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• Mango offers interactive learning in over 70 languages, including Spanish, English, many other widely-spoken languages, and even in ancient languages of high relevance to theological study, such as Latin, Koine Greek, and Biblical Hebrew.  You can choose lessons based on your level, and the study of vocabulary and grammar is incorporated into organic conversations.  This resource is available to all Kenrick seminarians, faculty, and staff, but setting up a personal account is recommended in order to save your progress and preferences.  The library can assist you with setup and navigation.  Mango has also produced a 7-minute, online tutorial that provides a useful overview of features.  After setting up your Kenrick-affiliated account, you can access Mango from anywhere through a downloadable mobile app, available through Apple App Store or Google Play.       

DeepL is a free, online translator.  Though it features fewer languages than Google Translate, it tends to be more accurate and better able to pick up the nuances of idiomatic expressions and turns of phrase.  DeepL supports voice input (i.e. you can speak into it) and offers translations of text from photos and images.  Available as a mobible app through Apple App Store or Google Play. 

Google Translate is the most widely-used online translator.  Free to use, it is available as a mobile app, and is integrated with Google Chrome, the world's most popular web browser.  It also supports voice input and it provides text-to-speech translation functions for many languages.  Its accuracy varies greatly by language, and it sometimes offers inaccurate or garbled translations into English of inflected or tonal languages.  Available as a mobile app through Apple App Store or Google Play.   

Wiktionary is a free-content multilingual dictionary.  It aims to describe all words of all languages using definitions and descriptions in English.  It has grown beyond a standard dictionary and now includes a thesaurus, a rhyme guide, phrase books, language statistics and extensive appendices.  Wiktionary aims to include not only the definition of a word, but also enough information to really understand it.  Thus etymologies, pronunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations are included.  Wiktionary also includes grammatical tables of conjugations and declensions for relevant theological languages, including Latin, Koine Greek, and Biblical Hebrew.