{"id":220,"date":"2016-09-26T13:57:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T13:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/llclibrarian\/?p=220"},"modified":"2016-09-26T14:15:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T14:15:25","slug":"mango-languages-online-language-courses-for-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/llclibrarian\/2016\/09\/26\/mango-languages-online-language-courses-for-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Mango Languages &#8211; online language courses for trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University Library has arranged a free trial of an online language learning resource called &#8220;Mango Languages&#8221;. The service offers online interactive courses for learning over 70 languages, including almost all those that are taught at\u00a0our University:<\/p>\n<p>Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese),\u00a0Danish, Finnish, French,\u00a0Gaelic (Scottish), German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean,\u00a0Latin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish,\u00a0Swahili,\u00a0Turkish, as well as\u00a0Shakespeare English!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-221 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/llclibrarian\/files\/2016\/09\/Mango-Languages.png\" alt=\"Mango Languages\" width=\"1680\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/llclibrarian\/files\/2016\/09\/Mango-Languages.png 1680w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/llclibrarian\/files\/2016\/09\/Mango-Languages-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/llclibrarian\/files\/2016\/09\/Mango-Languages-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/llclibrarian\/files\/2016\/09\/Mango-Languages-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/llclibrarian\/files\/2016\/09\/Mango-Languages-480x300.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1680px) 100vw, 1680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It consists of two types of resources: Mango Conversations teaches through native-speaker dialogue, cultural insights, and critical thinking exercises, while Mango Premiere teaches foreign languages through the dialogue and culture found in full-length international films. Proprietary technology includes interactive subtitles and colour coding which allow learners t easily understand meaning, word order, and grammatical structures. Applications for mobile devices are also available through Google Play and App Store.<\/p>\n<p>The trial is from now until 31 October 2016.<\/p>\n<p>For access, please go to the Library&#8217;s e-resources trial website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/information-services\/library-museum-gallery\/finding-resources\/library-databases\/e-resources-trials\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/information-services\/library-museum-gallery\/finding-resources\/library-databases\/e-resources-trials<\/span><\/u><\/a>\u00a0, or go to trial link directly, EASE login is required:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk\/login?url=https:\/\/connect.mangolanguages.com\/university-of-edinburgh\/try\/10c39bacf\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">https:\/\/www.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk\/login?url=https:\/\/connect.mangolanguages.com\/university-of-edinburgh\/try\/10c39bacf<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy learning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University Library has arranged a free trial of an online language learning resource called &#8220;Mango Languages&#8221;. The service offers online interactive courses for learning over 70 languages, including almost all those that are taught at\u00a0our University: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/llclibrarian\/2016\/09\/26\/mango-languages-online-language-courses-for-trial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17,27,18,9,15,10,19,11,8,7,13,12,14,16],"tags":[52,41,51,50,20,43,57,56,24,42,40,58,49,45,46,47,54,59,44,55,48,53],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NSNe-3y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/llclibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/llclibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/llclibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/llclibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/llclibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/llclibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/llclibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/llclibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/llclibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/llclibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}