D. Appleton & Company's Educational Publications OF LEARNING TO READ, WRITE, AND SPEAK THE GERMAN LANGUAGE. deprinted from the Frankfort edition, to which is added a Systematic Outline of the different Parts of Speech, their Inflection and Use, with fuil Paradigms, and a complete list of the Irreg ular Verbs. By GEORGE ADLER, A. B., of the University of the City of New-York. One handsome 12mo. volume. $1 50. CLLENDORFF's NEW METHOD OF LEARNING TO READ, WRITE AND SPEAK THE GERMAN LANAGE, has had an extensive circulation in England, and its demand in this country also has constantly been increasing of late. Nor is its popularity undeserved; for it supplies a deficiency which has been long and deeply felt by all those who have engaged in either teaching or learning the German. The German has hitherto been treated too mnch like a dead language; and hence many, disasted with the cumbrous terminology and crabbed rules which in the very outset met their eye, have given up the acquisition of the language in despair. Ollendorff has completely remedied this evil. Beginning with the simplest phrases, he gradually introduces every principle of Grammar; and he does it by interblending the rules with such copious exercises and idiomatic expres sions, that by a few months' diligent application, and under the guidance of a skilful instructor, My one may acouire every thing that is essential to enable him to read, to write, and to converse in the language In a separate volume, uniform with the Grammar, A KEY TO THE EXERCISES. Price 75 cents. OLLENDORFF'S NEW METHOD OF LEARNING TO READ, WRITE, AND SPEAK THE FRENCH LANGUAGE. With an Appendix, containing the Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers, and full Paradigms of the Regular and Irregular, Auxiliary, Reflective, and Impersonal Verbs. By J. L. JEWETT. One volume 12mo. $1 The plan pursued in teaching the French is substantially the same with that developed in the German Method. Avoiding the exclusively didactic character of the older treatises on the ane hand, and the tedious prolixity of detail which encumbers modern systems on the other, OlLendorff combines and thoroughly teaches at once both the theory and practice of the language. 'The student who pursues his method will therefore be relieved from the apprehension of either forgetting his rules before practice has grounded him in their principles, or of learning sentences by rote which he cannot analyze. Speaking and writing French, which in other systems is deayed until the learner is presumed to be master of Etymology and Syntax, and consequently is seldom acquired, by this method is commenced with the first lesson, continued throughout, and made the efficient means of acquiring almost imperceptibly, a thorough knowledge of grammar; and this without diverting the learner's attention for a moment from the language itself, with which he is naturally most desirous of becoming familiar. The text of Ollendorff, carefully revised and corrected, is given in the present edition without abridgment. To this the American editor has added an Appendix, corning the Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers, and full conjugation of all the Verbs. The work 3 tidered complete aud the necessity of consulting other treatises is wholly obviated. A KEY TO THE exercises, in a separate Volume. Price 75 co OF LEA"NING TO READ, WRITE, AND SPEAK THE With Additions and Corrections, by FELIX FORESTI, Prof. of the Italian Language in Columbia M. Ollendorff's System, applied to the study of the Italian Language, possesses all the advan ages of his method of learning the German and French, and will undoubtedly, as its merits de tame known, take the place of all other grammars. A KEY TO THE EXERCISES, separate Volume. Price 75 cents NEW METHOD OF LEARNING TO READ, WRITE, AND SPEAK THE SPANISH LANGUAGE. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING A brief, but comprehensive Recapitulation of the Rules, as well as of all the Verbs, both Regular and Irregular, so as to render their use easy and familiar to the most ordinary capacity. TOGETHER WITH PRACTICAL RULES FOR SPANISH PRONUNCIATION, AND MODELS OF SOCIAL AND COMMERCIAL CORRESPONDENCE. THE WHOLE DESIGNED FOR YOUNG LEARNERS AND PERSONS WHO ARE THEIR OWN INSTRUCTORS. BY M. VELASQUEZ AND F. SIMMONNÉ, The plan of this work is substantially the same with that of the French, German, and Italian Grammars of Professor Ollendorff. It consists of a series of lessons, so arranged as gradually to eliminate every idiom and construction of the language, and to impart to the scholar a thorough knowledge of both its theory and practice. When it is considered that Ollendorff's works have taken the precedence, both in Europe and the United States, in the well-cultivated fields of French and German philology, those who are acquainted with the peculiarly defective and insufficient character of elementary treatises on the Spanish language, will at once appreciate the importance and utility of the present work. IN PREPARATION. A NEW SPANISH READER, CONSISTING OF EXTRACTS FROM THE WORKS OF THE MOST APPROVED DRAMATISTS AND PROSE WRITERS, ARRANGED IN PROGRESSIVE ORDER, WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THOSE WHO WISH TO OBTAIN A PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE LANGUAGE. WITH NOTES EXPLANATORY OF THE IDIOMS AND MOST DIFFICULT CONSTRUCTIONS. One Volume, 12mo. A NEW DICTIONARY OF THE SPANISH AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES. A NEW DICTIONARY OF THE GERMAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES. BASED ON THE DICTIONARIES OF HILPERT, FLUGEL, GRIEB, ETC. Prof. of the German Language and Literature in the University of New-York City Also, in One Volume, 12mo, AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE SAME, NEW METHOD OF LEARNING TO READ, WRITE, AND SPEAK: THE SPANISH LANGUAGE: WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING A BRIEF, BUT COMPREHENSIVE RECAPITULATION OF THE RULES, AS WELL AS TO RENDER THEIR USE EASY AND FAMILIAR TO THE MOST ORDINARY CAPACITY. Entered, according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1848, By D. APPLETON & COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. NOTICE.-A KEY to the Exercises of this Grammar is published in a separate Volume. PREFACE. THE superiority of OLLENDORFF'S METHOD of teaching languages is now so universally acknowledged, both in the United States and in Europe, that an adaptation of it to the EUPHONIC CASTILIAN, OF SPANISH LANGUAGE, must be considered as a desideratum to persons wishing to learn it. Divested of the abstractedness of Grammar, it contains, however, all its elements; but it develops them so gradually, and in so simple a manner, as to render them intelligible to the most ordinary capacity. The difficulties are met singly, thoroughly analyzed, and made familiar by dint of a varied and interesting repetition,—the most effectual means to impress them on young and unlearned minds, generally averse to thought or reflection, and always prone to trust to their undisciplined memory, a power often treacherous from want of proper direction. It is, therefore, hardly possible to go through this book with any degree of application, without becoming thoroughly conversant with the colloquial, idiomatic, and classic use of the Spanish language. Consequently, persons transacting business in the countries of which the Spanish is the vernacular tongue, will find this work to be their best guide in learning to speak it with propriety. For the benefit of persons grammatically acquainted with the English, or other languages, a Synopsis of the Spanish has been annexed as an Appendix, containing tables of the regular conjugations of the verbs, copious lists of the irregular verbs, general rules of etymology, syntax, &c., by means of which they may learn all the peculiarities of the Spanish, and make themselves perfect masters of it in a very short time, without the assistance of a teacher. |