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Great for assisting with learning a foreign language or to start a new language from scratch.

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Page 1: Overview of Mango and Ancestry

Great for assisting with learning a foreign language or to start a new

language from scratch.

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Over 45 Different Languages offered for speakers of English. ESL courses

offered in 14 languages.

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• Mango offers both basic (for short conversations) and complete lessons (an in depth program that teaches comprehensive grammar)

• Lessons are available for download or you can set up an account to mark your progress.

• Library Edition is also available as an Android or iPhone app which allows for ‘on-the-go’ translations.

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Setting Up an account

• Creating a Mango language account is very easy. It requires an email account and password.

• Once an account has been established, lessons can be stopped and started at your leisure.

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Lessons

• Begin with very basic words and phrases:

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Lessons

• More advanced phrases are introduced conversationally

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Lessons

• Additional grammar and cultural notes appear when necessary

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Mango Library App

• The app is very easy to use and has many of the same features as the full version

• Login information is the same as well, to help keep track of the lesson plans

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Great tool for tracing family lines and genealogical studies.

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Overview

• Search historical records such as census, birth and death, and immigration lists

• Library edition has some minor differences from the mass market version—including differences in databases searched and inability to construct online family trees

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Searching

• The best search techniques with Ancestry tend to be more broad in nature.

• Soundex and wild card search techniques are also available.

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Results

• Most results contain original scanned documents with ability to scan entirety of original item

• Family names and related documents are linked within the record to provide more relevant results