Fruitfully fluent

There is one website where you can both study for your French exam and pick up handy phrases for Talk Like a Pirate Day. Mango Languages offers online courses in many languages, including Urdu, Japanese and—no joke—pirate. These lessons are absolutely free through the do-it-yourself research tools section of the Sacramento Public Library website. You can choose to either learn basic survival phrases or take a more in-depth course. To supplement your learning, subscribe to the Mango Languages blog for titillating linguistic tidbits and travel stories. Savvy?