French Dialogues and Phrases - With an English Translation: Consisting of Thirty-Six Conversations on Familiar Subjects, and a Collection of Idioms and Proverbs; The Calculated to Facilitate the Study of the French Language; And Partic... #247354

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.