My school bought mango language and they are allowing there students to use it for free. I have only spent my a few minutes looking at it does has anyone used it or heard of it. If so do u guys think its worth using. Thanks for the help.

That is how it works. They sell to institutions who offer it free to members.

I need to visit the library where I live. The Minuteman library network (20 libraries in eastern MA, US) bought the service but I actually haven't been to the library yet.

do you like it?

I checked out the trial Japanese, the premise is cool and the chic factor is big but the lessons would take forever, there is a voice in English asking you redundant questions like "What is the meaning of Good Afternoon?", if you add slide transitions on top of that you are looking at spending the whole morning in just a few lessons.

Not worth it for serious learners imo.

AHATT: All Hiragana All The Time. Get me outta here!

mmhorii Wrote:AHATT: All Hiragana All The Time. Get me outta here!

It assumes you are too stupid to learn Kanji.

mmhorii Wrote:AHATT: All Hiragana All The Time. Get me outta here!

you know, reading in full hiragana or katakana is much harder than reading only regular mixture of all 3 writing systems?

bcrAn Wrote:

mmhorii Wrote:AHATT: All Hiragana All The Time. Get me outta here!

It assumes you are too stupid to learn Kanji.

haha, then eventually, once people learn kanji, kana only reading will be even harder to read(or maybe that's just me...)

I tried it when it was in open beta, so they might have changed a few things, but my impression was that it was mainly a phrasebook-style web app, had the same phrases for every language, and some of the phrases weren't the most useful. (The only one I remember was from the final lesson: "Where is the revolving resturant?" or something like that)

thanks for the info it kind of reminds me of pimsuler method a little bit because it has you repeating a new word 10 times through out the lesson

Bokusenou Wrote:some of the phrases weren't the most useful. (The only one I remember was from the final lesson: "Where is the revolving resturant?" or something like that)

回転寿司? I'd say it's something worth asking around for.

quincy Wrote:

Bokusenou Wrote:some of the phrases weren't the most useful. (The only one I remember was from the final lesson: "Where is the revolving resturant?" or something like that)

回転寿司? I'd say it's something worth asking around for.

いや、ちょっと違うと思うけど。(^_^; )
It looked like they had the same sentences for every language without giving any thought as to cultural things. I wonder if they even have revolving restaurants in Japan...

I uploaded an Anki shared deck (Japanese Mango Language Sampler with audio), with a sample of the material from the end of the Japanese lesson series, which should give an indication of the max difficulty level.

I couldn't resist adding kanji to the all-hiragana sentences, so what you'll see is what the content might look like if there were a "Kanji Enabled" mode.