversation skills for practical communication. Through fun and engaging interactive lessons, Mango makes learning a new language fast, easy and incredibly effective. Choose from 36 guided language experiences, 14 English as a second language experiences, and different levels of fluency.

Mango’s lessons copy the way people learn when surrounded by a foreign culture – through practical conversation. Every lesson incorporates all 4 conversational components (Vocabulary, Pronunciation, Grammar and Culture), each of which is critical to your ability to communicate in a foreign language. At the same time, you’ll be increasing your ability to actually USE what you learn, with a variety of critical thinking and memory exercises. As you listen to and repeat after native speakers, you’ll learn more than just words and phrases. You’ll learn how those pieces can be rearranged and combined to make new thoughts and new conversations.

The Mango system is completely web-based and remotely accessible, so you can learn anywhere you have an internet connection.