The Mango Blog

You’ve been working on your target language for months, diligently studying new vocabulary and practicing grammar drills. You read books, you listen to podcasts, you practice speaking the language to yourself in front of the..

Special guest post from Michael Pasquale, Ph.D professor of linguistics at Cornerstone University.  Read in his words: why learning a new language can seem like a daunting task, but you can be successful if you follow a few..

It’s the home stretch, librarians, and that means it’s the busiest time of the year for you. Everywhere on campus, students are cramming for their final tests, cranking out their last term papers, and trying to figure out whether..

Have you ever dreamed about doing what you love as a career? It’s a dream of many in our generation. If you’ve read a couple of blogs on the subject, you’ll already know that there are steps you can take to reach this goal in..

Confession time: we love reading. We devour everything from thousand-page biographies of Lyndon Baines Johnson to the longform journalism of Kiese Laymon to Jorge Louis Borges’ Ficciones in their original Spanish, we’re readers..

It’s a tech-centric world, and we’re just living in it. While the world around us becomes increasingly digitized and tech-based, there are still many overlooked opportunities to upgrade our lives through technology. Old habits..

'I can’t afford to buy study materials.' 'Between work and responsibilities at home, I just don’t have the time to study.' 'I can’t find a partner for speaking practice.' Excuses. Trust us, we’ve heard them all. And they just..