Download or read book A Key to the Correct Pronunciation of the French Language Classic Reprint written by Michel Breithof and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Key to the Correct Pronunciation of the French Language The French alphabet is identically the same as the English; but two letters (75 and w) do not properly belong to the French Alphabet, as they are only found in a few words borrowed from foreign languages. N B. The six letters a, e, i, o, u, y, are called vowels, as in English; the remaining letters, c w, x, z, are consonants. 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.

Download or read book A key to the correct pronunciation of the French language written by Michel Breithof and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Key to the First French Book written by M. D. Berlitz and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Key to the First French Book: Containing the Pronunciation, Translation and Grammar of the French Text, With Explanation of Idioms In a book designed for self-instruction, it may seem ah surd to state at the outset that a speaking knowledge of a language can hardly be obtained from books. It is evident that a language consists of sounds and that one can no more learn a sound from an explanation than one can get a correct idea of a flavour from a description a sound must be heard, a colour seen, a flavour tasted, an odour smelled. There are hardly any sounds in one lan guage perfectly identical with those of another language; there is merely a more or less close resemblance between them; you must therefore hear the foreign sounds before you can produce them correctly. Phonographs will not do for this purpose, not only because their reproduction of at least some sounds is rather imperfect, but also because the ear makes the foreign sounds similar to those with which it is familiar in your mother tongue, unless a teacher draws your attention to the peculiarity of that' particular sound and drills you until you hear it and utter it correctly. Furthermore, in order to understand and speak a lan guage, the sounds reaching the ear must be so intimately connected with the mental impressions (ideas) that the lat ter are spontaneously and immediately made or awakened as soon as the former 1s heard, and the ideas in their turn must, through direct connection with the organs of speech, cause the proper expression to be immediately on your tongue's end. The normal way of learning a foreign language is, therefore, to have a native teacher (or, still better, several teach ers alternating) who speaks to you and makes you speak the foreign language only, teaching the expressions of concrete meaning by object lessons, those of abstract meaning through association (context), grammar and idioms through examples and practical drill. These principles form the basis of the Berlitz Method. 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.

Download or read book First Principles of French Pronunciation Classic Reprint written by Emile Saillens and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from First Principles of French Pronunciation This book is for English-speaking people. It has a three fold object. First, it should serve those general readers or speakers of French whose feeling for the language is such that they will not rest content with a mere rough-and-ready approximation to the way in which it is pronounced by Frenchmen. Secondly, its concern is with teachers and their pupils already devoted to the direct method of modern-language study, as also with those who are liberal enough to give that method a trial. Thirdly, it may furnish a handy epitome of its subject for academic students of French, whose needs must be met more in detail by the advanced investigations of the recognized specialists, and particularly those native to the language. 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.

Download or read book Pronouncing Reading Book of the French Language written by E. Arnoult and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Pronouncing Reading Book of the French Language: Particularly Calculated to Render the Speaking of French Easy to the American Student, and Grounded on a New System of Comparative French and English Pronunciation The most important point to secure in a modern language is, first, its pronunciation; of this great desideratum, in French, we shall treat presently. Pronunciation being once acquired, the only effective ways and means we know for learning French as a living language, are various practical exercises, which should be performed, if possible, with both the aid of French and English text books. Hence, for teachers and learners, two very different stand-points, the first one of which - the French part - is now our groundwork. The second part seems also to demand some exclusive, special studies and instruments, - a weighty subject, - with which we, here, can have nothing to do but to state a fact that must be told. The use of English text books, for translation into French, and for extemporaneous speaking exercises, is not an easy one; and so long as there are no proper books purposely prepared for it, - with notes, various readings, grammatical explanations, and key, - this kind of teaching will remain an impossibility for American teachers, and a real difficulty for all native French instructors. Therefore the best means of studying and practicing the making of sentences, in one word, - the speaking of French, - cannot he admitted in schools for want of a school book! But all French and American teachers can use a French text for the same purpose, and, indeed, with great success, if it be the right reading, which, alone, will prove to work easy throughout the indispensable exercises described in a further page. A Frenchman does not speak like a book; and it is his conversational style that should, first, be the model; this is - at least by the light of logic and experience - the straight road to success. 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."

Download or read book The Pronunciation of French Made Easy written by J. b. Cantel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-12 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pronunciation of French Made Easy: A New Method of Learning to Pronounce French Correctly Those which are articulated in English with the help Of e, are articulated in French with the help of é; the remainders are the same in both languages. The only difference between the French and the English compound consonants concerns those that are between the parenthesis. 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.

Download or read book French Pronunciation written by James Geddes and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from French Pronunciation: Principles and Practice and a Summary of Usage in Writing and Printing The path of any one undertaking to furnish a guide to French pronunciation is a thorny one. Nevertheless, despite this fact and the thanklessness of the task, the subject receives, in a variety of forms, some attention annually. Most of this attention is of the obligatory kind and is found in the opening chapter of almost every French grammar that appears. Such treatment, While necessarily concise and brief and generally well adapted to the purpose in view, of introducing the student to the subject, hardly ever goes beyond that goal. Besides the grammars, there are quite a few manuals, or treatises, on pronunciation that appear from time to time, and in their way are helpful to the serious student of the subject, no matter how objectionable he may consider many features in such works. Lastly there are the recent dictionaries, in most Of which the most cursory examination reveals an amount of attention given to the subject of pronuncia tion proportionate to the very considerable interest there in manifested of late years. 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.

Download or read book A New and Complete Guide to the Pronunciation and Reading of the French Language written by Norman William Camp and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A New and Complete Guide to the Pronunciation and Reading of the French Language: Illustrated With Analogous English Sounds The author hopes it may be found serviceable in the first place, to those who cannot have the a1d of the livmg teacher. 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.

Download or read book French System of Sound written by Mlle V. Prud'homme and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from French System of Sound: The Student's Help; An Original Methode Naturelle and Key to the French Language Bear zn mind that this New System is the System of Sound, and has nothing to'do' with the letters. For Ih stance, when I give you an English word, such asfar, cat, fee, and tell you to pronounce the French word with the same sound of the letters in one of these words, I mean for' you to give the sonna' which those letters form the sound which it conveys to your ear, and not the letters themselves. 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.

Download or read book A Primer of French Pronunciation Classic Reprint written by John Ernst Matzke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Primer of French Pronunciation I have had no phonetic theories in the preparation of this Primer. I have dismissed them whenever they suggested themselves, preferring rather to lay myself open to criticism on this score than to burden the book with confusing details. 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.

Download or read book A Short French Grammar Classic Reprint written by Charles Hall Grandgent and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Short French Grammar Pronunciation. It seems to me that the time has come for a more scientific description of pronunciation in popular text-books. I have attempted to furnish this without the use of any unfamiliar terms and with almost no mention of the positions of the unseen vocal organs. I have, in fact, in characterizing the individual French sounds, relied almost entirely on English key-words, but these words have been selected with such care that the correspondences are sufficiently accurate. Of course my descriptions are offered as a supplement to oral instruction by the teacher, not as a substitute for it. Through out the Grammar the pronunciation of French words and inflected forms has been clearly and consistently indicated. My phonetic notation is exceedingly simple: an intelligent person who knows French can read the transcription without any explanation; while beginners will, I think, find it a great help in studying French speech. To any phoneticians who may think I ought to have given less importance to the written forms, I would say that I agree entirely with the opinion expressed by H. Morf, Phonetzlrclze Stadt'en, VI., 1, pp. 112 - 113, on the comparative value of pronunciation and spelling to the student of a foreign language; for Americans, indeed, isolated as they are, he might have put the case still more strongly. 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.

Download or read book A Grammar of the French Language with Practical Exercises Classic Reprint written by Nicolas Wanostrocht and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Grammar of the French Language, With Practical Exercises Of much indulgence, yet, ifit mould be found of real utility to the public, your approbation will be no fmall recommendation 3 at leaflz, it will. 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.

Download or read book French Fables written by Francois-Marie-Joseph Surault and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-29 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from French Fables: With a Key, and a Treatise on Pronunciation, for Those Who Begin to Read the French Language; Being the Fourth Elementary Work in the Complete Course of French Instruction Nothing favors more the success Of beginners in any language, than the judicious selection Of a good and suit able book. Many works now extant are very far from being satisfactory in this respect. Some are pompously written, but difficult to be understood, which make us waste too much time; others manifest a complete ignorance Of the language in which they are Offered to us, and corrupt our taste. Unfortunately, the latter kind Of works prevails at this moment, and is as prejudicial to progress as bad food to the health Of the body. Both master and pupil must feel the great importance Of this truth; the former when he is reluctantly obliged to use the first book which he finds to initiate a young American into the knowledge Of the French Language, and which does not answer his purpose; and the latter when he tries to take his first steps, which are always very hard. Experience teaches us that every thing appears difficult to the learner Of a new language, even the most simple and easy sentences, and sometimes the slightest Obstacle is able to discourage him for ever. Therefore I have given a Key, which is a mute monitor to assist him, in the absence of his master, in the preparation Of his lesson. These considerations are strong enough to induce a master, proud Of'the improvement of his pupils, to supply this desideratum. 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.

Download or read book The Pronunciation of the French Language on a Mechanical Principle written by Laurent H. Tremblay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pronunciation of the French Language on a Mechanical Principle: Or a New, Rational and Practical Method for Effectually Imparting to Englishmen the Parisian Pronunciation Although it will be universally conceded that much material help is afforded both the Teacher and the Student by the nume rous text-books now in use 5 and while acknowledging that I have myself, in former, years, derived much assistance from the Works of my Fellow - Linguists, yet, I confess that I have Often times felt the want, while engaged in Teaching, of some Short, Plain, Lucid, and in the mean time, Systematic Method for teaching French, not to Frenchmen but to Englishmen, and that from an English Stand point, a Method that would be devoid of those Intricacies, unnecessary Rules, and Iengthly Dissertations that are common to all Languages, and that render the Study of a Foreign Language tiresome in the extreme, especially to the Uninitiated. In fact, I wanted a system for teaching French by the shortest and most Simple Method, and in as little a time 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.

Download or read book Phonetic French Reader written by Anna Woods Ballard and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-25 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Phonetic French Reader: Phonetic Transcription of Short Stories for Oral French In spite of the eagerness shown by pupils in learning the sounds Of French, and in spite Of their rapid progress in correct pronunciation by the use of phonetic transcription, teachers will find that if all drill in sounds and all reading from them is given up too soon, the pronunciation of the class will deteriorate rapidly. Pupils will ask for more practice and are eager for fresh material. When once they have a firm grasp of the exact pronunciation of each sound, they realize how wonderfully the phonetic transcription helps them to pronounce correctly, even when working alone. 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.

Download or read book The Influence of Anglo French Pronunciation Upon Modern English Classic Reprint written by W. W. Skeat and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Influence of Anglo-French Pronunciation Upon Modern English In some remarks upon "The Proverbs of Alfred," printed in the Phil. Soc. Trans, for 1895-8, p. 399, I endeavoured to draw attention to certain curious peculiarities of spelling to be found in some MSS., particularly of the thirteenth century, and I showed that they can all be accounted for by the simple supposition that the scribes who wrote them were trained in Norman schools, and were more accustomed to the pronunciation of Anglo-French than to the true English sounds of the words which they were trying to write down. I cannot find that much use has yet been made of this discovery, except by myself. However, I am now prepared to go very much further, and to say that students of Middle English will have to recognize the practical side of the principles which I have laid down. For there is a great deal more in it than might be supposed. It has now become quite clear to me that the Norman pronunciation did, in many cases, overpower and divert the native pronunciation of native words; and this influence has to be reckoned with in a very much larger number of instances than any scholar has hitherto suspected. Indeed, I find in it an easy answer to a great many peculiarities of pronunciation that seem, at first eight, to contradict the usual phonetic laws. In order to make the chief points clearer, I have drawn up a list of sixteen canons, showing in what respects a Norman would naturally vary from an Englishman in matters of pronunciation. These I have reprinted, and renumbered, in an article entitled "Observations of some peculiarities of Anglo-French Spelling," which appears at p 471 of my "Notes on English Etymology," to be published by the Clarendon Press in the present year; and they are briefly recapitulated below, at p. 25, followed by a list of early texts in which A.F. spellings occur. 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.

Download or read book Correct French Easily Learned written by Juliette Bing and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Correct French Easily Learned: A Simplified Handbook on Pronunciation for Beginners In order to obviate that difficulty I have tried to give a reliable rule embracing each case, giving as an illustration the equivalent sound in English words. Each rule and exception is accompanied by numerous words intended to facilitate the work of the teacher by supplying examples which at the same time afford a large vocabulary. I hope I have reached my aim, having used orally this system of pronunciation which gave, indeed, unexpected results, especially with beginners who were enabled to read French with a pure pronunciation, after a few lessons. 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.