WORKS EDITED BY C. LENSTRÖM. A New, Practical and Easy Method of Learning the The simplest Grammar published in England for self-instruction. Cloth Echo of Spoken Swedish. Conversations on Topics of Interest, Cloth 92 pages, net The object of this book is to familiarise the learner with the spoken or colloquial language by means of conversations such as they really occur. The author has contrived not only to give the genuine idiom, but also to present in an attractive form a number of lively sketches, quite up to date, of his country and people, imparting to the student much valuable and interesting information likely to be of use for commercial purposes or when travelling abroad. s. d. 3 0 2 0 2 O A NEW PRACTICAL AND EASY METHOD OF LEARNING THE SWEDISH LANGUAGE. INCLUDING RULES FOR PRONUNCIATION BY C. LENSTRÖM EDITOR OF SWEDISH AND ENGLISH IDIOMATIC PHRASES AND DIALOGUES' NEW EDITION LONDON HACHETTE AND COMPANY 18 KING WILLIAM STREET, CHARING CROSS 1908 All rights reserved PD 5111 L4 1908. PREFACE THE study of foreign languages having become general, the methods of teaching them have altered and improved, so as to unite the changes which philology has suggested with those which the comparison of languages has taught. The present Series of Cheap and Popular Grammars for the Study of European Languages has been published with this aim in view. These Grammars combine Theory with Practice, and their method and arrangement have been based upon the recommendations of eminent authorities as to the clearest and most rational method of teaching languages. Seidenstücker was the first who introduced this new method for the Latin, Greek, and French languages, and to him belongs the merit of having devised a rational system of tuition. There was, however, one essential point omitted even in these books, namely that the grammatical form should precede the Exercises, so that the learner should at once be made acquainted with the grammatical structure of the foreign language, without which he could never attain a thorough knowledge of it. This defect has been remedied in the present series, and the following 946 |