I’m a family nurse practitioner in a primary-care clinic in New York City. My patients are considered underserved—which isn’t a comment on my abilities, it just means they have…
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A Whole New World in Language
Being a 15-year-old girl in search of her place in the world, and wondering what the future holds for me, I discover Rosetta Stone. This has been one the…
Read MoreReflections on HaMakuya
Tourism and Translation
No soy un guía de turismo, pero interpreto a uno en la televisión.
The sentence above is a word-for-word literal translation of the (tweaked-to-fit-the-context) English expression “I’m not a tour…
Read MoreRosetta Stone in Iraq
The U.S. Army has made Rosetta Stone available for it’s soldiers for years. During my second tour in Iraq in 2005-2006, I was looking through the Army website and…
Read MoreRosetta Stone Software Helping Humanitarian Agency in Bringing Aid to War Torn Nations
We here at Mercy Ships have used your French lessons to prepare our team leaders for traveling to war torn African nations. The violence in Africa requires…
Read MoreLove Rosetta Stone and the Italian Language I’m Learning!
Ciao! I purchased Rosetta Stone Italian Levels 1 & 2 a couple of months ago. I’ve been hearing good things about Rosetta Stone for a long time…
Read MoreRosetta Stone: Up and Running
I can honestly say that by the time the Rosetta Stone software was loaded on the computers, I was exhausted. I was also unsure of how the language-learning project…
Read MoreLinguistics Breakthrough!!!
I’m a UCLA graduate with a Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics. I’ve studied a variety of foreign languages for years, and…
Friends and Neighbours
Growing up bilingual, I was aware from a young age of “false friends.” Not the kind who borrow money and never pay you back, but words that look or…
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