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NEW METHOD OF LEARNING

THE SWEDISH LANGUAGE ·

WORKS EDITED BY C. LENSTRÖM.

A New, Practical and Easy Method of Learning the
Swedish Language. Including Rules for Pronunciation,
Exercises, Reading Lessons with Interlinear Translations,
Lists of Useful Words, Dialogues, Reading Extracts, etc.
150 pages, Crown 8vo. Cloth

The simplest Grammar published in England for self-instruction.
Swedish and English Idiomatic Phrases and Dialogues.
Lists of Useful Words, Familiar and Practical Conversations,
Idiomatic Expressions, a Table of Swedish Monies with
English Equivalents, etc. 150 pages, Small 8vo.

Cloth

Echo of Spoken Swedish. Conversations on Topics of Interest,
introducing numerous Phrases and Idiomatic Expressions in
constant Use. Systematically arranged in short Chapters for
Reading purposes, Vivâ-voce Exercise, and Practice in Fluent
Speaking. Edited by Dr. ALFRED SVENSSON.
Crown 8vo.

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.

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A NEW

PRACTICAL AND EASY METHOD

OF LEARNING THE

SWEDISH LANGUAGE.

INCLUDING RULES FOR PRONUNCIATION
EXERCISES, READING LESSONS, LISTS OF USEFUL
WORDS, DIALOGUES, ETC. ETC.

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

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