Fortunately he knew there was a better way to learn a language through immersion which he had experienced years earlier while studying in germany. Allen stoltzfus began studying russian in the 1980s but became frustrated with his slow progress. Rosetta stone began with one man s quest for a better way to learn a language.
Pierre bouchard one of napoleon s soldiers was aware of this order when he found the basalt stone which was almost four feet long and two and a half feet wide at a fort near rosetta. History of the rosetta stone the discovery in 1799 while digging in and building defensive positions near rashid ancient rosetta a small city outside alexandria a soldier in napoleon s army discovered a black basalt stone 3 9 long by 2 4 wide with three distinct bands of engraving. The stone was discovered at port saint julien el rashid rosetta on the nile.
Hieroglyphic demotic and greek a fact which immeasurably helped to finally decipher egyptian hieroglyphics. The rosetta stone is an incomplete grey and pink granodiorite stela dating from 196 bce which presents a priestly decree concerning king ptolemy v of egypt the text is in three different versions. Because the words are translated into the other languages it provided jean francois champollion the key to the mystery of egyptian hieroglyphs.
The rosetta stone which is housed in the british museum is a black possibly basalt slab with three languages on it greek demotic and hieroglyphs each saying the same thing. It was found in 1799 near the town of rosetta rashid about 35 miles northeast of alexandria. Their decipherment led to the understanding of hieroglyphic writing.
Rosetta stone ancient egyptian stone bearing inscriptions in several languages and scripts. Best known for its language learning products in 2013 the company expanded beyond language into education technology with its acquisitions of livemocha lexia learning fit brains and tell me more. Is an american education technology software company that develops language literacy and brain fitness software.
Rosetta stone language learning is proprietary computer assisted language learning call software published by rosetta stone inc the software uses images text and sound to teach words and grammar by spaced repetition without translation rosetta stone calls its approach dynamic immersion. French army engineers who were part of napoleon bonaparte. In the 19th century the rosetta stone helped scholars at long last crack the code of hieroglyphics the ancient egyptian writing system.
