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Leading language learning company helps thousands say CIAO! with its free winter games vocabulary tool!

Every day, over 1,000 new users experience the power of Before You Know It

Nashua, N.H., January 25, 2006 - The thrill of victory and agony of defeat is set to take center stage again as our sport-loving attention is tur ned toward the frigid spectacle of the Winter Games. This time around the bronze, silver, and gold will be handed out in the snowy Alps of Italy.

In case you don't know your "salto"(jump) from your "pista"(track), Transparent Language, the leader in language learning software is offering a free download of its Before You Know It vocabulary program with key Italian, winter sports words and phrases. To access the free download of Italian Before You Know It - Winter Games Edition, Torino-bound travelers and armchair athletes should visit www.byki.com/wintergames.

In addition, through the end of the Winter Games, any purchase of the Italian Before You Know It Deluxe edition download will include an extra set of hundreds of Games-specific terms and vocabulary.

"The fact that 1,000's of users a day download Before You Know It Lite is testimony to how much fun and value people get out of the program," said Michael Quinlan, president of Transparent Language. "We created the winter games edition because we knew no matter what language our users are currently learning they would want to brush up on their Italian in time for the Winter Games."

Before You Know It provides an easy and effective way for tourists, business travelers, or anyone to rapidly learn key words and phrases in over 15 languages by progressing through the four-step Perfect Recall Learning process. As the user moves through each step, Before You Know It tracks their progress, recognizes achievement and reviews the words and phrases that require the most focus for each unique user. Compatible with laptops and PDAs, travelers can even learn on the go.

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, from www.byki.com.

Before You Know It is available for Windows and Macintosh, in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Russian, Arabic, Irish, Latin, Malay, Serbian, and Albanian. 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.