{"id":2651,"date":"2020-03-04T13:33:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T13:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2020-03-04T13:33:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T13:33:09","slug":"speak-pirate-and-over-70-languages-with-mango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2020\/03\/04\/speak-pirate-and-over-70-languages-with-mango\/","title":{"rendered":"Speak Pirate (and over 70 languages) with Mango!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2906 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/2020\/03\/Mango-PirateDay-Twitter-Post-1200x630@2x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"965\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ahoy, matey! Belay your carousin\u2019 &#8221; [<em>Hey there! Stop your messing around<\/em>] and start learning to speak Pirate. Or choose from over 70 other languages and dialects on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.mangolanguages.com\">Mango<\/a>, <\/em>an online language learning resource available on the library&#8217;s <span id=\"hs_cos_wrapper_post_body\" class=\"hs_cos_wrapper hs_cos_wrapper_meta_field hs_cos_wrapper_type_rich_text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ubalt.libguides.com\/az.php?a=m\">A-Z list of databases<\/a><\/span><em>.<\/em> <span id=\"hs_cos_wrapper_post_body\" class=\"hs_cos_wrapper hs_cos_wrapper_meta_field hs_cos_wrapper_type_rich_text\"><em>Mango&#8217;s<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/mangolanguages.com\/available-languages\/learn-pirate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pirate course<\/a> is a fun way to discover the language-learning resources on <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.mangolanguages.com\"><em>Mango<\/em><\/a>. In addition to Pirate, you can learn other tongues, such as the different regional branches of Arabic (Egyptian, Iraqi, Levantine and Modern Standard) and Spanish (Castilian and Latin American), or even Russian slang. There are also specialty language courses that focus on particular fields of work such as Business Spanish, Medical Spanish and Legal Spanish. And if you want to perfect your English-speaking skills if English is your second language, <em>Mango&#8217;s<\/em> English course is taught from over 20 source languages.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2914 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/2020\/03\/mango-language-list-2019_Page_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1129\" height=\"1458\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2915 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/2020\/03\/mango-language-list-2019_Page_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1124\" height=\"1451\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each language module is presented by native speakers teaching vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and culture through listening and reading activities, with practical applications. For example, if you are a vegetarian, you can learn to ask in Italian if there is meat in a dish [<span class=\"___conversation__line\"><em>C&#8217;\u00e8 carne dentro? Sono vegetariana quindi non mangio carne<\/em>.<\/span>]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2890 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/2020\/03\/156_2397446.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"244\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.mangolanguages.com\"><em>Mango<\/em><\/a> is ideal if you are planning a study abroad semester or international travel for a conference. Or, if you&#8217;re just dreaming of an exotic vacation, explore all the languages <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.mangolanguages.com\"><em>Mango<\/em><\/a> has to offer and be inspired!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2949\" style=\"width: 503px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2949\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/2020\/03\/Beach-umbrellas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"371\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beach umbrellas, Chicken Island, Krabi, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And don&#8217;t forget you can impress your friends by speaking Pirate!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2886\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2886\" style=\"width: 462px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2886\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/2020\/03\/144_1565232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"465\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2886\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00b7Credit: TOUCHSTONE PICTURES \/ Album<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2910\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/2020\/03\/mango-languages-logo-high-res.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"84\" height=\"91\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ahoy, matey! Belay your carousin\u2019 &#8221; [Hey there! Stop your messing around] and start learning to speak Pirate. Or choose from over 70 other languages and dialects on Mango, an online language learning resource available on the library&#8217;s A-Z list <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2020\/03\/04\/speak-pirate-and-over-70-languages-with-mango\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Speak Pirate (and over 70 languages) with Mango!<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,525,128,1],"tags":[586,619,616,620],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2953,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions\/2953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}