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. 1850 Excerpt: ...of the systems by which it is taught, and not in the language itself. M. Lebahn shows how closely the English and German are allied; what large obligations the former owes to the latter; and how very simple is all that pronunciation which looks so hopeless at the first glance in the rugged text-letters. He begins with ...
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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. 1850 Excerpt: ...of the systems by which it is taught, and not in the language itself. M. Lebahn shows how closely the English and German are allied; what large obligations the former owes to the latter; and how very simple is all that pronunciation which looks so hopeless at the first glance in the rugged text-letters. He begins with the alphabet, which, of course, is indispensible; carries you step by step through the grammar, illustrated by exercises as he proceeds; introduces you next to some translations from English into German, then gives you Fouque's tale of Undine, which you are expected by this time to be able to translate for yourself; then a copious vocabulary of synonymous words in the two languages, the extent of which will surprise people who are not well acquainted with the German; and finally, furnishes you with some literal translations of the exercises, and other miscellaneous notes and explanations, which complete your course. We believe that a careful study of the contents of the book will help the reader to a sufficient knowledge of German for travelling purposes, to be improved and enlarged by other and wider efforts. Certain it is that the language is by no means so hard as it looks, and that the chief trouble attending its acquisition arises not from its structure, but from its copiousness.--The Atlas. In the different essays upon Military education which have been published from time to time, it has uniformly been recommended that the study of German should be prosecuted by all who desire to obtain an extensive acquaintance with their profession. To many, however, this recommendation comes rather too late, for their duties and position render it impossible that they should now devote the requisite time to philological acquirements. They may, howeve...
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