| According to the Government, I am considered | | | | renewing there contract with Rosetta Stone, Ltd and |
| English and French bilingual and they think this | | | | making it available to over 1.4 million Army personnel |
| because they issued me a certificate, which said so, | | | | worldwide. As part of this contract the company put |
| upon completing High School. I hold inside a deep dark | | | | out a military specific program, the Arabic - Military |
| secret however...I'm not. Although I can communicate | | | | Edition, to help all the active Army, Army Reserve, |
| in French on a basic level, I struggle to structure a | | | | Army National Guard and Army civilian personnel that |
| proper phrase or sentence in response to someone | | | | currently serve. This is one huge endorsement if you |
| that speaks to me in that language, so I consider | | | | ask me, but I needed to know more. It may help |
| myself far from bilingual. I actually lost one of my | | | | others but how do I know that it will help my |
| first jobs years ago because it entailed speaking to | | | | circumstance and one little boy look up to his father? |
| native French people, and I just could not do it, even | | | | I answered the who, the what, and the why, and |
| though I tried as best I could. As a result of losing | | | | now I needed the where and the how. |
| this job, I moved to a place where French wasn't | | | | The where is actually pretty easy to answer, |
| used as far as the eye could see, so basically I ran | | | | Rosetta Stone Language Learning Software offers |
| away. The other secret I have...I regret never having | | | | online courses as well as CD-Rom versions that you |
| kept at it. I discovered recently that it would actually | | | | just pop into your computer, install, and you are |
| serve a purpose now, but not for work, recreation | | | | ready to go and learn. The how is much more |
| or even a romantic trip to France. On November 4th | | | | important, and it is so simple a child could explain it, |
| of 2007, my wife gave birth to our son. | | | | after all it was developed with a child's mind and mind |
| As any new parent will tell you, they can keep you | | | | set. To get slightly technical Rosetta Stone Language |
| up pretty late for the first little while, and I found | | | | Learning Software uses there copyrighted Dynamic |
| myself lying in bed, trying to sleep when I saw a | | | | Immersion Method. It is similar to the way a newborn |
| commercial on TV. It was for the Rosetta Stone | | | | learns his or her first language. When you read to |
| Language Learning Software, and probably much to | | | | them and point at a picture or object and say out |
| the companies dismay, I had never heard of them. It | | | | loud what it is, they mimic you. When you look at, |
| again reminded me of my regret of never having | | | | say a small stuffed animal and identify what it is, in |
| kept up my other official language to where I could | | | | my case a stuffed duck and say duck, they learn |
| pass it along to my newborn when the time comes. | | | | that the object you are referring to is a duck, and |
| We live in a true melting pot, and everyone that | | | | not a goose. The Rosetta Stone Software functions |
| understands and communicates in a second language | | | | much the same way by using thousands of real life |
| knows how it benefits his or her life. I'm saddened to | | | | images to convey the meaning of not only spoken |
| say that I will never be able to pass on the French | | | | but written words and phrases the same way. In the |
| language to my son, as it may benefit him in some | | | | carefully sequenced structure, and well as employing |
| way for any of the above reasons I laid out, or for | | | | native speakers of the individual language you are |
| one that I might not even have considered until he | | | | learning, and providing instant feedback, you learn the |
| expresses his own interests. I can however rectify | | | | new language without the ineffective memorisation, |
| my shortcoming, and I'm not limited to French | | | | simple translation, or tedious grammar drills that other |
| anymore either. I can actually choose from, at | | | | language learning programs or even modern day |
| present, 30 different language offerings. How you | | | | classrooms use. Imagine re-educating ourselves by |
| ask? | | | | first de-educating and then learning at our children's |
| My late night television watching offers the answer, | | | | level in the same way they learn there first language |
| The Rosetta Stone Language Learning Software. The | | | | like there native tongue. |
| next morning after a rather sleepless night, I decided | | | | As a side note, I purchased the product, the French |
| to study the claims made by this company that I had | | | | Language Learning Edition in fact, not long after my |
| never heard of. To give a little background | | | | research. I really meant it when I said I regretted not |
| information, The Rosetta Stone Language Learning | | | | being able to pass on another language to my son. I |
| Software was created by Fairfield Language | | | | also had a personal selfish reason, there was a |
| Technologies in 1992 and is being used by West | | | | certificate packed away in a box that I really want |
| Point, NASA, and approximately 10,000 schools right | | | | to feel like I earned, but felt guilty that it was nothing |
| now. Recent press releases issued by the company, | | | | more than a lie printed on a very expensive piece of |
| and independently confirmed, have announced that | | | | paper. I recently found it and am proud to say that |
| after a pilot project, the program has also been | | | | what is written on it will eventually be true, thanks to |
| made available to U.S. Immigration and Customs | | | | the Rosetta Stone Language Learning Software. |
| Enforcement employees in not only the good old U S | | | | Merci pour lire cet article. The only way you'll know |
| of A, but in other countries as well, and it doesn't | | | | that what I just wrote is right, is to test the |
| stop there. A more current release has the U.S. Army | | | | software out for yourself. |