Hi Bob,

In 1799, French soldiers in Egypt found a big black rock.

They almost threw it away.

It looked like nothing special - just another chunk of granite with some writing on it.

But this "boring rock" would become the most important archaeological discovery in history.

The Rosetta Stone.

Here's the thing, though...

The actual content on the Rosetta Stone is mind-numbingly dull.

It's a priestly decree from 196 BC. Basically, ancient government bureaucracy - praising King Ptolemy V, listing his good deeds, and mentioning various tax exemptions for temples.

The kind of document that would put you to sleep faster than an economics textbook.

Yet this boring proclamation unlocked the entire Egyptian language.

Why?

Because it told the same tedious story in three different scripts - hieroglyphics, Demotic, and ancient Greek.

Scholars already knew Greek. So by comparing the three versions of the same dull decree, they finally cracked the code of hieroglyphics.

A civilisation that had been silent for 1,500 years suddenly started speaking again.

All thanks to some ancient bureaucratic propaganda.

Here's what this teaches us about language learning:

Context is EVERYTHING.

The content of the Rosetta Stone was boring as hell. But it had complete context - the full story in multiple languages side by side.

That complete context is what made understanding possible.

Most language learning apps and textbooks give you the opposite...

Random sentences like "The elephant drinks milk."

Isolated grammar rules without any story.

Vocabulary lists with no context.

It's like trying to decode hieroglyphics with just a few random symbols. Impossible.

But when you have a complete story - with beginning, middle, and end - your brain naturally starts recognising patterns and meaning.

That's exactly what we do at StoryLearning.

Except, unlike the Rosetta Stone, our stories are actually entertaining!

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We give you the "Rosetta Stone effect" (complete context that unlocks understanding)...

But with stories you'll actually enjoy reading.

The best of both worlds.

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Best,

Olly

P.S.

One of our students recently told me: "I couldn't put the story down - I had to know who the mysterious 'Man in the Hat' was!"

That's not something anyone ever said about the Rosetta Stone's priestly decree.