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TEACH YOURSELF BOOKS
FRENCH
Anyone who studies this book conscientiously should be able at the end to read any novel or newspaper, to write understandable French, though it won't be faultless,
and to find his way about France without choosing toothpicks on the
menu instead of soup, or telling an astonished waiter that he has an enormous wife, when he really means that he is very hungry. In other words, he will know quite a lot of French and something about France and be in a position to get to know a great deal more about both.
Teach Yourself
FRENCH
A witty foreigner once wrote a book called The English, are they Human ? to which question he gave a qualified assent. Students in this country learning French early in the present century might equally well have entertained doubts of the human qualities of a race which, to judge from the sentences provided for translation, displayed such passionate interest in the whereabouts of a gardener's cat or of 'la plume de ma tante'.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

TEACH YOURSELF BOOKS
FRENCH
Anyone who studies this book conscientiously should be able at the end to read any novel or newspaper, to write understandable French, though it won't be faultless,
and to find his way about France without choosing toothpicks on the
menu instead of soup, or telling an astonished waiter that he has an enormous wife, when he really means that he is very hungry. In other words, he will know quite a lot of French and something about France and be in a position to get to know a great deal more about both.
Teach Yourself
FRENCH
A witty foreigner once wrote a book called The English, are they Human ? to which question he gave a qualified assent. Students in this country learning French early in the present century might equally well have entertained doubts of the human qualities of a race which, to judge from the sentences provided for translation, displayed such passionate interest in the whereabouts of a gardener's cat or of 'la plume de ma tante'. Things have improved since now distant days. Better manuals and textbooks, different teaching methods, holidays abroad, broadcasting for
schools, language laboratories—all
I
these and other developments have ij. done and will continue to do much to
promote the learning of foreign languages—and to the many good reasons for learning a language is now added an economic and business one. But valuable and important as recent I aids to teaching undoubtedly are, there
; i is Still use for a solid foundation of
'' /; grammatical knowledge. It is the purpose
( ' of Teach Yourself French to provide this.
' It does not demand any previous
' ' acquaintance with French. It steers a
, . middle course between the old-
t fashioned fatuity and the modern slang.
I N It contains ail the essential points of
grammar which are illustrated by the • iM sentences. Vissza