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SCOLA Language Learning Center

The SCOLA / Language Learning Center is a unique, barrier-free language learning center featuring live SCOLA programming from around the world as well as dedicated workstations featuring language learning software including Rosetta Stone, Language Now and Before You Know It.  We will be adding ESL resources such as Rosetta Stone American English Module and Reading Horizon in the near future.

SCOLA Language Learning Center Website

SCOLA is a non-profit educational organization that receives and re-transmits television programming from around the world in native languages. Programming includes "Insta-classes" with each lesson combining video and audio clips with transcription and translation, quizzes, and vocabulary; live videostreams; world radio; photographs; and other cultural enrichment. Over Sixty-five languages are available through Streaming Video Broadcasts and/or Insta-Classes.

Some programming requires additional software which is available for download free from the internet.

Login information: 
Username: unOmaha_VS001
Password: Dodge_6001
Web Site: http://www.scola.org/

Rosetta Stone

Description: Rosetta Stone is the industry leader in foreign language learning software and it is designed to provide an immersion experience that mirrors how we learned our first language.  The five principles of dynamic immersion used in Rosetta Stone include: images, intuition, interactivity, instruction and immersion. Twenty-nine languages are available in Rosetta Stone.

Login information:
Patrons interested in using Rosetta Stone should seek assistance at the Reference Desk.

Before You Know It

Before You Know It is a product of Transparent Language and it is designed to provide engaging and effective vocabulary building exercises—a fundamental first step in language acquisition. Fifteen Languages are available.

Login Information: Accessible on the SCOLA / Language Learning Center workstations

Learn Language Now

Learn Language Now, a product of Transparent Language, immerses language learners in a foreign language and provides self-paced opportunities to read, write, listen and practice speaking.  Exercises are based on real-life scenarios making the language and culture come alive. The immersion environment consists of foreign language texts, translations, grammar information, and native speaker sound, often accompanied by videos or illustrations. Fifteen languages are available.

Login Information: Accessible on the SCOLA / Language Learning Center workstations

English as A Second Language Language (ESL) Resources Coming Soon!

Reading Horizons

Description: Reading Horizons is ESL software that provides interactive and multi-sensory phonics instruction, vocabulary enrichment and cultural education. Instructions are available in Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Haitian Creole and Japanese to assist beginning students in English as a Second Language.

Login: instructions are forthcoming

Rosetta Stone (American English Module)

Offers language instruction in American English for the ESL learner.