An English And Singhalese Lesson Book On Ollendorffs System PDF Download

Excerpt from English and Sinhalese Lesson Book on Ollendorff's System: Designed to Teach Sinhalese Through the Medium of the English Language The present work is compiled upon a system which has been applied with the greatest success to nearly every European language; and I, therefore, present it to the Public with confident hope that it will in no slight degree assist Europeans in the acquisition of Singhalese. Whatever of merit there may be in the work, is mainly due to Ollendorff's system; and whatever of defect, must be charged upon myself. I have made one addition to Ollendorff's system: - Reading Lessons at intervals of 12 or 14 lessons, made as difficult as possible within the range of those lessons. They will not, however, be found too difficult, if the preceding lessons have been well learnt; nor should ability to understand the Reading Lesson well, be taken as a proof that the others have been thoroughly mastered: remembering that it is much easier to read and understand than to compose; much easier to occupy a house than to build one; to look at a picture than to paint it. Persons not in Ceylon, and who cannot have access to a native teacher, may, by careful study of the directions about pronunciation, commence the study of the language and make considerable progress in it; but it is desirable to have an intelligent native assistant at hand as much as possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.