Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875. Excerpt: ... BOSTON: SCHCENHOF & MCELLER; LEE & SHEPARD; A. WILLIAMS & CO. NEW YORK: F. W. CHR1STERN. 1875. PREFACE. This pamphlet is designed to accompany the book entitled, " Causeries avec mes eldves." Here is the preface of the work. "The book that I am to-day publishing has been often solicited of me by my pupils. It is dedicated to them as a souvenir of our pleasant intercourse. They were before my eyes while I was writing, and I have heard them answering and questioning me. Nor is it exactly a book: in that is its character and its value. It is nothing but a simple conversation vividly put upon paper, and which has almost retained its gestures. My pupils will see me in reading it, as I have seen them in composing it. I converse there only with this little company, charming and select, curious to know every thing in the world of ideas, of things, and of literature. The persons who will employ it for the study of French, will learn there a rich and varied language; at the same time they will cultivate their minds and elevate their thoughts. "If I am not under a delusion, my work answers a real need, and will one day become the manual of all the schools. Foreigners who are studying French wish to speak. This book, and no other, leads to this result. The professors of Harvard, and those of Yale, have appreciated the system which it reproduces, and have acknowledged it superior to every other. This was already the judgment of Montaigne three centuries ago. "The book is new and original: like my lessons, it teaches the language without grammar or dictionary; like them also, it speaks French from the first hour, and does not pronounce one word of English. "It is intended for my pupils and for all those who teach and study my language; it is addressed none the less to ...
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