Program allows troops to build language skills

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Program allows troops to build language skills
By Bryan Mitchell - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Dec 15, 2008 7:26:04 EST

Want to brush up on your French or challenge yourself to learn Arabic and possibly earn some extra pay?

The Corps is providing Marines a free way to acquire valuable language skills via Rosetta Stone, a popular computer-based language-learning program. Marines can access it via the Corps’ distance learning Web site, according to Marine Administrative message 661/08.

Active-duty and active and selected Reserve Marines as well as civilian employees may access Rosetta Stone via the MarineNet portal at www.marinenet.usmc.mil.

Brig. Gen. Richard M. Lake, the Corps’ top intelligence officer, said he’s using the program to improve his Swedish — one of three languages for which he receives extra pay.

Marines who can show basic proficiency in a language deemed operationally relevant are eligible for an extra $100 per month, according to Capt. Carrie Kauffman, a foreign language officer.


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