Polyglot Reader and Guide for Translation, Consisting of a Series of English Extracts, with Their Translation Into French, German, Spanish and Italian: The Several Parts Designed to Serve as Mutual Keys. English TextD. Appleton and Company, 1875 |
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... pronunciation , can be attained , independently of any assist- ance from an instructor , is proved by experience ; for self - instructed persons common- ly secure this object to the exclusion of the other departments of the study ...
... pronunciation , can be attained , independently of any assist- ance from an instructor , is proved by experience ; for self - instructed persons common- ly secure this object to the exclusion of the other departments of the study ...
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... pronunciation . In either , nothing can supply the place of good models . The art of language being founded on imitation , the capability of practising it must be obtained by a process analogous to that by which all imitative arts are ...
... pronunciation . In either , nothing can supply the place of good models . The art of language being founded on imitation , the capability of practising it must be obtained by a process analogous to that by which all imitative arts are ...
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... pronunciation ; Prosody , which teaches the accent and quantity of syllables , and the measure of verse ; Synonymy , which exhibits the shades of difference between words of apparently similar meaning ; Rhetoric , which explains ...
... pronunciation ; Prosody , which teaches the accent and quantity of syllables , and the measure of verse ; Synonymy , which exhibits the shades of difference between words of apparently similar meaning ; Rhetoric , which explains ...
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... pronunciation may soon be rendered as familiar to the learner's ear as the spelling to his eye , we will simply recall the model - method by which nature leads so successfully to the acquisition of the second branch in the native tongue ...
... pronunciation may soon be rendered as familiar to the learner's ear as the spelling to his eye , we will simply recall the model - method by which nature leads so successfully to the acquisition of the second branch in the native tongue ...
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... pronunciation of a foreign language is attainable by any per . son who will follow the process of nature in learning it . Although , at an early age , the physical senses yield more easily to impressions , this advantage is , in adults ...
... pronunciation of a foreign language is attainable by any per . son who will follow the process of nature in learning it . Although , at an early age , the physical senses yield more easily to impressions , this advantage is , in adults ...
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