Getting to Paris: A Book of Practice in French Conversation (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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With the introduction in late years of what are called Speaking French Grammars, the methods of teaching French have undergone a complete change. Formerly, any one who could translate French au thors readily, was considered a good French scholar; but now, to merit that distinction, one must speak the language.

Measured by this standard, however, good French scholars are rare. Our children, when in France, find their school French insufficient for the require ments of life; very few, if any, students learn at col lege to speak the language, and hence our professional men, though they may be complete masters of Latin and Greek, are seldom good scholars in French; and our foreign ministers are so rarely able to use French in their diplomatic intercourse at foreign courts, that an occasional exception is noted by the press with admiration. And yet, in all other departments of knowledge, our schools and colleges yearly send forth many of their graduates thoroughly instructed.

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