Mango Languages
Mango Languages is an online language learning resource based in Farmington Hills, Michigan.[1][2] Jason Teshuba, Mike Teshuba, Ryan Whalen and Mike Goulas founded the service in 2007.[1] Jason Teshuba serves as the CEO of Mango Languages.[3][4] As of April 2019, Mango Languages offers 71 language courses. Additionally, the service offers English lessons in 17 languages and specialty courses to teach cultural differences.[5] Courses are accessible from a web browser or an app.[6] In 2013, Mango Languages earned $7.9 million in revenue.[1] In June, 2019, Mango launched a new brand identity and released “major advancements to its platform,” including “new personalized, adaptive, conversation-based lessons in over 70 languages for web, iOS, and Android.”[7]
Founded | 2007 |
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Founder | Jason Teshuba, Mike Teshuba, Ryan Whalen and Mike Goulas |
Headquarters | Farmington Hills, Michigan |
Website | www |
Languages
As of April 2020, Mango offered courses in the following languages.
Arabic: Modern Standard
Arabic: Egyptian dialect
Arabic: Iraqi dialect
Arabic: Levantine dialect
Aramaic: Chaldean
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Bengali
Cherokee
Chinese: Mandarin dialect
Chinese: Cantonese dialect
Chinese: Shanghai dialect
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dari
Dutch
Dzongkha (Bhutanese)
Filipino: Tagalog
English
English: Shakespearean
Finnish
French
French: Canadian
German
Greek: Modern
Greek: Ancient
Greek: Koine (Biblical)
Haitian Creole
Hawaiian
Hebrew: Modern
Hebrew: Biblical
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Igbo
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kazakh
Korean
Latin
Malay
Malayalam
Norwegian
Pashto
Persian(Farsi)
Pirate
Polish
Portuguese: Brazilian
Potawatomi
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Scottish Gaelic
Serbian
Shanghainese
Slovak
Spanish: Castilian
Spanish: Latin American
Swahili
Swedish
Tagalog
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Tuvan
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Yiddish
As a novelty, Mango also offers a short course in "Pirate."
References
- "Mango Languages Finalist: $5.1 million to $30 million". June 8, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
- "Library Linguistics". August 4, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
- "You are what you speak: Mango Languages". April 29, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
- "Mango offers language learning online". September 20, 2007. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
- McLaughlin, Pamela (July 27, 2015). "Mango Languages- New Language Learning Tool Now Available". Syracuse University Libraries. Archived from the original on September 9, 2015. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
- "Libraries branch out with Mango language software". December 29, 2009. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
- "Mango Languages Sprouts a Sweet Relaunch". August 9, 2019. Retrieved October 8, 2019.