If you're interested in learning a new language, there are plenty of great ways to do it, but Mango Premiere is a new method that teaches you through foreign-language movies you'd love to watch anyway. Mango teaches you to understand both written text and speech with full subtitles in both languages as the movie plays.


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Mango Premiere has two modes: "Movie Mode" and "Engage Mode." The video above describes the differences pretty well, but movie mode essentially plays the film with subtitles in your native language and the language you want to learn, so you can begin to match up the words you see and hear. It's just like watching a foreign film, except in addition to reading your own subtitles, you see the language you're studying too. Engage mode actually takes you through the movie scene by scene, teaching and quizzing you along the way. If you pause the movie, you'll see more detail, and you can hover over words to see their phonetic spelling and hear audio. The tool also gives you cultural notes, so you can understand puns and in-jokes that may not be apparent to an outsider.


Mango Premiere is available now, starting with films in English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese. Here's the catch though: The tool is designed for groups, so it's not something you can just download. You'll have to get access to it through your local library. Mango has this useful ZIP-code lookup tool you can use to see if a library in your area has licensed Mango. If they have, you should be able to access it through your library's website. To read more about the program, hit the link below.

Update: The team at Mango have made one of their movies available to the public for anyone to try! You can check it out here.

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