The Rosetta Stone
The Rosetta Stone is an Ancient Egyptian artifact which was instrumental in advancing modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. The stone is a Ptolemaic era stele with carved text made up of three translations of a single passage: two in Egyptian language scripts (hieroglyphic and Demotic) and one in classical Greek. It was created in 196 BC, discovered by the French in 1799 at Rosetta and contributed greatly to the deciphering of the principles of hieroglyph writing in 1822 by the British scientist Thomas Young and the French scholar Jean-Fran?ois Champollion. Comparative translation of the stone assisted in understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing. The text on the stone is a decree from Ptolemy V, describing the repeal of various taxes and instructions to erect statues in temples. Two Egyptian-Greek multilingual steles predated Ptolemy V's Rosetta Stone: Ptolemy III's Decree of Canopus, 239 BC, and Ptolemy IV's Decree of Memphis, ca 218 BC. It is of 1.14 height and 0.73 width.
The Rosetta Stone Software
Rosetta Stone is proprietary language-learning software produced by Rosetta Stone, Ltd. Its title and its logo refer to the Rosetta Stone, an artifact inscribed in multiple languages that helped Jean-Fran?ois Champollion to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics. The software is created by Rosetta Stone Ltd. headquartered in Arlington County, Virginia.
The Rosetta Stone software uses a combination of images, text, and sound, with difficulty levels increasing as the student progresses, in order to teach various vocabulary terms and grammatical functions intuitively, without drills or translation. They call this the "Dynamic Immersion method". The goal is to teach languages the way first languages are learned.
The Rosetta Stone company provides more than 30 languages of courses, such as Rosetta Stone Spanish (Latin America),Rosetta Stone Arabic, Rosetta Stone Italian, Rosetta Stone English, Rosetta Stone Korean, Rosetta Stone Chinese and so on.
The Rosetta Stone language learning softwares are popular with the language learners for its funny courses, and the effective methods it provides.
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