French Dialogues and Phrases e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. By far the greater portion of those who apply themselves to the study of a foreign language, recoil from the difficulties which they meet in their attempts to speak it, and to understand it when spoken; and they thus deprive themselves of the greatest advantage which it offers in their intercourse with society. This talent is to be acquired neither from grammars, nor yet from the perusal of those works which justly constitute the literature of a language. The truth of this remark, were it not self-evident, has been amply demonstrated by experience. In addition to grammatical knowledge, it is necessary that the organ of speech should be bent to the idiom, and the ear frequently struck by a repetition of the same sounds.