Excerpt from Pour Apprendre a Parler Francais: Suite a les Premiers Pas dans l'Etude du Francais The purpose of this book is to help pupils in learning to speak French. They need, and have a right to require their teachers to furnish, interesting and suggestive topics of conversation, a carefully selected supply of appropriate words, and hints as to the best ways of securing the necessary drill. I have attempted to supply that part of these requirements which can be supplied in a book. Conversation is an art that can be acquired, even in the vernacular, only by much attention and practice. Intercourse with Frenchmen may, no doubt, be made to contribute largely to general improvement in the art; but in all cases the indispensable requisite is the complete command of a copious store of words and ideas. The system of teaching a foreign language, formerly so prevalent, by which the pupil is required merely to translate, does not furnish this requisite - in fact fails signally to teach him to speak at all. The failure is in part due to the insurmountable difficulty of mastering in this way idioms, and in part to the neglect of practice - an element as essential to proficiency in speaking a language as to proficiency in playing an instrument. 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."
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C. Moutonnier
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Pour Apprendre a Parler Francais : Suite a les Premiers Pas Dans l'Etude du Francais (Classic Reprint)