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Learn key phrases before you go abroad

Free Before You Know It® Software Quickly Teaches Business and Consumer Travelers Essential Language in Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, and more.

Nashua, N.H., March 22, 2005 - Just in time for the summer travel season, Transparent Language, a leading provider of language learning software, is offering a free set of vital travel phrases in a variety of languages. The Before You Know It program and travel phrases are available to download for both PC and Mac at www.byki.com/travelcards. Complete with audio for pronunciation, this intelligent flashcard software makes learning a foreign language effective and fun.

Before You Know It provides an easy and effective way for tourists, business travelers, or anyone traveling abroad to rapidly learn critical words and phrases in each language by progressing through four stages of learning. As the user moves through each stage, Before You Know It tracks their progress, recognizes achievement and reviews the words and phrases that the learner is having the most difficulty with. Compatible with laptops and PDAs, travelers can even learn on the go.

Before You Know It Lite and travel cards are available at no charge to anyone with an internet connection.

"The only way to understand the power of Before You Know It is to actually use it," said Michael Quinlan, president of Transparent Language. "We created the Lite version so people could experience it without having to make a financial commitment."

Each day over 1,000 users are downloading this free Lite version of Before You Know It. In addition to the included content users can download additional flash card lists in a number of languages as well as lists to learn other subjects, like Chemistry and Math. Before You Know It is available for Windows and Macintosh, in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Russian, Arabic, Irish, and Latin. Visit www.byki.com for more information on Before You Know It technology and products.

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.