Mango online languages thru Chicago Public Library

[nuwildcats]

Update 7pm, 2-03-2013: As a CPL member, you can sign on for online access to 44 languages, including Korean. One of the more popular is "Pirate." That's right, Pirate, complete with pronunciations and meanings. Some have different age-level language programs. Mango also includes a tab for translations, so you can resource this site when seeking translations from English. Once signed up on the CPL site (at least) you can download the Mango app to your iPhone or Android phone.

For specific suburbs you'd have to go through their individual library websites to see if they're signed on with Mango. Evanston, for instance, offers it to their resident members but widespread coverage?

With the holidays and all, I put off looking closely at it till now. Korean Lesson 1 offers the basics: Greetings, Gratitudes, Goodbyes. It seems decent enough and includes audio, phonetic romanization, Hangul, and little bits of info like formal, polite and intimate usage. It keeps track of your progress for you. Not quite Rosetta Stone, but not too shabby either and it's free for library members.

While searching through CPL's website for Mango I saw an entry "Mango for Teens" so I'm unsure if this was designed specifically for high schoolers. But for the absolute beginner, I don't know how you can go wrong.

Here's the link: www.chipublib.org/cplbooksmovies/poptopics/language.php Rather than use the link from the actual login/signup page which shows my login info, this link will get you to the general languages page. Select Mango Languages at the top beneath "Featured Resources".

[TheBo]

Wow, nuwildcats, had some time on your hands, eh. LOL. We are grateful.

[nuwildcats]

Thanks, Bo. I posted this remembering reading that you didn't have a background with Korean. For me, when I have time I can practice getting the basics down just right. ("Pirate" btw surprised me! Is it a language?)

[TheBo]

Are you talking about "Yaar" and all that? Pirate is actually more of an internet meme.

talk like a pirate day

[nuwildcats]

I'm talking about Pirate as a language. "Blow me down, the ship's becalmed" is translated as "Oh my gosh, the ship isn't moving" in Pirate and other sentences for use on the "high seas."

[ajk]

Oh sure, you can talk like a pirate all you want...

...but if you want anybody to listen, it's going to cost you. A buccaneer.

[TheBo]

HAH. And yes, nuwildcats, I think "Pirate" as a language grew out of Talk-Like-a-Pirate Day.

[ginnycat5]

Feb 5, 2013 21:01:12 GMT -5 ajk said:

Oh sure, you can talk like a pirate all you want...

...but if you want anybody to listen, it's going to cost you. A buccaneer.

ROTFL ;D
Thanks, I needed the laugh, after having my computer locking up all day. [Worry, worry] Why was it doing that?

[nuwildcats]

Here's the thing: Besides the Korean, Mango offers 3 versions of Egyptian, the rarer Ancient Greek plus the Koine version. And then "Pirate" shows up alongside them.

ginnycat5: after my computer's quirks the last year, I've labelled myself as a dunce when it comes to computers.

[ginnycat5]

nuwildcats, when something goes wrong, I usually try one or two suggestions from what I find in Google searches, unless they look dangerous.... like "clearing the cache". That sounds like it would cause more problems, like not being able to get into my usual sites. ?? (Guess I'm pretty much a dunce too.)

My solution for this problem was to put a lot of stuff in folders instead of spread out wall to wall on my desktop. Genealogy searches are fun, but there's so much to find and save, in case they turn out to be relatives, just names spelled differently. (Well, I have no idea if that was the real problem, but it's working okay now.)

[soapygrams]

After reading about you two having computer problems, I am beginning t think that my computer, SYBILL, has siblings out in the world - My SIL who has much more knowledge about comps than I do, and also can read the small print, which I cannot do anymore, said he couldn't understand what the heck was wrong with it. IT did some goofy stuff when he was sitting at my desk and trying to install a program LOL. It was on the opening desktop page, he had no hand on the keyboard or the mouse; yet the screen went through some changes on its own -.

I cracked up at the look on his face, which probably was the same look I had on mine when it happened to me.
-- I was sort of happy that it happened when someone ELSE beside me was at the comp - Now he knows what Ive been complaining about. Not that it fixed anything - but I at least have the ability to watcha DF once again ;D
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To all my fellow computer problem sufferers, which are probably more than we can imagine, you have my sympathy . Hope you get it all worked out soon.