Mango Languages

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Mango Languages
Founded2007
FounderJason Teshuba, Mike Teshuba, Ryan Whalen and Mike Goulas
Headquarters Farmington Hills, Michigan
Website www.mangolanguages.com

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] through Mango for Libraries, [5] or a membership costs $11.99 per month for one language or $19.99 per month for access to all 71 languages. [6]

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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. [7] [8]

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. [9]

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. [10] Another feature allows users to record their pronunciation and compare a visual image of its waveform to that of a native speaker's. [11] [12] Courses are accessible from a web browser or an app, and progress can be synced across devices. [10] [13]

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.” [14] Mango Languages offers licenses for its software to libraries, schools and other institutions. [10]

Languages

As of May 2024, Mango offered courses in the following languages:

Languages Offered for English Speakers [15]
LanguageUnitsChaptersLessonsAssessment & PlacementPremium CourseClassroom GuidesAdditional Listening & Reading Activities
Arabic: Egyptian dialect 11085Yes
Arabic: Iraqi dialect 42097
Arabic: Levantine dialect 541594YesYesYes
Arabic: Modern Standard 31578
Arabic - Arab Etiquette (MSA)118Yes
Armenian 31587
Azerbaijani 31585
Bengali 31576
Aramaic: Chaldean 110104Yes
Cherokee 1211Yes
Chinese: Cantonese 11056Yes
Chinese: Mandarin 541595YesYesYesYes
Mandarin - Business1587Yes
Mandarin - Feng Shui117Yes
Mandarin - Zodiac Signs1111Yes
Croatian 31583
Czech 31593
Danish 31583
Dari Persian 1213Yes
Dutch 31580
Dzongkha (Bhutanese) 1213Yes
Persian 220200Yes
Finnish 31576
French 541567YesYesYesYes
French: Canadian 31575
German 541721YesYesYesYes
Greek: Modern 220189Yes
Greek: Ancient 1435Yes
Greek: Koine (Biblical) 1447Yes
Haitian Creole 31575
Hawaiian 31593
Hebrew: Modern 11076Yes
Hebrew: Biblical 1451Yes
Hindi 11055YesYes
Hungarian 31583
Icelandic 31575
Igbo 31595
Indonesian 31577
Irish 11072Yes
Italian 541566YesYesYesYes
Japanese 541638YesYesYesYes
Javanese 11052
Kazakh 31594
Korean 11075YesYes
Korean - Academic Study116129Yes
Latin 11074YesYes
Malay 31589
Malayalam 42093
Norwegian 31577
Pashto 1212Yes
Pirate116Yes
Polish 110141Yes
Potawatomi 110133YesYesYes
Portuguese: Brazilian 541552YesYesYes
Punjabi 31593
Romanian 31584
Russian 541528YesYesYes
Scottish Gaelic 11085Yes
Serbian 31580
Chinese: Shanghainese 1214Yes
Slovak 31581
Spanish: Castilian 31596
Spanish - Flamenco Dancing117Yes
Spanish - Soccer Celebration117Yes
Spanish: Latin American 541682YesYesYesYes
Spanish - Business1545Yes
Spanish - Text Talk117Yes
Swahili 31584
Swedish 31574
Filipino: Tagalog 11065Yes
Tamil 31591
Telugu 31590
Thai 11066Yes
Turkish 11067Yes
Tuvan 118Yes
Ukrainian 31584
Urdu 11069Yes
Uzbek 31595
Vietnamese 11070YesYes
Yiddish 31576

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

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  5. ↑ "Libraries". Mango Languages. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
  6. ↑ "Pricing". Mango Languages. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
  7. ↑ "You are what you speak: Mango Languages". April 29, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Mango offers language learning online". September 20, 2007. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
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