Rosetta Stone a permanent return. In December 2009, he proposed to drop his claim for the permanent return of the Rosetta Stone if the British Museum lent the stone to Egypt for three months for the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza in 2013. These requests were refused. As John Ray has observed, "the day may come when the stone has spent longer in the British Museum than it ever did in Rosetta." There is strong opposition among national museums to the repatriation of objects of international cultural significance such as the Rosetta Stone. In response to repeated Greek requests
Rosetta Stone Learning Center brand was acquired and absorbed in Dean Morgan, providing one-to-one and group lessons at two locations in Umeda and Namba, in Osaka. In 2008, the Hummingbird Pronunciation school brand was acquired and integrated into Dean Morgan. Hummingbird Pronunciation is a patented English pronunciation method. As of April 2012, there are a total of ten schools located in Tokyo and Osaka, with nearly 2,000 students. In April 2015, Dean Morgan formed a capital and business alliance with Rosetta Stone Inc. and subsequently rebranded the schools to Rosetta Stone Learning Center. The company then relocated the headquarters from Shinjuku, Tokyo to Ginza,