Sue Jean B. First Lessons in French

Revised edition. — Philadelphia: J. B. Lippnicott & Co, 1871. — 180 p. An introduction practical and intellectual method of learning French.At the pressing invitation of several Frencli Teachers who have used successfully our Complete Course with advanced classes, and in order to popularize a system of instruction highly recommended by competent judges, we publish this little treatise as an introduction to the practical intellectual method of learning French. It will be fouud to Contain, in a few pages, clear and comprehensive views of the ten essential elements of the French language. By means of graduated oral exercises based on accurate orthoëpic principles, which are fully developed at the beginning of this volume, the primitive Gallic sounds, interpreted by practical teachers, do not undergo the pernicious process of assimilation to English ones - the Gallic and Anglo-Saxon idioms, in this respect, differing entirely. Guided, afterwards, by the syllabic division of words - the first element of a pure pronunciation of the French tongue, by the simple practice of our primary reading-lessons, in which the Orthoëpic element (the division op words into syllables) is introduced, learners cannot fail to acquire correct principles of enunciation.