The Pronunciation of the French Language on a Mechanical Principle: Or a New, Rational and Practical Method for Effectually Imparting to Englishmen the Parisian Pronunciation (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Although it will be universally conceded that much material help is afforded both the Teacher and the Student by the nume rous text-books now in use 5 and while acknowledging that I have myself, in former, years, derived much assistance from the Works of my Fellow - Linguists, yet, I confess that I have Often times felt the want, while engaged in Teaching, of some Short, Plain, Lucid, and in the mean time, Systematic Method for teaching French, not to Frenchmen but to Englishmen, and that from an English Stand point, a Method that would be devoid of those Intricacies, unnecessary Rules, and Iengthly Dissertations that are common to all Languages, and that render the Study of a Foreign Language tiresome in the extreme, especially to the Uninitiated.

In fact, I wanted a system for teaching French by the shortest and most Simple Method, and in as little a time as possible.

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