Welcome back to another week of learning German, where the title for this post sounds like a key phrase spies like Johnny English and Austin Powers use.
I mentioned in my first post that I wanted to find useful tools for 3 areas : Verbs, Vocabulary and Sentence structure. I successfully found a verb and sentence tool, as seen in my earlier posts. This week, I found the vocabulary tool.
Introducing Mango Languages!
One of the best things about this program/site right off the bat, is that it’s free! “But Josh, I’m combing through the website and its definitely not free!” A true and astute observation. However, I wanted to add more links to this post and that was one way to do it (sorry not sorry).
The way to access it for free is through a medium funded by the public…. the Regina Public library. Here’s the direct link.
Once you sign into your library account, BAM, its all in your fingertips. I would recommend creating an account with Mango as its a way to track your progress and also be able to login the app via your mobile device. You can choose to do German or another language.
Mango splits German into 5 units, with a varying amount of chapters, each with its own subject and vocabulary that its related to. Depending on where you’re at with the language or if you’re interested in a specific subject, you’re able to bounce around from subject to subject without any major barriers. You can jump from learning vocabulary related to numbers to shopping to airports and customs.
Another nice thing about this program is that it shows you both the singular and plural versions of the same word all in one. The lessons take you through the vocabulary step by step and asks you to recall earlier words and/or translations. All of this is through the age-old strategy for learning exams — flashcards.
This is the tool I wished was implemented in Duolingo. Instead of having to scramble through a Duolingo lesson or two to find a specific word you want to remember, you could interact with a bank of words the game has shown you. If this was implemented, it would allow people to have easy access to jump right back into lessons and succeed, instead of choosing to give up.
That’s it for this week! Hope you’re enjoying it so far and let me know if there is anything I can do to go further! And for fun, comment your favorite spy movie and/or favorite fruit!
