Minimum French Grammar And Reader PDF Download

Excerpt from Minimum French Grammar and Reader: With Exercises and Graded Selections for Reading and Dictation, and Review Exercises for Translation Into French Another feature, which the author hopes will be regarded as valuable, is the insistence, in the Selec tions and in the Vocabularies, upon the resemblances and differences in the French and English forms of kindred words. If this point is stressed by the teacher, the student soon masters the habitual rela tions of form, and lays a good foundation also for future studies in etymology. The Pronunciation is placed, where it belongs, at the beginning, but with due help may be better studied along with the earliest grammar lessons than in a body beforehand. The directions given are in tended to be simply helpful and approximate: only voice can teach voice. N o attempt, however, is made at phonetic transliteration, because none is believed to be helpful in elementary work. 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.