The Practical Study of Languages: A Guide for Teachers and LearnersJ. M. Dent & Company, 1899 - 280 Seiten |
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... Pronunciation . Learning a Foreign Alphabet • PAGE 18 18 19 19 20 22 24 25 26 28 30 32 34 36 CHAPTER V VARIETIES OF PRONUNCIATION Artificial Pronunciation Degrees of Colloquialism . Standards of Pronunciation Pronunciation of Rare Words ...
... Pronunciation . Learning a Foreign Alphabet • PAGE 18 18 19 19 20 22 24 25 26 28 30 32 34 36 CHAPTER V VARIETIES OF PRONUNCIATION Artificial Pronunciation Degrees of Colloquialism . Standards of Pronunciation Pronunciation of Rare Words ...
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... Pronunciation Teaching through the Literature Cross - associations with Modern Languages Dead Methods in Modern Languages . 223 224 225 227 227 230 CHAPTER XVIII ORIENTAL LANGUAGES Adherence to Native Methods • • CONTENTS xiii.
... Pronunciation Teaching through the Literature Cross - associations with Modern Languages Dead Methods in Modern Languages . 223 224 225 227 227 230 CHAPTER XVIII ORIENTAL LANGUAGES Adherence to Native Methods • • CONTENTS xiii.
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... pronunciation . Phonetics is to the science of language generally what mathematics is to astronomy and the physical sciences . Without it , we can neither observe nor record the simplest phenomena of language . It is equally necessary ...
... pronunciation . Phonetics is to the science of language generally what mathematics is to astronomy and the physical sciences . Without it , we can neither observe nor record the simplest phenomena of language . It is equally necessary ...
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... pronunciation can be learnt by mere imitation . This is as if fencing could be learnt by looking on at other people fencing . The movements of the tongue in speaking are even quicker and more complicated than those of the foil in ...
... pronunciation can be learnt by mere imitation . This is as if fencing could be learnt by looking on at other people fencing . The movements of the tongue in speaking are even quicker and more complicated than those of the foil in ...
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... pronunciation in having whisper instead of voice in the first as well as the second consonant ! Methods of Study : Organic and Acoustic The first business of phonetics is to describe the actions of the organs of speech by which sounds ...
... pronunciation in having whisper instead of voice in the first as well as the second consonant ! Methods of Study : Organic and Acoustic The first business of phonetics is to describe the actions of the organs of speech by which sounds ...
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able abstract analysis Anglo-Saxon Arabic associations basis beginning Chinese cognate colloquial consonant construction context course cross-associations dead languages definite diacritics dialects difficulty distinction elementary Englishman European languages examples express fact Finnish foreign language French gender German give grammar and dictionary grammatical gender Greek Grimm's Law Hence idea idioms imitation imply inflections irregularities Italian kaant knowledge Latin learner learning languages letters linguistic literary language logical mastered meaning method mind modern native nomic spelling nouns Old English ordinary Organic alphabet orthography paradigms partly phonetic notation phonetic spelling phoneticians plural point of view preterite principles pronounced pronunciation purely question regards remember require result Roman alphabet Romic rules Russian alphabet Sanskrit shorthand simple sound speak speaker speech spoken language study of language subjunctive mood superfluous Swedish symbols syntax system of writing texts tion transcription translation transliteration unfamiliar unphonetic verb Visible Speech vocabulary vowel-changes vowels Welsh words written
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Seite 258 - He lingered, poring on memorials Of the world's youth ; through the long burning day Gazed on those speechless shapes ; nor, when the moon Filled the mysterious halls with floating shades Suspended he that task, but ever gazed And gazed, till meaning on his vacant mind Flashed like strong inspiration, and he saw The thrilling secrets of the birth of time.
Seite 176 - A DILLAR, a dollar, A ten o'clock scholar, What makes you come so soon? You used to come at ten o'clock But now you come at noon.
Seite 257 - His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old, — Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er of strange Sculptured on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx, Dark /Ethiopia in her desert hills Conceals.
Seite 272 - That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it : This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.
Seite 170 - Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.
Seite 76 - The fundamental objection, then, to the natural method is that it puts the adult into the position of an infant, which he is no longer capable of utilizing, and, at the same time, does not allow him to make use of his own special advantages. These advantages are, as we have seen, the power of analysis and generalization— in short, the power of using a grammar and dictionary.
Seite 55 - There is another class of difficulties which may be regarded as partly external, partly internal — those which depend on the 54 relations of the foreign language to the learner's native language, especially as regards similarity in vocabulary and structure. We are naturally inclined to assume that the nearer the foreign language is to our own, the easier it is. A Spaniard soon learns to understand Portuguese, and a Portuguese soon learns Spanish enough to understand it, a Dane soon learns to understand...
Seite 204 - German are so unsatisfactory that we ought to be ready to agree with Sweet when he says: It is evident that the impossible task of translating into an unknown or only partially known language can be accomplished only under restrictions which make it either an evasion or a failure We have also to realize what is meant by making mistakes in our exercises and correcting them afterwards. It means the laborious formation of a number of false associations which must be unlearned before the labor of forming...
Seite 171 - Swan swam over the sea; swim, swan, swim, swan swam back again, well swum swan.
Seite 72 - ... and uneducated men are not naturally bent in the material of their speech to the yoke of steady precision which is only the result of a training in educated social surroundings through several generations. Audition and articulation of language, except in the higher races, seldom arrive together at some sort of perfection in their effectiveness. For instance, we may quote the well-known fact that the acuity of the ear among the races paying peculiar attention to the colour and pitch of the vowels...