GlobalAutoIndustry.com Partners with Rosetta Stone to Offer the Fastest Language-Learning Tool to the Global Automotive Community

TROY, Mich.--Oct. 2, 20039, 2003--

GlobalAutoIndustry.com and Rosetta Stone have partnered to offer the global automotive community the fastest way to learn new languages.

Rosetta Stone's interactive software is now available through the GlobalAutoIndustry.com Online Language Learning Center, on the company's Web site. Rosetta Stone is also featured in GlobalAutoIndustry.com's eJournals and hard-copy quarterly Journals.

"People from all over the world visit the GlobalAutoIndustry.com web site daily to find insight and strategies on the world's top automotive markets," said Ron Hesse, GlobalAutoIndustry.com president and CEO. "Now with Rosetta Stone, they will also have access to award-winning, state-of-the-art language learning in more than 25 languages."

The Rosetta Stone Dynamic Immersion method uses thousands of real-life images and the voices of native speakers to help develop everyday proficiency naturally, the same way people learned their first language. NASA, the Peace Corps, the U.S. State Department and more than 5 million people in over 100 countries have successfully used the software for fast and effective language learning.

"GlobalAutoIndustry.com gives Rosetta Stone excellent visibility in the automotive industry worldwide," said Tom Adams, CEO of Fairfield Language Technologies. "With GlobalAutoIndustry.com's emphasis on effective business strategies for automotive markets around the world, Rosetta Stone is positioned as the leading language-learning solution for auto suppliers' needs."

The Rosetta Stone online and CD-ROM program of instruction uses native speakers, text exercises, speech-recognition features and dictation exercises to build listening, reading, speaking and writing skills. It has won praise from instructors and students and a host of prizes from computer magazines, curriculum groups and trade associations.

About The Rosetta Stone and Fairfield Language Technologies

Fairfield Language Technologies produces the Rosetta Stone, a series of revolutionary language-learning programs on CD and Online acclaimed for their speed, power, and effectiveness. Corporations and government agencies worldwide build their language training programs around the Rosetta Stone. More than 5 million learners in 10,000 schools and over 100 countries use the Rosetta Stone for language-learning success.

Rosetta Stone's award-winning Dynamic Immersion(TM) method uses thousands of real-life images, written text and voices of native speakers to teach more than two dozen languages "from the inside," like a native learner.

Fairfield Language Technologies is located in Harrisonburg, Va. For more information on the Rosetta Stone and Fairfield Language Technologies, contact Duane Sider at (540) 432-6166, Ext. 3212, or DSider@RosettaStone.com.

About GlobalAutoIndustry.com

GlobalAutoIndustry.com connects the worldwide auto supplier industry with the resources to effectively do business globally. Through the web site, www.GlobalAutoIndustry.com, auto supplier executives can find insight, solutions and strategies focused on doing business in the world's top automotive markets.

Monthly eJournals provide targeted information and insight on doing business in foreign markets and GlobalAutoIndustry.com Solutions provide effective international answers to suppliers' global business and operational needs.

Parent company, HCI Group Ltd., is based in Troy, Mich., with European headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.