Mango Languages: Language Learning Resource Added

Library Services has added Mango Languages to its list of database resources. Mango Languages is an online language instruction program that will help develop a user’s knowledge of a particular language, in the following fields: comprehension, cultural insight, grammar, pronunciation, retention, and vocabulary.

Mango Languages currently provides instruction in 34 languages, which are:

Arabic (Levantine) Chinese (Cantonese) Chinese (Mandarin) Croatian Czech Danish Dari Dutch Farsi (Persian) Finnish French German Greek Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Indonesian

Irish Italian Japanese Korean Norwegian Pashto Portuguese (Brazil) Russian Slovak Spanish (Latin America) Tagalog Tamil Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese

You can learn more by visiting Mango Languages TV.

Mango Languages can be accessed on and off campus by faculty, staff, and students of Medicine Hat College; to directly connect to the resource, click here.

Mango Languages, as well as other databases, can be located on the Library Services website in the Databases section. It will be listed alphabetically under the Complete Database List or the Language Learning links.

If you have any questions, please contact the library's Information Desk via email, instant messenger, text message (403.866.5872), telephone (403.504.3544), or in person.

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NOTE: Library Services' subscription to Tell Me More, our other languages learning resource, will be discontinued on 31 August 2011.

"Tell Me More" - Language Learning Resource Added

Library Services has added Tell Me More to its list of resources available to the students of Medicine Hat College. This resource will introduce and progressively develop a user's language skills in: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish (European), and Spanish (South American).

Tell Me More will guide you through the language learning process with:

• Easy-to-comprehend content created by expert instructional designers
• Specialized oral communication content
• Supplemental Business and Culture specific content
• Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening Workshops
• 37 different types of learning activities/interactions
• Speech Recognition with playback and achievement scale
• Spoken Error Tracking System (SETS®) technology automatically detects and corrects your pronunciation errors
• Professional voice-overs, videos, 3-D animations, and real-world graphics
• Anytime, anywhere accessibility

For more details and to access this resource, click here.

For a full list of all of our database resources—which includes access to journal, magazine, and newspaper abstracts and articles, as well as education streaming media—click here, or select the Journal, Magazine, and Newspaper Articles link from the library's homepage.