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Learn Irish for Free on iPhone

Free Download of Byki Irish for iPhone App on St. Patrick's Day

Nashua, N.H., March 3, 2009 - Transparent Language today announced the release of its new iPhone language learning application: Byki Irish. Available for download at byki.com/iphone, the Byki Irish for iPhone (and iPod touch) app will be free on St. Patrick's Day (March 17). After St. Patrick's Day, Byki Irish will cost $7.99 for the first 30 days as a special introductory price and $9.99 from then on.

Byki Irish for iPhone comes with more than 1000 words and phrases, including some special vocabulary for St. Patrick's Day, all taught through Byki's rapid, 3-step learning process. Every word and phrase includes native speaker sound, and Byki Irish for iPhone includes the popular SlowSound function that allows users to slow down the audio to help perfect their pronunciation.

"Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day," said Michael Quinlan, CEO of Transparent Language. "Now everyone can impress their friends by learning Irish, and all for free." Byki for iPhone also comes in eight other languages: Spanish, French, Italian, German, Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Portuguese, all available at the iPhone app store. Byki Spanish and Byki French are currently the best selling iPhone language education applications in the U.K., and all the Byki language app's have been among the most popular iPhone language education applications in the U.S. Byki Irish is the newest addition, with more languages in the works.

About the Byki System

Byki, short for "Before You Know It," is a rapid learning system employing spaced interval repetition. Experts agree that the key to second language learning is first building a strong lexical foundation, a ready supply of words and phrases locked in one's memory. Byki is the most direct path to that goal. Byki takes users through three simple steps to memorize words and phrases in a new language, including their meanings and proper pronunciation, in the shortest possible time. More than 3 million people around the world already use Byki, which currently comes in more than 70 languages.

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.