The Army has announced that it will soon make available
foreign language training for active Army, National Guard,
Reservists and Department of Army civilian personnel,
through its distributed learning system’s Army e-Learning
program.
The Amry will use a computer-based language immersion
program called Rosetta Stone in the hopes of raising basic
foreign language skills across the force, something it says
It has had difficulty doing in the past due to the “high
tempo of operations, limited resident school capacity and
the scarcity of contracted language training opportunities.”
Rosetta Stone provides 26 language courses through Army
e-Learning, including Arabic, Chinese –Mandarin, Danish,
Dutch, French, Farsi-Persian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi,
Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Pashto, Polish,
Portuguese, Russian, Spanish for both Spain and Latin
America, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese and
Welsh.
