German Daily Life: A Reader, Giving in Simple German Full Information On The Various Topics Of German Life, Manners, And Institutions (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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There is no need to insist on the growing im portance of Germany. Our scholars and musicians have long recognised it; and it has more recently been brought home to the great Middle Class by the keen and often successful competition of German commercial and industrial enterprise in the markets of the world. It is consequently being understood that German is a language to be studied, not merely by the specialist in science or even by the lover of literature, but for more practical purposes also.

It would seem that to a nation of shop keepers such an argument would appeal with considerable force; but the fact remains that while the last thirty years have witnessed an extraordinary development of German prosperity and German prestige, the amount of time given to the German language in our schools has hardly increased at all. Indeed a change for the better is only just beginning to appear: the interest shown in methods of modern language teaching which have proved efficacious on the continent, leads one to h0pe that henceforth more time will be given to German as well as to French, and also that the time will be better spent.

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