Library offers Rosetta Stone service free to campus members

March 10, 2016 9:00 am
by By Mike Helenthal
Assistant Editor
Campus Life

**FREE LANGUAGE LEARNING**
Thanks to a new licensing agreement between the U. of I. and Rosetta Stone, America’s premier commercial online language teacher, faculty and staff members, and students may now use the software for free to learn up to 30 languages. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

**TRIAL PERIOD**
The University Library’s contract with Rosetta Stone is for one year as library leaders monitor the service’s use on campus. If it’s as popular as they think it will be, then the contract could be extended.

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