Army news service (Sept. 30, 2005): U.S. Army to provide Rosetta Stone[R] foreign language training.The U.S. Army will make foreign-language training available at no cost to all active Army, National Guard, Reservists, and Department of Army civilian personnel worldwide through its Distributed Learning Distributed Learning means a method of instruction that relies primarily on indirect communication between students and teachers, including internet or other electronic-based delivery, teleconferencing or correspondence; (British Columbia, School Act, 2006). System's Army e-Learning, under the Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems. In the past, the high tempo of operations, limited resident school capacity, and the scarcity of contracted language training opportunities have worked against the Army's goal of fielding a force capable of engaging in basic communications with the local population in deployed areas. Now, with the help of Fairfield Language Technologies, creator of the computer-based language immersion The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. program Rosetta Stone Rosetta Stone: see under Rosetta. Rosetta Stone Inscribed stone slab, now in the British Museum, that provided an important key to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. , the Army anticipates it will be able to significantly increase basic foreign language skill-level across the force. "Critical foreign language capability and skills are increasingly important to our Army. Rosetta Stone provides the Army with an immediate, interactive language training tool to train our soldiers, leaders, and civilians for operational deployments and professional development," Brig Brig, town, Switzerland Brig (brēk), Fr. Brigue, town, Valais canton, S Switzerland, on the Rhône River, at the north entrance of the Simplon Tunnel. . Gen. James M. Milano, Director of Training, Army G-3/5/7. "To provide U.S. Army personnel around the world with the language instruction they need, the Army sought a proven Web-based foreign language training tool that could teach speaking, listening, reading, and writing for a variety of target languages utilizing an immersion methodology," says Tom Adams “Tom Adams” redirects here. For other people known as Tom Adams, see Tom Adams (disambiguation). Tom Adams (born 1926) is an illustrator most famous for his Agatha Christie paperback cover designs. , chief executive officer of Fairfield Language Technologies. "We're pleased that Rosetta Stone's philosophy, design, and effectiveness are providing the solution they were seeking." Rosetta Stone provides 26 state-of-the-art language courses through Army e-Learning, including Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Danish, Dutch, French, Farsi (Persian) German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. ), Spanish (Spain), Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Welsh. These Web-based foreign language training courses teach reading, writing, speaking, and listening with immersion, completely without translation. Access to Rosetta Stone will be available within 30 days. Army Knowledge On-line provides single sign-on An identification system that lets users log into multiple Web sites on the Internet with one username and password. Single sign-on systems are also used within an enterprise, enabling users to access all authorized resources in the local network using the same username and password. access for Army e-Learning. |
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