Estamos muito felizes em comunicar que o curso inglês para os brasileiros finalmente está  pronto! Para começar a aprender, você só tem que clicar em “Lessons” acima e escolher “ESL Brazilian Portuguese”. O curso ainda está em versão beta e não há nenhum custo por enquanto.  Um grande obrigado a todos os nossos usuários brasileiros pelo seu interesse e sugestões.  Estamos ansiosos para ver vocês aprenderem inglês com a Mango!

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We are very happy to announce that the English course for Brazilians is finally ready.  In order to start to learn, you just have to click on “Lessons” and choose “ESL Brazilian Portuguese”.  The course is still in beta and there is no cost for the time being.  A big thanks to all of our Brazilian users for your interest and suggestions.  We are anxious to see you learn English with Mango!

Our language program will now “remember” where you left off, and will bring you to that very spot the next time you login. If you’re working with multiple languages, it’ll “remember” where you are in each course.

We’ll be launching a more sophisticated bookmarking feature in the near future. Stay tuned.

Learning to speak and understand a new language can be one of the most rewarding experiences of your life. We would love to hear your Mango stories. Tell us and the world how Mango Languages has helped you to learn your new language and what that has meant for your life. What were your biggest fears about learning a new language? How is Mango helping you to conquer those fears? What are your goals with your new language? How is Mango helping you to achieve those goals? Do you have any cool, funny or interesting Mango stories?

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Yes.  That’s right.  Mango is FREE.  We have received emails from a number of you implying that you are unaware of the fact that Mango is still free.  When we launched on August 31, 2007, we gave away every feature in every lesson in every language for free.  We are still giving away a ton of free content and features although it will be scaled back from what we were offering before. 

What do I get for free?

1. Learn over 1,100 common high frequency words in your new language.  This is available in every one of our 11 language courses.  As new languages become available, you will have access to those as well.
2. Learn grammar the natural way and learn to put those words together to engage in real and meaningful conversation. 
3. Color coded translations for phrases and sentences so that you can clearly see what words and phrases in your new language actually mean in your native language.
4. Understood translations so that you sound natural when speaking your new language.
5. Literal translations so that you understand the literal meaning of the words that you are speaking and build a stronger vocabulary.
6. Native male and female voices clearly pronouncing words and phrases so that you can learn to understand native pronunciation and so that you can learn to speak like a native.
7. The first 5 lessons of every course will have the Pro level features for free.

As you may have noticed, we don’t have the forum up at the moment.  For those of you that have been using and enjoying the forum we apologize for this.  The reason that we took it down was that we were using a packaged content management system that included a forum application.  We quickly outgrew this prepackaged solution and found that we needed to develop our own custom applications to accomplish everything that we need to.  The prepackaged software was getting in the way of growth and future development and we decided to part with it.  We plan on incorporating community discussions into the lessons themselves and building a social network to replace the previous forum.