Mango Languages: Learning

hello! i’m working to learn gàidhlig, and i’ve been using mango, duolingo & gaelic with jason to learn, and this app has been immensely helpful so far! the closest + literal translations is absolutely GENIUS and incredibly helpful, whereas other apps lack! i’ve really enjoyed using this app, and i hope to continue to do so! •••• i’ve already recommended it to three people in my life who also are learning another language, and two of them immediately downloaded! •••• thank you so much for your work on this app, and when i’m learning korean, i’m sure i’ll find it even more useful! •••• my two cons of this app: 1. gàidhlig is not complete yet. 2. when (at least in scottish gaelic) it asks me to record my voice & then shows the answer, neither my voice nor the answer recording will play. i have to play with it to get them to play. i plan to email support but i want to get a video with another phone so you can actively see me clicking. with some maneuvering, it eventually will play, but it’s finnicky. •••• again, thank you! i love it! i can’t wait to continue learning. i hope y’all continue to update the gàidhlig course, as it only has one unit so far! :’)

This is the first language learning app for Arabic that I’ve come across that teaches colloquial Arabic as well as MSA. Major props for that, I want to be able to speak to people! Not only that but you get started learning the Arabic by constructing sentences so you can start conversing right away. It’s much more effective than random vocabulary you MIGHT use. While you’re learning it makes you think about how the sentence needs to be constructed and you build your vocabulary in a natural way! I love being able to record myself speaking the language against the recorded language. It’s like being with a private tutor, but you get to skip around and learn what you want to instead of what a tutor thinks you should learn. It’s been very helpful for keeping me engaged. They include the short vowels in the writing as well so you’re not clueless as to how they say specific words in dialect. (WARNING: This app doesn’t teach you how to read Arabic. Learn that quick before you jump on here, it will take at most a week for you to learn the alphabet. I have learned though how to pronounce what I’m reading in a more natural way!) This app is well worth the money! Save your dollars on other books and apps and get this app if you love learning languages! You aren’t limited to one language either! Good luck!

I’ve been using the Mango app to help me learn Spanish. What I really like is the ability to have the pronunciation of phrases repeated. If I want to hear something again, it is very easy to do so. The app includes a lot of repetition, which can be very good in learning new vocabulary and grammar. There seems to be just the right amount of grammatical exclamation, and the explanations are clear and concise. I would suggest two improvements. First, I wish the pages included text indicators of whether one is speaking formally or informally, using the plural or singular, or using a particular adjective to describe a masculine or feminine object if it is not clear from the English translation. One can turn on a narrator’s voice, which does include that information, but it means taking more time to get through each item, for the narrator includes an introductory phrase for each page even if no such information is needed. (Example: “Now how would you say...”) Second, it would be useful if the app could have more variation and recombinations in the examples. The exact same example appears over and over. It would be useful to have variations using other vocabulary one has already learned. I do understand, however, that this would add to the production cost of the app and perhaps require more larger file sizes, for more native-speaker recordings would have to be created and stored. Overall, though, it’s a very useful app for learning languages!