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Learn To Say "Kiss Me I'm Speaking Irish"

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a Free Download of Byki Irish for iPhone

Nashua, N.H., March 11, 2010 - While many claim to be Irish on St. Patrick's Day, Apple iPhone™ and iPod™ touch users can top them all by quickly learning to speak Irish. For a limited time, Transparent Language is offering their Byki Irish for iPhone language-learning software for free. Available at the iTunes store or Byki.com/iphone, this iPhone (and iPod touch) app is available for free download today through St. Patrick's Day on March 17, 2010.

Byki Irish for iPhone comes with more than 1,000 words and phrases, including some special words and phrases for St. Patrick's Day. All taught with Byki's rapid and effective 3-step learning process, every word and phrase includes native Irish speaker pronunciations, and the popular SlowSound™ feature - allowing users to slow down the audio to hear every nuance of the spoken language to help learners perfect their pronunciation. This year anyone can learn to compose limericks in their original tongue, order a round of Irish stout, and wish their friends well... all in perfect Irish.

"Everyone wants to be Irish on St. Patrick's Day," said Chuck McGonagle, Senior Vice President of Transparent Language. "Now everyone can, with free Byki Irish for iPhone." McGonagle notes that Byki apps are fun easy-to-use language learning tools that are a popular choice for individuals, libraries, and schools. With the continued development of mobile and internet applications, learning a new language is becoming more convenient and effective than ever.

Byki for iPhone comes in 20+ other languages - all available at Byki.com. Byki Spanish and Byki French are currently the best selling iPhone language education applications in the U.K., and Byki language apps have been among the most popular iPhone language education applications in the U.S. Byki Haitian Creole is one of the newest additions, recently provided at no charge by Transparent Language for rescue workers and relief organizations following the earthquake in Haiti. More languages are in the works, making Byki Language Learning apps the most efficient and versatile ways to learn a foreign language quickly.

About the Byki System

Byki, formerly "Before You Know It," is a 3-Step, rapid learning system employing spaced interval repetition. Experts agree that the key to language learning, especially at a beginning level, is to first build a strong lexical foundation - a ready supply of words and phrases locked into one's working memory. Byki is the fastest, most direct path to that goal. Byki takes users through three simple learning steps to memorize words and phrases in a new language, including their meanings, representation, and proper pronunciation, in the shortest possible time. Millions of people around the world already use Byki, which currently comes in more than 70 languages. Download a free version of Byki.

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.