subject: Rosetta Stone and Cheap Rosetta Stone Spanish (Spain) Version [print this page] Rosetta Stone's mysterious history and the Rosetta Stone language learning software.
Rosetta Stone is the name of a stone and it is an Ancient Egyptian artifact which is providing the key to modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Rosetta Stone is 114.4 centimetres (45.0 in) high at its highest point, 72.3 cm (28.5 in) wide, and 27.9 cm (11.0 in) thick. The stone weighs approximately 760 kilograms (1,700 lb), and is unfinished on its sides and reverse.The front surface has been smoothed and its inscriptions are lightly incised. The Rosetta Stone was regarded as the most awesome language teaching material at that time. The stone contains three parts of text, the top register is inscribed with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the second is written using ancient Egyptian Demotic script, and the bottom is rendered in Greek. It is pity that some of the Greek text is lost from the bottom-right corner that is missing, and only a third of he top set of inscriptions is left from the original.
The Rosetta Stone has been exhibited almost continuously in the British Museum since 1802. Toward the end of World War I, in 1917, the Museum was concerned about heavy bombing in London and moved the stone to safety along with other portable objects of value. The stone spent the next two years in a station on the Postal Tube Railway 50 feet (15 m) below the ground at Holborn.
People in ancient might learnt second language through this Rosetta Stone. As now, lots of people learn foreign languages with Rosetta Stone language software which is offered the same name of the magic stone. The Rosetta Stone language learning software uses a combination of iamges, text, and sound, with difficulty levels increasing as the student progresses, in order to teach various vocabulary terms and grammatical functions intuitively, without drill or translation. This sort of software is designed to teach languages the way first languages are learned. The entire series of this language learning software contains 31 languages learning, and Spanish from Spain or Latin America is the top seller among them.
Rosetta Stone Spanish (Spain) Version and Rosetta Stone Spanish (Latin America) Version perspectively contains different language difficulty level from One to Five. The sale point of voice recognition and audio companion makes this sort of language software be the heat and popular for people. Rosetta Stone's success are recorded as it has won a number of awards from software magazine and assciations concerned with language learning such as textbook publishers and homeschooling magazines, among them the Gold Awards from Best CD-ROMs Used in School and Best CD-ROM for Language Learning i-Magic Awards in 1996 and the Best Software in Second Language Foreign Landuage Learning Program annual awards by ComputED magazine in 1994 and 1996.The name of the method of "Dynamic Immersion method" help with Rosetta Stone (software) be among the most effective languages learning solutions.
Compared to languages courses, Rosetta Stone language software is relatively a less investment in language a foreign language though it still cost a certain amount of money. However, if you buy the package of software containing one to five, it will save you lots of money.
Rosetta Stone and Cheap Rosetta Stone Spanish (Spain) Version
