Author : South. Methodist Episcopal Church
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230043845
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (438 download)
Book Synopsis The Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South Volume 2 by : South. Methodist Episcopal Church
Download or read book The Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South Volume 2 written by South. Methodist Episcopal Church and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 248 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. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ... of the method, it is also oral. The. learner is, from first to last, exercised in actually speaking the language, as well as in writing it and committing to memory its words. He is not given the theory of the language merely. Everything taught he is enabled to use readily and correctly in conversation; and this from the necessary result of the method pursued. The tongue and the ear are given their full share of exercise, so that nothing is imparted to the understanding which is not entirely available in its practical use. Possessed of these characteristics, we give the method our entire commendation. Its adaptation to the wants of the learner is too obvious to need much comment, did our limits admit; and those who become acquainted with its practical workings will be still more sensible of its value. Men have been accustomed to make themselves acquainted with the living as well as the dead languages through the eye only, and have then wondered that they did not understand them through the ear, and could not communicate them readily by the tongue; not considering that the signs of ideas which are marked by letters on paper, and make their impression on the sight, can have no possible resemblance to the sounds which we hear, or the articulations which we enunciate. A living language, to be learned as it should he, must be made familiar to the sight, the hearing, and the organs of speech; and all this the " Practical French Teacher" aims to accomplish. In this particular regard we believe the author does not claim entire originality. Munesca, before him, had done a commendable work, and he probably took the idea of giving English exercises after the vocabularies from Ollendortf; still he mustqbe allowed the merit of various...