Thursday, September 20, 2007
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Run, don't walk, to the newly launched language learning site, Mango. It's awesome and more than that, it's FREE. It's a flash based audio interactive site with a nice look and feel. The audio quality is very good. A learning course is divided into lessons and each lesson is in turn divided into slides. There are around 100 lessons for each course.

 The slides starts with formal introductory speech to more casual ones and our learning is tested at the end of every slide. The Mango languages available now are

  • Spanish
  • French
  • Italian
  • Russian
  • Mandarin
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Greek
  • Portuguese

I am hooked on to this site for now but at the same time I am also not sure how the site is going to make money in order to provide free lessons. Will they be free for ever or once the beta testing is done, will they charge for the courses? Let's wait and see but until then, this is one of the coolest web sites around.

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