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Are some languages harder to learn?
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What is Language? (let’s talk linguistics!)
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Your school’s secret superhero: Librarians revealed
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What is Second Language Acquisition (and why does it matter)?
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How to help your language learners avoid the “Summer Slide”
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Shining a spotlight on indigenous languages: Hawaiian
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The 9 Essential Terms to Pack on Your Journey into the World of Second Language Acquisition
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4 Key Differences between First and Second Language Learning
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How the languages you know influence the languages you’re learning
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Can you learn a language without trying?
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Am I too old to learn a new language?
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How Speech Sounds Work (let's talk phonetics!)
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The Building Blocks of Speech (how to use the IPA!)
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8 Tips for Giving Better Corrective Feedback to our Language Learners
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Am I fluent yet?
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Are some people just good at learning a new language?
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How does your mind help you learn a second language?
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What motivates you to learn a second language?
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Why do you get anxious about learning a second language?
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Can you have a "great personality" for language learning?
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Music and language learning: A harmonious duo?
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How to learn a second language: A comprehensive guide
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What every language teacher should know about the “fluency illusion”
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Celebrating Autumn abroad
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How to create a student-driven classroom Unpublished
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What is the “Desirable Difficulty Principle?”(and 4 fun ways to integrate it in your language learning classroom!)
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The Sound Systems of Language (let’s talk phonology!)
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How Sentences Work
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How Morphology Works
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How Semantics Works
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5 Do’s & Don’t for cultivating a culturally diverse language learning class
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Ghost Stories from Around the World (and Associated Vocabulary)
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Halloween away from home: How assignees can celebrate with their children
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What is Pragmatics?
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How Prosody Works
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What’s a flipped classroom, and what does it have to do with your library?
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Introducing study reminders: 3 tips to bust the ‘Too Busy’ myth
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Top things students struggle with at the library
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Surviving (and Thriving!) in business meetings abroad
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Learning through collaboration: how students can access resources your library doesn’t have
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How to equitably accommodate individual learner needs in the language classroom (a practical teacher question ANSWERED!)
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How to make your language classroom optimally accessible for each of your learners (while also avoiding teacher burnout!)
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Top 3 challenges facing today’s public librarians
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4 ways language training will help your company build better relationships
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3 ways to encourage adaptation and mitigate culture shock for your assignee’s Family
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Navigating the new school year abroad
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What is Cultural Intelligence (CQ)?
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3 big ways language training impacts international assignments
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Why Mango’s methodology is best for assignees
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English language learning for expats relocating to the states
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3 reasons why the multilingual employee is good for business
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Start the conversation in Potawatomi
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Interview with the CEO of Mango Languages
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Getting funding for Mango
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Promoting a healthy lifestyle abroad
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Monitoring and reporting students’ Mango usage: what to look for
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Connecting your library with different departments on campus
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Promoting volunteerism at your rural library
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Best practices from public libraries applicable to academic libraries
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Managing food restrictions abroad
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3 tips to maintaining family traditions when on reassignment
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Using voice and power to advocate for lasting change
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Why libraries matter now more than ever
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Are you ready for international talk like a pirate day?
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The academic library and college rankings
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How to make the most of language learning at home
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Challenges libraries in urban communities face
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Four steps to becoming a professional language learner
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Four great reasons to integrate language learning into your corporate culture
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No excuses: 20 simple & fun ways to practice learning a new language
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How can teachers help students develop an intuition for target language grammar? (4 easy tips for acquiring a “feel” for grammar)
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Does your dog speak Spanish? Pet commands in five languages
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How to secure more funding for your library with these six resources
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The history of the library
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Four ways to keep your language-learning resolution this year
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4 amazing women from around the world to celebrate on International Women’s Day
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The shopper’s guide to global mobility: what foreign items won’t make it through US customs
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10 mouth-watering recipes from around the world
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Everything you never knew about Halloween celebrations around the world
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How to celebrate Thanksgiving abroad
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Ukranian ‘pysanky’ is the coolest way to decorate Easter eggs
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10 Inspiring books for language learners of all kinds
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Multiple Perspectives: why cultural diversity is necessary for innovation
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Why Formative Assessments are a teacher’s biggest secret power (+ 3 simple tips for using them in your language classroom!)
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What “Growth Mindset” has to do with language learning (feat. 4 teacher tips!)
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What is the Spacing Effect? (and why you should be using it!)
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5 easy & fun ways to use spaced repetition
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Three important ways Día de los Muertos is not Halloween
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Save an endangered language: learn Dzongkha
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Save an endangered language: learn Yiddish
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Save an endangered language: learn Tuvan
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Interview with Laura Blackmore: Creator of Multilinguals of Melbourne
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6 Ways to Make Language Learning an Adventure for your Students!
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Foreign Words Without Literal English Translations: How to Use Them (and Where They Might Come Up in the Workplace)
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Best foreign languages to learn
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What are the easiest languages to learn?
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What are the hardest languages to learn?
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The Facts Behind Five St. Nicholas’ Day Traditions (Including Krampus)
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Why Preserve Endangered and Indigenous Languages?
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5 Ways Mango Helps Learners Connect with Culture for Hispanic Heritage Month
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Celebrate an endangered language: learn Cherokee (Tsalagi Gawonihisdi)
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Sicilian and Italian: What’s the difference?
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Six American Athletes You Didn’t Know Are Actually Multilingual
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How to Improve Listening Skills in a Foreign Language
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What factors influence language learning?
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How long does it take to learn a language?
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How to improve your pronunciation
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9 reasons why English is a difficult language to learn
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Levels of learning a language
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Must-know language learning myths and misconceptions
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Learn the World’s Universal Language: Sport
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The real story behind Cinco de Mayo (and a few ways you can celebrate)
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March Book Club: Top five Arabic books you can read in English
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April book club: Five favorites inspired by Shakespeare
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May Book Club: Five Modern German Books You Can Read in English
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10 ways to accelerate your language learning process
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11 Unique Ways to Practice Speaking a Foreign Language
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How to improve your reading skills while learning a second language
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How to improve your writing skills in a foreign language
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The most effective language learning strategies
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14 Easy Ways to Improve your Vocabulary Skills
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June Book Club: Five must-read books by Russian authors
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July Book Club: Five French books that inspired some of our favorite movies
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August book club: Required readings from Brazil
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September book club: Seven banned books around the world
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What are the Best Apps for Learning a Foreign Language
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The Truth About Childhood Language Learning: Why It’s Essential for Your Child
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The 9 Best Languages to Learn for Business Globally
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What every language learner should know about dialects
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5 ways language learning is like hitting the gym
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5 Easy Ways to Build your Language Learning “Muscle!”
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3 reasons why mastering pronunciation can be hard
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4 Tips for Mastering Pronunciation (in any language!)
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How to learn another language (and still have a life)?
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10 essential features to look for in language-learning software
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Language learning through multimedia projects
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5 essential tech tools for language learning
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Why Double Meanings Matter When Learning a New Language
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5 tech settings you need to change immediately when learning a language
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5 Ways for Language Learners to Get Better Corrective Feedback & Use It Effectively! (Tips for Language Learners!)
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What Every Language Learner Should Know About the “Fluency Illusion” (And 5 smart study strategies to avoid it!)
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September Book Club: Seven Banned Books Around the World
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Eight stories from North American Indigenous authors
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Five books by Nordic authors to cozy up with this winter
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3 Ways to Celebrate Native American Heritage Month
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Learn a Language for Indigenous Peoples’ Day
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6 Words from World Languages that Will Haunt You this Halloween
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Five Unique Characteristics You’ll Develop by Learning Another Language
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(Almost) Everything You Need to Know About Mangos
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What are the real-life benefits of being bilingual?
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Setting Good Goals
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Six Practical Brazilian Portuguese Business Phrases for International Networking
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Six Practical German Business Phrases for Your Next Conference Call
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Three Things We Can All Learn From How Koreans Celebrate Chuseok
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Not yet as fluent as you want to be?
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Tired of being stuck at “just conversational” in your target language?
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How to have less awkward conversations in your target language (5 tips for keeping a conversation going smoothly)
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Why hearing your target language “in the wild” may be different than how you learned it (Part 1: idiomatic expressions!)
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Why hearing your target language “in the wild” may be different than how you learned it (Part 2: sound blending!)
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Why hearing your target language “in the wild” may be different than how you learned it (Part 3: dialectal diversity!)
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Five Things for Which Modern Society Can Thank Shakespeare
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Overheard in Montréal: Five Quintessentially French Canadian Sentences From the Streets of Quebec
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Love in Other Cultures
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Unique Holidays Around the World
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New Year Celebrations in a New Culture
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Latin Isn’t Dead: Four Reasons to Start Learning Today
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What is Kwanzaa? Three Swahili Phrases That Uncover the Holiday’s Origins
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Easter Island’s Tapati Festival: Four Incredible Competitions Happening Right Now
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What Is French Argot and Why Is It Useful?
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Six Mandarin Chinese Business Phrases for Your Next Conference Call
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Do You Have the Aloha Spirit? Five Hawaiian Words to Live By
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Vive la France: What Is Bastille Day and Why Should You Celebrate It?
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How to Celebrate the New Year in Japan
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Five of the Most Friendly Cities in the World for LGBTQ+ Communities
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Seven Spanish Business Phrases for Your Next Conference Call
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Thanks to pop culture, you know more languages than you think.
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What Is Diwali: Experience the Indian Festival of Lights
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The Most Vegan Countries in the World
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Nine Cold Weather Words That Hit the Spot
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Who Is Noam Chomsky, and What Is His Contribution to Linguistics?
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Watch Out —the Broom’s Coming: Superstitions in Brazilian Culture.
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Hangul Day: Celebrate the Creation of the Korean Writing System
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Celebrate the First Day of Spring With Nowruz Festivities
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Seven Things You Should Know About Russian Culture
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Language or dialect: the war of similarities.
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Give a Carnival Festival Top Spot on Your Bucket List
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Four Lucky Irish Phrases for St. Patrick’s Day
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Holi: The World’s Most Vibrant Festival of Colors
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Your Guide to Celebrating the Carnival of Venice
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Are the Romance Languages Really More Romantic? Learn to Fall in Love With Latin Languages
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More Than Words: Interpreting Body Language Across Cultures
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Your Cheat Sheet to Speaking Spanish like a Pro in Three Different Countries
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An Inside Look Into Spain’s Messiest Festival
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The Bordeaux Wine Festival: A French Wine and Cheese Lover’s Dream
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Saddle Up for Siena’s Palio Horse Race
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After Sunset: Popular Ramadan Foods Across the Arab World
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How to Make the Best Hummus Ever
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The History of St. Patrick’s Day
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Top Five K-Pop Songs for Singing in the Shower
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How to Speak French by Accident
Spanish (Castilian)
Like Water for Chocolate? Learn Spanish Idioms from Latin America
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Adventures in 20 languages
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Why you should learn Greek
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Learn Chinese Mandarin from a native speaker
Irish
Explore the Emerald Isle with Mango’s St. Patrick’s Day Irish course.
Indonesian
Nyepi: Celebrate the Balinese New Year with a day of total silence.
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Language and thought: Is it a chicken-egg dilemma?
Yiddish
Two worlds apart or one united?: About Yiddish in New York.
Persian (Farsi)
11 Persian Gestures You Should Know to Better Understand Iranian Culture
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African American Vernacular English: What is it, where does it come from, and why is it important?
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15 English words that actually come from Greek
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Celebrate Canada's National Indigenous Languages Day with Mango!
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Six Spanish literature classics to (literally) check out at your library
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Oktoberfest: The World’s Largest Folk Festival
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How Mango Languages is Using AI to Support Language Learning
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How to say "dad" in Spanish, Korean, Chinese, and more!
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The voice of Mango: Why we still love using real recordings
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