Three Reasons for Your Library

to Choose

Transparent Language Online

over

Mango Languages™

Transparent Language Online for Libraries

3 Reasons to Switch to TLO

“My library offers Mango. Why switch to Transparent Language Online?”

Transparent Language Online offers three key advantages:

1. More learning material

2. Training in all four language skills

3. Sustainment of learned material

Transparent Language Online offers more:

1. Languages

2. Learning material for each language

3. Learning activities

4. English learning material

Reason 1: More Learning Material

Reason 1: More Learning Material

Transparent Language Online offers 50% more languages than Mango.*

Transparent Language Online includes learning material for more than 90 languages.

* As of August 1, 2014

Mango is really just a course focused almost entirely on beginners. What happens when you finish it? Where do you go from there?

Transparent Language Online is a multi-faceted sustainment system, designed for ongoing learning with:

• Hundreds of hours of learning material

• Beginner to intermediate content

• Supplemental learning resources

• Language retention

Reason 1: More Learning Material

Both systems have beginner courses that are similar in scope and focus.

Transparent Language Online Essentials Course

Mango Complete Course

11 units 10 chapters

~700 items broken into 33 lessons ~700 items broken into 59 lessons

Everyday and travel-oriented themes Everyday and travel-oriented themes

Reason 1: More Learning Material

But we don’t stop there! Transparent Language Online goes beyond the beginner course:

• Quick Start Mini-Course: 100 of the most useful words and phrases in a quick and efficient learning system

• Byki Supplemental Vocabulary: Over 2,300 vocabulary flash cards in dozens of useful categories

• Extensive grammar reference and instructional videos

• Language specific blogs

• Facebook pages, and YouTube channels

Reason 1: More Learning Material

16+ learning activities:

Mango

6 learning activities:

1. Dialog review

2. Preview card

3. Culture Note

4. Recognition card

5. Grammar Note

6. Pronunciation

Transparent Language Online provides a much wider variety of learning activities.

1. Preview It

2. Recognize It

3. Recognize It write

4. Produce It

5. Produce It Write

6. Pronunciation

7. Listening Recognition

8. Multiple Choice Audio

9. Four Square

10. Gameshow

11. Dictation

12. Unscramble

13. Grammar Video

14. Alphabet Explorer

15.Power Slides

16. Word of the Day

Transparent Language Online

Reason 1: More Learning Material

Transparent Language Online has more English learning material than any other system.

• Beginner English courses for speakers of 24 languages

• Intermediate English course

• Which is English learning game

Reason 1: More Learning Material

Transparent Language Online has beginner English for speakers of 24 languages:

Arabic, Chinese Mandarin, Czech, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese

Mango has beginner English for speakers of 17 languages: Arabic, Armenian, Cantonese, Egyptian Arabic, Mandarin, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese

Reason 1: More Learning Material

Transparent Language Online includes an Intermediate English course:

• Immersion format for learners with developing English skills

• Dialogue-based: 55 to 70 hours of learning material

• 10 Units teaching content for common, everyday situations

• Targeted at the largest segment of English learners in the US

Mango has no intermediate level English course.

Reason 1: More Learning Material

Which is English game: • Focused on intermediate learners

• Fun and addictive

• Builds vocabulary, grammar, and colloquial expression

Mango has no intermediate level English games or activities.

Reason 1: More Learning Material

Reason 2: All Four Language Skills

For optimal language learning, all four skills must be developed.

Listening Speaking

Reading Writing

Would your library buy a math tutoring system that only covered addition, subtraction, and multiplication?

Why use a language learning solution that leaves out writing?

Reason 2: All Four Language Skills

Only Transparent Language Online enables learners to type in the language they are learning.

Mango provides no capability or instruction for typing.

Reason 2: All Four Language Skills

Writing and typing in a foreign language can be a helpful communication skill:

• Writing is a critical skill in today’s world of text messaging and email

• Writing helps eliminate issues with accents and rough pronunciation

• Writing reduces ambiguity

• Writing a word makes it easier to identify later when reading

Reason 2: All Four Language Skills

“But I only want to speak the language. So why learn to type?”

• Typing activities integrated into the learning process train the learner’s memory while building writing skills.

• Typing activities engage the brain in new ways that reinforce memorization of the items learned, further embedding them in the learner’s short-term and long-term memory.

• The typing activities included in Transparent Language Online ensure retention of the material learned.

Reason 2: All Four Language Skills

Installing and using non-Roman scripts can be a challenge. Transparent Language Online eliminates script difficulties.

The ability to display and type the native script or alphabet is built in to our technology for every language; there’s no need to activate it in the operating system.

This is a huge advantage to users on school or library systems who don’t have admin rights.

Reason 2: All Four Language Skills

Reason 3: Sustainment

3 Aspects of Learning • Initial acquisition – Learning

• Enhancement – Building Skills

• Sustainment – Using

Transparent language Online features the “Learned Items” retention system to

sustain learned material.

One of the key struggles with language learning is maintaining what you have learned. The “Learned Items” feature in Transparent Language Online keeps track of vocabulary that a user has learned, and refreshes stale items.

Mango does not provide support for sustaining what you have learned. Your only choice would be to repeat the course again.

Reason 3: Sustainment

Quick Steps to Refresh • Learned Items presents the user

with vocabulary items that he or she has not seen recently.

• If the user knows the item, it is tucked away for a future check.

• If the user does not remember the item, Learned Items refreshes it, adding it back in to the rotation of new items.

Reason 3: Sustainment

3 Reasons to Switch to TLO

To summarize, Transparent Language Online offers your patrons:

1. More learning opportunities and resources:

• More languages and more ESL

• More supplemental resources in each language

• More learning activities to engage users

2. Development of all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing

3. Sustainment of learned material with the Learned Items refresh and retention system.

Thank you for viewing this presentation. Visit our website for more information about Transparent Language Online for your library.

www.transparent.com/libraries

This presentation necessarily includes subjective opinions of the author, Transparent Language, Inc. The foreign language market seems to generate more than its fair share of hype and overstatement, so we encourage readers to verify our assertions, and take the time to look and compare for themselves.

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