We are currently looking to add several talented professionals to our staff in Farmington Hills, MI. Over the past couple weeks we have interviewed many candidates in our headquarters, and some of my proudest moments have come when interviewees remarked upon one of our core values: Positive Attitude. Nearly everyone we spoke with stressed how every Mango seemed energetic and ready to tackle the day with a smile on their face. It reminded me that a positive attitude can take you a long way in the business world. It seems simple enough, and we’ve all heard this advice a hundred times, but occasionally it takes an outsider’s perspective to remind you of how unique your work environment truly is. It makes me appreciate our staff even more.
Do you think a positive attitude can make a difference at a company? It’s a lot better than becoming a single-minded production drone!
We are excited to announce that on Monday, Mango launched our new voice comparison feature.
This feature is automatically included in your current subscription at absolutely no charge!
Voice comparison helps users improve their speaking skills. It’s completely integrated within each Mango Basic Lesson (currently not in the Complete version). All you need is a microphone and a passion for perfectly proper pronunciation!
This is how it works: after a user completes a slide, the voice compare button will appear. They can then record their voice and play it back to hear themselves speak. In addition, they can align a visual representation of their recording with the native speaker’s version for comparison. Users may adjust their pronunciation until it lines up with ours–they’ll be speaking like a native in no time!
Want to see a one-on-one demo? Contact us at a 877-Mango-11.
Did you know that it is considered grammatically correct? (Hint: it uses tons of homonyms and homophones!) Read more about the sentence here on Wikipedia.
And listen to Ryan Whalen, Co-founder of Mango Languages, and other Mangoes discuss this concept. We’ll certainly have your head spinning!
Listen to Scott Brills talk about how the money we contributed to the Mongol Rally helped build a new school in Mongolia. He also has a chance to unfold some of the wild adventures he had on his journey from the United States. Crazy stuff!
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We recently spoke with our marketing intern, Joe Garafalo, about his experiences as an intern at Mango Languages. Listen as he discusses the work he did on some of our projects, including the Chicago-ALA conference in July 2009. We plan on hiring 4-6 interns this summer to help us out in areas like linguistics, sales, marketing, and tech development. If you are interested in interning with Mango Languages, please submit your resume on our careers page.
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1. In Hebrew the adjective follows the noun, e.g. “city big.” English speakers tend to put the noun after the adjective according to the English word order, e.g. “big city.”
2. Hebrew nouns, adjectives, and verbs have a designated gender (either female or male). For example, “television” is feminine while “radio” is masculine. English speakers tend to mix up the genders.
3. Hebrew nouns, adjective, and verbs have to match in number and gender. Let’s take, for example, “a good pizza.” Since “pizza” is feminine, the adjective “good” should be feminine as well. English speakers have the tendency to forget this rule and do not match adjective, nouns, and verbs in number and gender.
4. In Hebrew there are two sets of numbers, feminine and masculine, which are used based on the noun that is being counted. For example, in the phrase “10 boys” the number ten is pronounced and written differently than in the phrase “10 girls.” English speakers easily confuse the two sets of numbers.
5. In Hebrew, the definite article is used both before the noun and before the adjective, e.g. “the cake the sweet.” English speakers tend to use the definite article only once as it is in English, “the sweet cake.”
6. The right use of prepositions is a source of frustration for English speakers. For example, in Hebrew we say “I spoke in the phone” and not “I spoke on the phone” as in English.
7. In Hebrew there are several guttural letters that English speakers have a hard time pronouncing and usually pronounce incorrectly. These guttural letters are “Cheit,” “Chaf,” and “Reish.” “Cheit” sounds like the German or Scottish “ch” but more guttural. “Reish” is pronounced like the French or German “r” or the Italian or Spanish “r” but usually harder.
8. Hebrew does not use “is,” “are,” “do,” and “does,” which really confuses English speakers. English speakers tend to make grammatical mistakes as they try to find alternative expressions.
9. Hebrew verbs have different forms. Each verb is conjugated by gender, tense, and number, which means we have to learn 12 different forms of each verb. This is a hard concept for English speakers to master. In English verbs are conjugated by tense, not by gender or number.
10. A common pronunciation mistake is when English words are used in Hebrew. For example: “television” is pronounced “televizia,” “university” is pronounced “universita,” etc.
We were very excited to read this review of our online language learning software from the great folks over at Icrontic.
Icrontic is a “rad” site that covers PC hardware, gaming, and the tech industry in general. If you are into the Web 2.0 space, then they are a must read site!
Thanks Steven from Icrontic for your thoughtful and kind review!
Mango is an online language-learning system that teaches actual conversation skills for 12 different languages. It’s so easy to use, you’ll see incredible results after just one lesson!
