Coming soon to DCPL’s Reference Databases Menu: Mango, a new language learning database that provides instruction in French, German, Greek, Japanese, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and Brazilian Portuguese. ESL (English as a Second Language) instruction is available for native speakers of Spanish, Portuguese, and Polish. Mango can be accessed from home or office with your library card and PIN.

Leaving the Reference Databases Menu after September 30 is Rosetta Stone. Although this program has been popular with our users, the company no longer licenses the database to public libraries. Tell Me More, which offers detailed instruction in Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Dutch, is still available in addition to Mango.

Do randomly placed apostrophes get under your skin?  Does it drive you crazy when someone uses a word that’s not really a word?  Would the phrase All “Natural”  on a sign make you a bit uncertain?  If so, then check out the following blogs.  They’re a great place to commiserate with others for grammar transgressions–and you can even send in [...]