Mango Languages is a language learning database available for current

Bow Valley College students, staff and faculty.

Mango languages is a language learning tool that provides a step-by-step lesson

plans for 63 languages including English.

• Access Mango Languages through BVC Databases• Create a Mango language account• Open your email and check for an email from

Mango and click the activation link.• You personal Mango Language account keeps

record of your progress though the various languages courses.

• Use Mango mobile app for your iPad, iPhone or Android phone using the same account.

Accessing Mango Languages

Access Mango Languages through BVC Databases

Username: student or employee ID number preceded by the 3 letters "BVC", e.g. BVC123456

Password: last 4 digits of your phone number

Requirements to get started with Mango Languages:

• computer with speakers and a microphone• Internet connection• Mango Language account

Create an account or choose Quick Start option

Create an account

Quick Start

• Mango is fun and easy to use• Fast and easy way to learn foreign languages • Mango structures lessons around practical

conversations• Mango supports an app for iPhones and iPads

Complete a Mango course and get ready to converse on the following topics:

• Express Gratitude• Greet People• Make Small Talk with Strangers• Say Goodbye• Ask/Tell if Someone Speaks a Language• Ask/Tell Where Someone is From• Get Someone’s Attention• Ask Someone’s Name• Introduce Yourself• Ask for Directions• Get Help Finding Places Using a Map• Identify Important Places and Facilities

Around Town• Count Up To 99• Negotiate Basic Transactions at Stores• Gain the Insight into the Food Culture• Order Drinks And Meals• Understand Common Phrases Used at

Restaurants

• Deal with Large Numbers• Handle Currency with Ease• Ride a Taxi and Pay the Fare• Accept/Decline Help• Ask/Tell What Trouble One Is In• Gain Knowledge of Emergency Services• Ask/Answer What a Word or Phrase

Means• Communicate One’s Ability to

Understand Something• Express Gratitude• Request to Repeat, Slow Down, or

Speak Up• Ask/Tell What Something Is• Give/Respond to a Compliment• Request/Agree to Speak in Particular

Language

Out of 63 languages available, choose the language you want to learn today.

Learn Anywhere, Anytime with Mango Mobile

The Mango Languages’ iPhone App is Ready to Go!

• Mango Mobile Library Edition is the Mango Languages application for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad

• Free from the App Store• Available for Bow Valley College student/staff/faculty.• Create a Mango account. • Download from the Mango App from the App Store • Launch the app and login for unlimited access both on and offline• Mango app works same as the online version• Touch the screen to get answers, hear pronunciations, and learn interactive

content.• All Mango Basic and Complete courses are available via the Mango Mobile

Library Edition app!

Foreign Languages for English Speakers:

• Arabic • Egypt• Lebanon• Iraq• Armenia Armenian• Azerbaijan Azerbaijani• Bangladesh Bengali• China Chinese• Hong Kong• China• Croatia Croation• Czech Republic Czech• Denmark Danish• Afghanistan Dari• Netherlands Dutch• Iran Farsi (Persian)• Finland Finnish• France French• France

• Canada• Germany German• Greece Greek • Greece• Greece• Greece• Haiti Haitian Creole• United States Hawaiian• Israel Hebrew• India Hindi• Hungary Hungarian• Iceland Icelandic• Indonesia Indonesian• Ireland Irish• Italy Italian• Japan Japanese• Kazakhstan Kazakh• South Korea Korean 

Foreign Languages for English Speakers:• Latin• Malaysia Malay• India Malayalam• Norway Norwegian• Afghanistan Pashto• Poland Polish• Brazil • Portuguese/Brazilian• Pakistan Punjabi• Romania Romania• Russia Russian• Scotland Scottis Gaelic• Serbia Serbian• Slovakia Sloval• Mexico Spanish• Mexico

• Spain• Tanzania Swahili• Sweden Swedish• Philippines Tagalog• Sri Lanka Tamil• India Telugu• Thailand Thai• Turkey Turkish• Ukraine Ukrainian• Pakistan Urdu• Vietnam Vietnamese• Israel Yiddish

English Courses for non-English Speakers:

• English for Arabic (Egyptian) speakers• English for Arabic (MSA) speakers• English for Armenian speakers• English for Chinese (Cantonese)

speakers• English for Chinese (Mandarin)

speakers• English for French speakers• English for German speakers• English for Greek speakers  

• English for Italian speakers• English for Japanese speakers• English for Korean speakers• English for Polish speakers• English for Portuguese (Brazil)

speakers• English for Russian speakers• English for Spanish (Latin America)

speakers• English for Turkish speakers• English for Vietnamese speakers