Rosetta Stone English US Level 3

Homeschool Edition, Version 3

American English


Don't you think Rosetta Stone is a very fitting name for a language program? I certainly do. After all, the original Rosetta Stone included 2 different languages (Egyptian and Greek), with 3 different scripts (hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek) which had scholars puzzling for hundreds of years. Although the original stone was completed in 196 BC, the knowledge of how to read and write them disappeared. It was left undiscovered until 1799 when the skilled French linguist French deSacy identified the symbols which comprised the word Ptolemy and Alexander. This established a relationship between the symbols and sounds. It wasn't until 1822 when the British scientist Thomas Young and the French scholar Jean-François Champollion contributed greatly to the deciphering of the principles of hieroglyph. Rosetta Stone Homeschool Language Learning Curriculum helps me as a student of a language and as a parent and grandparent to decipher a new language and make sense of it all. Truly remarkable.