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Excerpt from A Pronouncing German Reader: To Which Is Added Method of Learning to Read and Understand the German Language, With or Without a Teacher
That the learning of a language is a task, a tedious and a difiicult task, will be admitted by all those who have learned, and by those who have taught languages. Great progress has, however, of late been made in the teaching of modern languages; several systems, such as that of Manesca or of Ollendorfi', that of Robertson, have been widely introduced, and have almost driven out the old theoretical system of teaching. But Ollendor¿s system, though, according to my opinion, the safest to learn to Speak a language, requires considerable tim0 before the pupil begins to read and understand. I have myself for the last nine years made use of Manesca's and Ollendoriis books, but I have always commenced read ing and translating into English the very first lessons, so that many of my pupils, when they have gone through the first twenty lessons in Ollendorfis Grammar, are able to translate an easy German book by the aid of a dictionary.
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