A Treatise On The Pronunciation Of The French Language Or A Synopsis Of Rules For Pronouncing The French Language Microform

Author : E. Arnoult
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ISBN 13 : 9781332384884
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Pronouncing Reading Book of the French Language written by E. Arnoult and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Pronouncing Reading Book of the French Language: Particularly Calculated to Render the Speaking of French Easy to the American Student, and Grounded on a New System of Comparative French and English Pronunciation The most important point to secure in a modern language is, first, its pronunciation; of this great desideratum, in French, we shall treat presently. Pronunciation being once acquired, the only effective ways and means we know for learning French as a living language, are various practical exercises, which should be performed, if possible, with both the aid of French and English text books. Hence, for teachers and learners, two very different stand-points, the first one of which - the French part - is now our groundwork. The second part seems also to demand some exclusive, special studies and instruments, - a weighty subject, - with which we, here, can have nothing to do but to state a fact that must be told. The use of English text books, for translation into French, and for extemporaneous speaking exercises, is not an easy one; and so long as there are no proper books purposely prepared for it, - with notes, various readings, grammatical explanations, and key, - this kind of teaching will remain an impossibility for American teachers, and a real difficulty for all native French instructors. Therefore the best means of studying and practicing the making of sentences, in one word, - the speaking of French, - cannot he admitted in schools for want of a school book! But all French and American teachers can use a French text for the same purpose, and, indeed, with great success, if it be the right reading, which, alone, will prove to work easy throughout the indispensable exercises described in a further page. A Frenchman does not speak like a book; and it is his conversational style that should, first, be the model; this is - at least by the light of logic and experience - the straight road to success. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."