Mango Language Library has added a new YouTube channel for exploring Basic Chinese Mandarin.
In just three to five minutes, these fun videos over a range of topics for Mandarin language learners, including:
- Reading and writing basic pinyin.
- Pronouncing and practicing tones.
- Learning stroke order for writing characters.
- Discovering variations on common phrases.
New videos are out every Tuesday and Thursday, but make sure to subscribe to the YouTube channel so you don’t miss the next lesson.
Mango Languages is an online language-learning system that is provided for all University of Arkansas students, faculty, and staff by the University Libraries. While it is no replacement for a credit-bearing language course, Mango offers short courses to augment your studies, to brush up on a language you learned back in high school, to develop conversational skills, or to prepare for a study abroad experience.
Mango makes learning fun, featuring interactive tutorials with real-life situations, as well as feature-films and playback audio. Using the Mango Mobile App, you can take your lessons with you anywhere. Mango includes the following foreign languages courses for English speakers (recently-added languages are highlighted):
- American Sign Language
- Arabic, Egyptian
- Arabic, Iraqi
- Arabic, Levantine
- Arabic, MSA
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- Bengali
- Cherokee
- Chinese, Cantonese
- Chinese, Mandarin
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dari
- Dutch
- Dzongkha
- Farsi, Persian
- Finnish
- French
- French, Canadian
- German
- Greek
- Greek, Ancient
- Greek, Koine
- Haitian Creole
- Hawaiian
- Hebrew
- Hebrew, Biblical
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Igbo
- Indonesian
- Irish
- Italian
- Japanese
- Javanese
- Kazakh
- Korean
- Latin
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Norwegian
- Pashto
- Pirate
- Polish
- Portuguese, Brazil
- Punjabi
- Romanian
- Russian
- Scottish Gaelic
- Serbian
- Shanghainese
- Slovak
- Spanish, Latin America
- Spanish, Spain
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tagalog
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
- Yiddish
Mango also offers English-language courses for speakers of Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hmong, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Create your own personal login to keep track of your learning progress.