Lesson 2 Mango

The Mango site is amazing.  I viewed the videos on the Next Generation of Language Learning through Mango Premiere which consists of learning a language through film.   FAQ informed me that through a partner company PIM, young children may also learn a language.  I would like to  investigate this further.

As a young child I had the opportunity to listen to my dad, my grandma and his siblings speak in Norwegian. They enjoyed speaking in Norwegian around the children as we never knew what they were talking about!
I am proud of my Norwegian heritage.

Norway has an interesting history.  There about five million Norwegian speakers in Norway with some in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Canada, the US, Spain and the UK.  The Norwegian alphabet has many similarities to the English alphabet as far as looks and sounds.  Norwegian students can choose to learn either Nynorsk (New Norwegian) or Riksmal now known as Bokmal (Book Language).

My beloved Norwegian dad passed away on May 12, 1992 at the age of 65.  We proudly displayed the Norwegian flag in his casket as May 17 is Norwegian Independence Day ( syttende mai ).

I worked my way through the 56 parts of lesson one and would have loved to share what I learned with my dad.  The Mango lesson for Norwegian was taught in a fun and easy manner.  I believe it would be fairly easy for a student with reading ability or any adult to learn a language with Mango. I enjoyed the lesson and felt my time was well spent.  I didn't find anything negative about Mango with Norwegian.  Another language might be more difficult.

I look forward to sharing Mango with my students and their parents.  A story in the local paper sharing the electronic resources available through the South Dakota State Library would be an asset to the community.