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Excerpt from The Germans at Home: A Practical Introduction to German Conversation, With an Appendix Containing, the Essentials of German Grammar
Rationally the pupil cannot be expected to enter into the spirit and genius of a living language, merely by having placed before him a set of rules and a list of words - things dead in themselves, and hard to deal with. This may be right enough for the study of a dead language, but it will not do for that of a living one. Here the ear, the eye, the tongue, the imagination, in fact all the pupil's faculties must be exercised alike. Materials and facts must be gathered, learnt and, by various processes of teaching, so firmly impressed upon the mind of the pupil, that he may draw, from his own observation, and often instinctively, as it were, inferences and rules from them to guide him in his progress. After the pupil, however, has been made acquainted with materials and facts, sufficient to Show him something of the real life and the genius of the language, let us begin to explain to him the facts by laws and rules, which, however, by his own power of observation and comparison, he will have formed, to some extent, for himself already.
Having explained the principles upon which the 'method' is based, I will say a few words about the leading features of the present little volume.
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