Tactical Iraqi wins 2007 I/ITSEC Serious Games Showcase & Challenge

Tactical Iraqi wins DARPA's 2005 Award for Significant Technical Achievement

"I can best summarize Tactical Iraqi's success by quoting one soldier's words: 'I learned more Arabic in one day with it than I learned in my whole tour in Iraq.'"
Dr. Anthony J. Tether, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

"The idea is to put behind every steering wheel and behind every trigger finger in a foreign country a little bit of that culture and language....I'll be happy if this could save just one life by preventing a misunderstanding."
Dr. Ralph Chatham, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Our award-winning courses teach foreign languages and cultural knowledge needed to conduct tasks effectively and safely during both daily life and military missions.

They are self-paced foreign-language training programs that use numerous research-based pedagogic and technologic innovations — including interactive 3D video game simulations — to teach what to say, how to say it, and when to say it.

After just a few hours of study, anyone from beginners to advanced students learn and retain spoken communication skills regardless of their self-perceived learning aptitude or prior knowledge of the language.

Foreign-language instruction emphasizes spoken vocabularies and pronunciation, covering grammar and written language only when required.

Acting as comprehensive cultural tutors, the courses teach practical cultural knowledge, sensitivity and awareness — including non-verbal gestures, etiquette, and norms of politeness — that are critical for successful communication.

Trainees learn by listening to and speaking in the foreign language, getting immediate feedback and guidance. They play fun, immersive, interactive 3D video games that simulate real life communication by role playing with animated "socially intelligent virtual humans" that recognize trainees' speech, gestures and behavior. If trainees speak and behave correctly, the virtual humans become trustful and cooperative, and provide information that trainees need to advance. Otherwise, the virtual humans are uncooperative and prevent trainees from "winning" the game.

Storylines provide a wide range of game-play paths, interactive dialogs and action options.

Since the first release of the Tactical Iraqi Arabic language course in August 2006 — followed by the releases of the Tactical Pashto and Tactical French courses in 2007 — outcomes have been and continue to be excellent.

Over 20,000 U.S. servicemen and members of the Australian Defence Force have successfully learned and transferred to the real world the skills they acquired with our foreign-language training programs.

An evaluation of the Tactical Iraqi course by the U.S. Special Operations Command found that trainees learn Arabic to an Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) proficiency of 0+ after as little as a week of study. Many rate our courses better and more fun than other self-study and instructor-led classes.

We currently offer courses to study Iraqi Arabic language and culture (Tactical Iraqi), Pashto language and culture for the Pashtun regions of Afghanistan (Tactical Pashto), and French as spoken in the countries of Sahel Africa (Tactical French). An Afghan Dari course (Tactical Dari) is scheduled for release soon. Military training missions include civil affairs, house cordon and search, entry check point, crowd management, team training, and information gathering.

We are also available to apply our advanced language-learning technology and methods to the production of customized and localized courses, and embedding language-learning technology components in other courses, simulators and games.

Information on our non-military products — including our Mission to Iraq language and culture training course for Iraqi Arabic — on our parent company's website, Alelo Inc.