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Mango Languages offers online instruction for 63 languages. Watch videos, listen to dialogs, and review flash cards are just a few exercises available through the service. Create a personal account with Mango Languages to track your progress.
Languages available through Mango
| American Sign Language | Finnish | Japanese | Shanghainese |
| Arabic, Egyptian | French, Canadian | Javanese | Slovak |
| Arabic, Iraqi | French, France | Kazakh | Spanish (Latin American) |
| Arabic, Levantine | German | Korean | Spanish (Spain) |
| Arabic, MSA | Greek, Ancient | Latin | Swahili |
| Armenian | Greek, Koine | Malay | Swedish |
| Azerbaijani | Greek, Modern | Malayalam | Tagalog |
| Bengali | Haitian Creole | Norwegian | Tamil |
| Cherokee | Hawaiian | Pashto | Telugu |
| Chinese (Mandarin) | Hebrew, Biblical | Pirate (Yarr) | Thai |
| Croatian | Hebrew, Modern | Polish | Turkish |
| Czech | Hindi | Portuguese (Brazil) | Tuvan |
| Danish | Hungarian | Punjabi | Ukrainian |
| Dari | Icelandic | Romanian | Urdu |
| Dutch | Igbo | Russian | Uzbek |
| Dzongkha | Indonesian | Scottish Gaelic | Vietnamese |
| English | Irish | Serbian | Yiddish |
| Farsi (Persian) | Italian | Shakespeare English |
Rosetta Stone for Libraries, a recognized leader in language instruction, offers a proven immersion method for learning 30 languages. Core lessons available to build reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. Focused activities refine grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and more.
Getting Started
- Click on the Rosetta Stone logo.
- Select Rosetta Stone Library Solutions and create a Rosetta Stone profile and choose a language to learn.
- Select “Launch Rosetta Stone Language Lessons Version 3”
- Personalized Rosetta Stone home page will allow you to begin lessons, view courses, track your progress and explore all activities for each unit and lesson
Learning Languages: Rosetta Stone is an app available for Apple iPhone and IPad and Android devices that works with Irving Public Library's Rosetta Stone service. To use the app, users must first create a Rosetta Stone account through a web browser. Once the app is installed, click on Enterprise and Education Learners to access the content. Our organization's Rosetta Stone account is s6719059.
Languages available through Rosetta Stone
| Arabic, MSA | Hebrew, Modern | Portuguese, Brazil |
| Chinese, Mandarin | Hindi | Russian |
| Dari | Indonesian | Spanish, Latin America |
| Dutch | Irish | Spanish, Spain |
| English, American | Italian | Swahili |
| English, British | Japanese | Swedish |
| Farsi (Persian) | Korean | Tagalog |
| French | Latin | Turkish |
| German | Pashto | Urdu |
| Greek, Modern | Polish | Vietnamese |
Websites
BBC Languages
Free online language courses, audio, video and games to help you learn Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and more.
Destinos
Fifty-two half-hour telenovela episodes available online from the Annenberg Foundation. Destinos teaches speaking, listening, and comprehension skills in Spanish.
Deutsche Welle
With the free German courses from Deutsche Welle, you can choose the learning style that suits you best: e-learning at the computer, with short videos, audio courses or podcasts, or with texts and worksheets you can print out.
Duolingo
Learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, or Portuguese.
Learn a Language
Learn a Language is a resource from the U.S. Institute of Languages with free online language lessons, interactive games, and fun lessons. Learn Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, French, Japanese, or Chinese.