He taught himself to speak again with the help of Rosetta Stone English and his six-year-old granddaughter, but he still gets words mixed up once in a while, and apologizes often for speaking slowly.

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The Rosetta Stone for these programmers was initially provided by Canada's parliament, which published proceedings online in French and English, allowing computers to compare identical texts in two different languages.

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