Nashua, N.H., August 8, 2005 – Transparent Language, a leader in language learning solutions, today announced
the latest version of
Before You Know It ®, the fast, personalized way to learn a language has been on the
Apple.com OSX Top 10 downloads since May. The site was set up to mark the launch of Mac OS 10.4 “Tiger”,
but Before You Know It has remained a popular download for OSX users (must be running 10.2 or higher with
Safari installed).
The Lite (free) version of the product is available for download at www. byki.com for both Mac and Windows
and also at
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/home_learning/ for Macs running on the OSX .
“We are thrilled to have been so successful with our Apple downloads,” said David Meiselman, Director of
Online Marketing. “We feel that
Before You Know It is a revolutionary learning tool and hope that everyone will
have the chance to use it.”
Before You Know It is the fast, personalized way to learn a language. Experts agree that words and small phrases
are the building blocks of language. The innovative flash card methodology in Before You Know It lets learners
see and hear the foreign language, with native speaker pronunciation, and then leads them through the 4 step
Perfect Recall learning cycle.
The four steps of the Perfect Recall learning cycle in
Before You Know It monitor the user’s responses and
constantly adjust to focus on the more challenging vocabulary.
- Recognize It – As the user flips through the flash cards they see and hear the foreign
language word or phase building their ability to automatically recall the meaning.
- Know It – Reinforce the learning by typing in the English meaning.
- Produce It – The user now starts generating the foreign language, as they see the English the
user thinks of the foreign language.
- Own It– Finally type the foreign language when the English is shown.
Once the user has completed all four steps of the program they will have Perfect Recall guaranteed. If they test
the material they have studied in
Before You Know It and their recall is not 100%, they can return the product for
a full refund of the purchase price.
Before You Know It Deluxe and
Before You Know It Lite are available for Windows, and Mac OSX, for
Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Russian, Arabic, Irish and Latin.
Visit
www.byki.com or call 603-262-6300 for more information.
Transparent Language provides language learning solutions to the consumer, education, government,
and corporate markets. Since 1991, Transparent Language has helped millions of individuals learn new
languages quickly, easily, and effectively. Transparent Language’s products are also used in more than
12,000 civilian and government educational institutions, including major universities and government
facilities, such as the Defense Language Institute and Foreign Service Institute. Call 800-567-9619 or
visit
www.transparent.com for more information.
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