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Mango Languages User Guide

This guide provides instruction on how to use the Mango Languages database.

Welcome to Mango Languages

The El Camino College Library offers its patrons Mango Languages, a personalized, adaptive language-learning experience that provides the tools and guidance you need to expand your language skills wherever and however you learn best.  

Features of Mango

  • Learning over 72 languages

  • English for non-speakers in 17 languages

  • Special thematic & cultural modules, e.g., legal & medical Spanish, Brazilian & Spanish soccer, Oktoberfest German

  • Online web-based platform with no downloads or installations needed

  • Off-line access by downloading lessons to app on your mobile device

  • Learn through conversations with memory building exercises

  • Goal-based learning: conversational & grammar goals

  • Interactive words & phrases with semantic color mapping

  • Pronunciation helpers with phonetic popups & audio

  • Record your speech & compare it to audio from a native speaker

  • Listening & Reading Activities for reinforcing learned material and building new skills

  • Cultural & grammar insights sprinkled into lessons

  • Mango Movies for learning through engaging, authentic content

Learn a Language, Explore the World

Image of the word "hello" in a variety of languages.