Customer stories
What changed once Mango was in the building
Teachers, librarians, and program leads on what actually shifted, including the parts that are hard to put a number on.
By organization
Libraries
Public library systems on how patrons actually find Mango in the catalog, what circulation looked like afterwards, and, in one case, why a library that dropped it went back.
Lexington Public Library
Lexington, Kentucky
A community-wide language resource that needed no shelf space and no maintenance.
Pikes Peak Library District
Colorado
Fifteen branches, one language resource, and a year of steady growth in patron use.
East Baton Rouge Parish Library
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Budget cuts moved the library off Mango. Patrons moved it back.
Five public libraries
Workforce development, a pirate day, and a patron who learned Swahili before a trip to Kenya.
K-12 schools
Districts and single schools, most of them running Mango for English learners alongside world-language classes. Several tracked hours logged and growth over the first months and reported the figures.
Clarion-Goldfield-Dows School District
Clarion, Iowa
A district whose English learner population tripled found a way to give newcomers a running start.
Dennis Township School District
New Jersey
One Spanish teacher, 55 minutes a week per class, and a way to keep students practising the rest of the time.
Hoboken High School
Hoboken, New Jersey
A French teacher rebuilt her curriculum around authentic audio, and students started testing her in the hallway.
Lighthouse Christian School
Gig Harbor, Washington
Students pick their own language, and families learn alongside them at home.
Hudson County Schools of Technology
Hudson County, New Jersey
Italian instruction moved off the textbook and onto a platform students could use from home.
New Caney Independent School District
New Caney, Texas
40,000 sessions, a Faculty Spanish Club, and parents learning English at the school's own Parent Nights.
Duluth Edison Charter Schools
Duluth, Minnesota
A Spanish teacher swapped textbooks for technology mid-shutdown, and watched usage climb.
In their words
The part that doesn't show up in a report
Dr. Elizabeth Appleby
Associate Professor of French, LaGrange College
“By providing a freer space just to explore, Mango has helped with motivating students. I noticed they were telling me things I hadn't taught them yet because they got it from using Mango at home.”
Higher education
Two colleges using Mango alongside the classes they already teach: one replaced the textbook with it, the other found students turning up having learned things nobody had taught them yet.
Cornerstone University
Grand Rapids, Michigan
A linguistics professor replaced the textbook and found students arriving at lectures already engaged.
LaGrange College
LaGrange, Georgia
Students came back from the holidays still speaking French, and 40 languages turned up across campus.
Business
Two companies with different problems: a pharmaceutical firm on three continents replacing training employees ignored, and a manufacturer counting what mistranslation cost it across four working languages.
Astellas Pharma Inc.
A pharmaceutical company with offices on three continents replaced CD-based training with something employees would actually use.
Rust-Oleum
Vernon Hills, Illinois
Mistranslations were costing a paint manufacturer time and money across four working languages.
Individual learners
Learners rather than organizations: a flight attendant who collects languages, a traveler who took Swahili up Kilimanjaro, and a seven-year-old who chose Arabic and started using it on anyone who would listen.
Craig
A musician and flight attendant who collects languages the way other people collect stamps.
Sara
Arabic is her main focus. Swahili got her up Kilimanjaro in good company.
Kristen, Jacqueline and Leah
Michigan
A seven-year-old picked Arabic, and started using it on anyone who would listen.
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