Do you want to learn a foreign language? We are pleased to announce that the Troy Public Library now offers Mango Languages as one of its electronic resources, both for use in the library and at home.
Mango offers instruction in the following languages: German, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Greek, French, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese, as well as ESL programs for Polish, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese speakers.
Mango uses audio recordings and Flash video to guide you through learning a language. Each lesson consists of a conversation with both audio pronunciations and text showing how the word is written in that language. There are many features, including condensed lessons, vocabulary review, and phrasebook review. One of my favorite features is when you scroll over a word in a different language, a phonetic pronunciation guide pops up!
To access Mango, click on the "Information On-Demand-All Day, Every Day" link in the middle of the TPL homepage (http://www.libcoop.net/troy). Click Language Learning from the subject list then click Mango Languages.
Try out Mango Languages and let us know what you think about it!
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