The Mango Blog

Did you know that Han Chinese (Mandarin) is the most widely spoken language in the world? The need to learn Chinese Mandarin has certainly increased over the last two decades as China's booming population and increasing wealth..

Technology is the future, and boy do we know it here at Mango. It already plays a huge role in the ever-changing world of language learning, from long conversations via Skype to informational podcasts on a Sunday afternoon. While..

There’s something in the air, we can feel it — 2017 is going to be the year of the language learner. It’s lucky number 7: now’s the time to go all in on those language-learning aspirations you’ve been harboring away for years...

The fourth annual Polyglot Conference is less than a month away. This year, it’s being held in Thessaloniki, Greece from October 29th to 30th. Mango Languages is so excited to be a part of it!

We love the world’s cultures too much to say we have a favorite holiday. But if we had to pick, International Talk Like a Pirate Day would be the one. 

 Mango Languages uses its own unique methodology to teach languages and here are some tips for how to get the most of it from one of our very own linguists: Lilia! 

We’ve all been there. We tell ourselves that we’re going to learn a language. We get pumped up, we gather materials, maybe we’ve even learned a bit on our own or signed up for a class. It would seem that we have everything we..

We have recently been sent some questions on how the tenses imperfetto and passato prossimo are used. Here are some tips which we hope will help you with the use of these two tenses.

Deciding to tackle a new language is no easy feat. Besides setting aside time to practice verb conjugations and rolling those tricky Spanish Rs, there are also a number of language learning myths that will deter your library..

Culture and language fluency — connecting in-common culture interests with language learning. Selecting an activity where we have in-common cultural fluency is helpful in our quest to understand what is ‘foreign’ to our ears, but..

One of Mango Languages' grove trotters, Amanda, is learning Icelandic. Hear from her directly!

I know, it probably sounds unreasonable or unnecessary, but I have a legitimate reason for doing so. And no, my rationale is not to..

What’s holding you back from learning a language? If it’s any one of these 10 misconceptions about language learning, you might want to reconsider.