The Living Method For Learning How To Think In French

Author : Charles Frederick Kroeh
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230295640
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book The Living Method for Learning How to Think in French written by Charles Frederick Kroeh and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... THE LIVING METHOD. 10.--The essential requirement of this method is that you must actually perform the motions indicated below, when you say the words. Say the words audibly, so as to practice both tongue and ear. No English words must be allowed to come into your mind while you say the French ones. If necessary, say the first sentence, for example, as follows: Je (pointing to yourself), salue (performing the action), de la main (looking at your hand). Go on in this way until you realize the fact that you can do without English. 11.--THE HAND. LA MAIN. Salute with your hand, saying at the same time: Je salue de la main, which means: "I salute with my hand" (literally: with the hand.) Raise your hand, and say: Je leve la main, which means: "I raise my hand." Hold up your hand (keeping it raised), saying: Je tiens la main levee, which means: "I hold up my hand." Stretch (or hold) out your right hand, saying: Je tends la main droite, which means: "I stretch out my right hand." Shut (or close) your left hand, saying: Je ferme la main gauche, which means: "I shut my left hand." 12.--Repeat these actions and words until the latter are as easy for you to say as the corresponding English ones. 13.--The best way to practice is to say the sentences aloud for five or ten minutes at a time several times a day. Much more will be accomplished in this way than by studying for a whole hour. Utilize your spare moments and study frequently, not long. THE NEXT STEP. 14.--Having indelibly associated the action with the corresponding French expression, the next step is to vary this expression in accordance with the genius of the language. Thus, for example, the simplest change would be not to repeat the noun la main, the hand, but to substitute for it the...