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Founded | 2007 |
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Founder | Jason Teshuba, Mike Teshuba, Ryan Whalen and Mike Goulas |
Headquarters | Farmington Hills, Michigan |
Website | www |
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]
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]
As of May 2024, Mango offered courses in the following languages:
Language | Units | Chapters | Lessons | Assessment & Placement | Premium Course | Classroom Guides | Additional Listening & Reading Activities |
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Arabic: Egyptian dialect | 1 | 10 | 85 | Yes | |||
Arabic: Iraqi dialect | 4 | 20 | 97 | ||||
Arabic: Levantine dialect | 5 | 41 | 594 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Arabic: Modern Standard | 3 | 15 | 78 | ||||
Arabic - Arab Etiquette (MSA) | 1 | 1 | 8 | Yes | |||
Armenian | 3 | 15 | 87 | ||||
Azerbaijani | 3 | 15 | 85 | ||||
Bengali | 3 | 15 | 76 | ||||
Aramaic: Sureth | 1 | 10 | 104 | Yes | |||
Cherokee | 1 | 2 | 11 | Yes | |||
Chinese: Cantonese | 1 | 10 | 56 | Yes | |||
Chinese: Mandarin | 5 | 41 | 595 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mandarin - Business | 1 | 5 | 87 | Yes | |||
Mandarin - Feng Shui | 1 | 1 | 7 | Yes | |||
Mandarin - Zodiac Signs | 1 | 1 | 11 | Yes | |||
Croatian | 3 | 15 | 83 | ||||
Czech | 3 | 15 | 93 | ||||
Danish | 3 | 15 | 83 | ||||
Dari Persian | 1 | 2 | 13 | Yes | |||
Dutch | 3 | 15 | 80 | ||||
Dzongkha (Bhutanese) | 1 | 2 | 13 | Yes | |||
Persian | 2 | 20 | 200 | Yes | |||
Finnish | 3 | 15 | 76 | ||||
French | 5 | 41 | 567 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
French: Canadian | 3 | 15 | 75 | ||||
German | 5 | 41 | 721 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Greek: Modern | 2 | 20 | 189 | Yes | |||
Greek: Ancient | 1 | 4 | 35 | Yes | |||
Greek: Koine (Biblical) | 1 | 4 | 47 | Yes | |||
Haitian Creole | 3 | 15 | 75 | ||||
Hawaiian | 3 | 15 | 93 | ||||
Hebrew: Modern | 1 | 10 | 76 | Yes | |||
Hebrew: Biblical | 1 | 4 | 51 | Yes | |||
Hindi | 1 | 10 | 55 | Yes | Yes | ||
Hungarian | 3 | 15 | 83 | ||||
Icelandic | 3 | 15 | 75 | ||||
Igbo | 3 | 15 | 95 | ||||
Indonesian | 3 | 15 | 77 | ||||
Irish | 1 | 10 | 72 | Yes | |||
Italian | 5 | 41 | 566 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Japanese | 5 | 41 | 638 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Javanese | 1 | 10 | 52 | ||||
Kazakh | 3 | 15 | 94 | ||||
Korean | 1 | 10 | 75 | Yes | Yes | ||
Korean - Academic Study | 1 | 16 | 129 | Yes | |||
Latin | 1 | 10 | 74 | Yes | Yes | ||
Malay | 3 | 15 | 89 | ||||
Malayalam | 4 | 20 | 93 | ||||
Norwegian | 3 | 15 | 77 | ||||
Pashto | 1 | 2 | 12 | Yes | |||
Pirate | 1 | 1 | 6 | Yes | |||
Polish | 1 | 10 | 141 | Yes | |||
Potawatomi | 1 | 10 | 133 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Portuguese: Brazilian | 5 | 41 | 552 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Punjabi | 3 | 15 | 93 | ||||
Romanian | 3 | 15 | 84 | ||||
Russian | 5 | 41 | 528 | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Scottish Gaelic | 1 | 10 | 85 | Yes | |||
Serbian | 3 | 15 | 80 | ||||
Chinese: Shanghainese | 1 | 2 | 14 | Yes | |||
Slovak | 3 | 15 | 81 | ||||
Spanish: Castilian | 3 | 15 | 96 | ||||
Spanish - Flamenco Dancing | 1 | 1 | 7 | Yes | |||
Spanish - Soccer Celebration | 1 | 1 | 7 | Yes | |||
Spanish: Latin American | 5 | 41 | 682 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Spanish - Business | 1 | 5 | 45 | Yes | |||
Spanish - Text Talk | 1 | 1 | 7 | Yes | |||
Swahili | 3 | 15 | 84 | ||||
Swedish | 3 | 15 | 74 | ||||
Filipino: Tagalog | 1 | 10 | 65 | Yes | |||
Tamil | 3 | 15 | 91 | ||||
Telugu | 3 | 15 | 90 | ||||
Thai | 1 | 10 | 66 | Yes | |||
Turkish | 1 | 10 | 67 | Yes | |||
Tuvan | 1 | 1 | 8 | Yes | |||
Ukrainian | 3 | 15 | 84 | ||||
Urdu | 1 | 10 | 69 | Yes | |||
Uzbek | 3 | 15 | 95 | ||||
Vietnamese | 1 | 10 | 70 | Yes | Yes | ||
Yiddish | 3 | 15 | 76 |
As a novelty, Mango also offers a short course in "Pirate". [3]