Tongue-Tied

Interested in brushing up on your language skills or learning a language for a trip? Try the library’s database Mango Languages to improve or learn a foreign language. It offers a variety of different languages from the more traditionally taught Spanish, French, and German to the less frequently taught Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, and Russian among others (Farsi. Wouldn’t it be cool to speak Farsi?).

When you click on the link from the library’s homepage, you’ll be prompted to enter your Barrington Area Library card number and PIN (usually the last four digits of your home phone number). If you don’t have a Barrington Library card you can use Mango Languages in the library.

You can create a login on Mango Languages so that you can track your progress and move to more advanced lessons as you get more practice. If you don’t want to create a login (one too many password to remember) you can still do lessons but you will have to start from the beginning each time you enter Mango Languages.