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LANGUAGE LEARNING LEADER OFFERS EDUCATORS' SOFTWARE TO ALL ACTFL ATTENDEES

Innovative software assists in vocabulary teaching efforts

Nashua, N.H., November 18, 2005 - Transparent Language, a leader in language learning solutions, today kicks off ACTFL with a promise to provide all attendees with a free copy of Before You Know It Educator Edition.

"We are thrilled to offer Before You Know It Educator Edition to all ACTFL attendees," said Chuck McGonagle, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "Before You Know It is a revolutionary learning tool, we are committed to providing the Educator Edition to as many teachers as possible because we know that it will help to bolster their classroom activities."

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.
  1. 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.
  2. Know It - Reinforce the learning by typing in the English meaning.
  3. Produce It - The user now starts generating the foreign language, as they see the English the user thinks of the foreign language.
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.

Regularly priced at $50, the Before You Know It Educator Edition assists teachers with the challenging task of helping students learn and retain information. It includes over 1,000 common words and 250 essential phrases for each of four languages - Spanish, French, Italian, Latin, and German. Teachers can create their own flash card vocabulary list and share them with students. The Student CD, which is included in the Educator Edition, may be used to install Before You Know It Lite at no additional charge on any school or student computer. For information on the Before You Know It Educator Edition please visit www.byki.com/educators.

About Transparent Language, Inc.

America plays a prominent role in world affairs, and yet our longstanding English-centricity has left us weaker than we should be in our ability to communicate globally. At Transparent Language, we attempt to correct this problem by developing language-learning resources and systems that deliver more rapid, reliable, and engaging language learning to those who need language skills for work or school, as well as those who simply find joy in learning and using other languages. Each day we use our expertise in the research and practice of language learning to build programs that are licensed for use by all personnel of Foreign Service Institute, Defense Language Institute, US Special Operations Command, US Marine Corps, US Navy, and many other government organizations, as well as by thousands of schools, hundreds of public libraries, and millions of individual users.