<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.nativevillage.org/MAY%201%202006%20News%20Issue%20167/May%201,%202006%20I%20167%20V1.htm"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B><I>HTTP://WWW.NATIVEVILLAGE.ORG/MAY%201%202006%20NEWS%20ISSUE%20167/MAY%201,%202006%20I%20167%20V1.HTM</I></B></SPAN></FONT></A></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#884450" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B><I>ROSETTA STONE(R) RELEASES INTERACTIVE MOHAWK LANGUAGE SOFTWARE</I></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#884450" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B><I> </I></B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>Virginia: Rosetta Stone has just released language-learning software for the Mohawk (Kanien'keha) language. Spoken by the Kanien'kehaka (People of the Flint) nation, Kanien'keha is among many of the world's Indigenous languages that are in danger of becoming extinct. Five hundred years ago, an estimated 300 languages were spoken across North America. Today, only about 25 are now spoken by children. The remaining languages are likely to disappear with their generation of speakers. "We believe the best way to preserve a language is through teaching and learning, keeping it a living language in the hands of the people to whom it belongs," says Ilse Ackerman from Rosetta Stone. "Technology can help with this task. Interactive language software is a great resource to support community language initiatives. It provides learners unlimited exposure to fluent speech, patient and tireless feedback, and an individually tailored learning pace." Software development for the Kanien'keha language was sponsored by the Mohawk language and cultural center of Kahnawake. This is the first endangered language software to be developed through Rosetta Stone, which currently teaches 30 other languages to people in over 150 countries.</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.aborinews.com/contenu/bulletin/bulletin.asp?cat=CommuniquesEn&id=1529http://www.newswire.c"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><B>http://www.aborinews.com/contenu/bulletin/bulletin.asp?cat=CommuniquesEn&id=1529http://www.newswire.c</B></SPAN></FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>