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Start your 2026 Resolutions with a lifetime membership to Rosetta Stone's language learning program for just 149

Popular Science

Grab a lifetime membership and learn up to 25 languages instead of scrolling your life away in 2026. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learning a new language is a very common resolution. It's useful, stimulating, and can even be fun if you choose the right method. Right now, Rosetta Stone has discounted its lifetime memberships, which means you can pay once and learn forever.


Order a bottle of wine in French before your next vacay

Popular Science

TL;DR: For under 150, get lifetime access to Rosetta Stone and learn up to 25 languages with immersive lessons, powerful speech-recognition tools, and bite-sized training. Many of us have thought, 'I really should learn another language. Whether it was after butchering the pronunciation of coq au vin, struggling to order at a Tokyo ramen shop, or while browsing flight deals to Barcelona, language learning always seems like a great idea … for later. As part of our version of Prime Day-style sales event, Rosetta Stone's all-languages lifetime subscription is just 148.97 through July 15. And yes, it includes 25 languages, from Spanish and Italian to Korean, Arabic, and Vietnamese.


The best language learning apps for 2025

Engadget

There's a good chance learning a new language is one of your New Year's resolutions, unless you're hoping Google Translate will be enough for your next international adventure. Either way, you'll need a reliable method to guide you through speaking and understanding the foreign language of your choosing. Fortunately, we're no longer confined to flashcards and textbooks as you can learn using your phone from the comfort of your couch. Many of the best language learning apps today offer a multi-tier approach, with AI-powered conversations, extensive vocab libraries and even podcasts you can listen to to help you master your target language. Whether you're just starting because you're just trying to understand what Bad Bunny means when he says "un verano en Nueva Yol," or you want to brush up on your Korean before that planned vacation, there's a language learning app to suit your needs.


Traveling abroad soon? Learn a language quickly with these 4 apps

FOX News

These apps let you choose from over a hundred different languages. Traveling to another country is an exciting experience, but learning a new language in order to do so can be a challenge. Fitting lessons into your schedule is difficult and getting the right pronunciation down is always a struggle. With language learning apps like Babbel, Rosetta Stone, Beelinguap and uTalk, you can learn a language at your own pace. These apps have hundreds of languages to choose from, and each app has a different approach and teaches a language differently.


Rosetta Stone at KSAA-RD Shared Task: A Hop From Language Modeling To Word--Definition Alignment

ElBakry, Ahmed, Gabr, Mohamed, ElNokrashy, Muhammad, AlKhamissi, Badr

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

A Reverse Dictionary is a tool enabling users to discover a word based on its provided definition, meaning, or description. Such a technique proves valuable in various scenarios, aiding language learners who possess a description of a word without its identity, and benefiting writers seeking precise terminology. These scenarios often encapsulate what is referred to as the "Tip-of-the-Tongue" (TOT) phenomena. In this work, we present our winning solution for the Arabic Reverse Dictionary shared task. This task focuses on deriving a vector representation of an Arabic word from its accompanying description. The shared task encompasses two distinct subtasks: the first involves an Arabic definition as input, while the second employs an English definition. For the first subtask, our approach relies on an ensemble of finetuned Arabic BERT-based models, predicting the word embedding for a given definition. The final representation is obtained through averaging the output embeddings from each model within the ensemble. In contrast, the most effective solution for the second subtask involves translating the English test definitions into Arabic and applying them to the finetuned models originally trained for the first subtask. This straightforward method achieves the highest score across both subtasks.


Cyber Monday: Rosetta Stone is more than $240 off now!

PCWorld

Want to make a point to travel more next year? You'll be able to navigate better if you can speak the language, and now is a great time to start learning a new one. Rosetta Stone is trusted by millions of people worldwide, including international organizations like NASA and TripAdvisor. That's because it's proven to be one of the best ways to learn a new language, using an intuitive approach that taps into how you learned your native language as a child. Add in proprietary technology like the speech recognition tool TruAccent and a curriculum that fits easily into your schedule, and Rosetta Stone will give you a leg up to learning a new language.

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Get Rosetta Stone and lifelong learning for just $160 with this Labor Day code

PCWorld

They say you should learn something new every day. Well, with The Unlimited Lifetime Learning Subscription Bundle, you actually can, and it's specially discounted during our Labor Day sale. This bundle includes lifetime subscriptions to Rosetta Stone and StackSkills Unlimited. Yes, that Rosetta Stone that has been trusted by international organizations like NASA and TripAdvisor for three decades and is considered the gold standard for language learning by CNN. StackSkills Unlimited, for its part, gives you access to more than 1,000 online courses on-demand from more than 350 of the web's top instructors.


Amazon's Echo Dot is down to $28, plus the rest of this week's best tech deals

Engadget

Summer can be a sleepy time for deals, but there was actually a fair amount of savings to be found on tech this week. Amazon's Prime Day is probably about a month away, but the company looked like they were getting a head start with discounts on Kindles, two Echo speakers, Fire TV devices and Blink mini cameras. Those prices may go lower during the event, but the savings are still good if you can't wait. Our favorite Sony headphones dropped back down to $348 and a few different Beats earbuds, including the Powerbeats Pro saw discounts of up to 36 percent. Apple's latest laptop, the 15-inch MacBook Air is already $100 off and last year's XPS 15 from Dell is currently $800 off. Here are the best deals from this week that you can still get today. Pair a smart speaker with a smart plug and you have the underpinnings of a smart home setup.


Resurrecting Dead Languages with AI, Machine Learning

#artificialintelligence

Listen to this episode from Tcast on Spotify. Here is your fun fact for the day – Napoleon actually broke the Rosetta Stone. Go figure. In a way, it’s a great metaphor. The Rosetta Stone has been an incredible tool for translating multiple languages in the centuries since its discovery, proving itself a valuable aid in helping put back the pieces of many languages that tend to get broken and lost over time. The value though is not merely in being able to translate ancient languages, it’s in all the history that comes with being able to read ancient texts for the first time. Suddenly a whole perspective on historical events opens up, or knowledge of things we could never have known about otherwise is unlocked. Putting an ancient language back together doesn’t just open up words, it opens up literal worlds. Now, the geniuses over at MIT have come up with another tool that we can use to unlock a few more. A new system has been developed by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) that can actually decipher lost languages. Best of all, it doesn’t need extensive knowledge of how it compares with already known languages to crack the code. The program can actually figure out on its own how different languages relate to one another.  So, how does that wizardry work? One of the chief insights that make CSAIL’s program possible is the recognition of certain patterns. One of these is that languages only develop in certain ways. Spellings can change in some ways, but not others due to how different certain letters sound. Based on this and other insights, it was possible to develop an algorithm that can pick out a variety of correlations.  Of course, such a thing has to be tested before it can be trusted. If you don’t test your language detector, you get bad languages. That’s probably how the whole “Aztecs said the end of the world would be in 2012” thing started. One intern with a bad translator program took it from, “And then I decided I could stop chiseling the years now. I’m a few centuries ahead,” to “the earth will stop completely rotating in 2012”. Fortunately, the researchers at MIT were a bit brighter than that. They took their program and tested it against several known languages, correctly pointing out the relationships between them and putting them in the proper language families. They are also looking to supplement their work with historical context to help determine the meaning of completely unfamiliar words, similar to what most people do when they come across a word they don’t know. They look at the entire sentence and try to figure out the meaning from the surrounding context.  Led by Professor Regina Barzilay, the CSAIL team has developed an incredibly useful tool to help us understand not just the events of times gone by, but the way people thought back then. By better understanding the languages of the past, we can learn why people did what they did. We could gain valuable insight into cultures long dead to us. That knowledge will in turn help us to better understand our past and how we got to where we are. It gets us more information, information straight from the source, or at least closer to it. If TARTLE likes anything in the world, it’s getting information straight from the source.  After all, that’s what we preach day in and day out around here. Getting our information from the source, minimizing false assumptions and bias when it comes to analyzing information. It’s great to see that same spirit at work in one of the world’s premier research centers and to see it being applied to our past.  What’s your data worth? www.tartle.co


Nine digital gifts on sale that don't need shipping

Engadget

Holiday shopping, like many things in 2020, is more complicated than in the previous years. One major consideration people need to account for before buying a physical gift, for example, is if that gift will arrive at its destination on time as much of the delivery and shipping infrastructure across the country is overwhelmed by heightened demand caused by COVID-19. If meeting a certain shipping date is impossible on your end, then you may want to consider gifting something digital this year. In doing so, you'll have the peace of mind that your gift will arrive in time for the holidays -- and you won't have to pay an exorbitant shipping fee on top of the cost of the gift. So, here's a roundup of nine stellar gifts that don't need shipping and make it possible to deliver some holiday cheer digitally this year.