The Electronic Resource of the Month for May is Mango Languages with a call out to their selection of Asian & Pacific languages. Mango Languages provides 17 Asian language-learning courses from Bengali to Vietnamese and six English as a Second Language courses for speakers of Bengali, Cantonese, Hmong, Mandarin, Korean, and Vietnamese. In addition to grammar courses, films and specialty courses are available. Specialty courses include conversation classes with a specific theme such as feng shui (Chinese) or mimetic words (Japanese).
Mango has apps for devices that support Android 4.1 or later and IOS 7.0 or later. The apps are available through Google Play, Apple’s App Store and through Amazon for Kindle devices.
Access Mango Languages from your home computer via the library’s Research & Homework page (http://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/research-and-homework#M). You will need to have your library card number and PIN handy.
So... dip your toe into the water of a foreign language with the help of Mango Languages.
