Author : Jean Manesca
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781391414003
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (14 download)
Book Synopsis An Oral System of Teaching Living Languages, Vol. 1 Of 2 by : Jean Manesca
Download or read book An Oral System of Teaching Living Languages, Vol. 1 Of 2 written by Jean Manesca and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Oral System of Teaching Living Languages, Vol. 1 of 2: Illustrated by a Practical Course of Lessons in the French, Through the Medium of the English That the art of teaching living languages is not fixed upon a solid basis, is sufficiently attested by the multitude of works called Grammars which, from time to time, appear and supercede each other - each, in its turn, stripped of its ephemeral fame, sinking into contempt and oblivion. Until the French Revolution, the art of teaching the French, I may say, all modern languages, had been much neglected; but the political spasm, which, at that time, convulsed France and terrified Europe, soon brought into a closer con tact the respective individuals of civilized societies, and the necessity of additional 'means of communicating ideas, became more and more sensibly and generally felt than it had ever been before that critical period. 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.