Mango Languages offers free lessons in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Greek, Brazilian Portugese, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese.
There are 100 lessons with dozens of slides featuring text and audio of native speakers for each language. You can replay the slides any time, and roll your cursor over individual words until they become clear. Users get drilled in vocabulary and grammar of their chosen language.
Adam Howell, who works in a college bookstore in Michigan, has been learning Greek with Mango Languages to improve communication with his Greek-speaking wife and in-laws. He likes the site so far.
"Using the program is great because it's really repetitive and it reviews the previous lesson or and not just the previous lesson but a prior lesson you were supposed to havelearned at the beginning of each lesson so you're always constantlyreviewing," he said. "And just the interface of the thing is very user-friendly."
If Howell were to complete all 100 lessons, he would have a running start at becoming fluent, according to Mango Languages founder Jason Teshuba.
BusinessWeek.com
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