Die Neueren Sprachen, Volume 3

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Wilhelm Viëtor
Diesterweg, 1896 - Languages, Modern
Vols. 1-5 include a separately paged section "Phonetische Studien. Beiblatt."
 

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Page 447 - Au jour des cruelles épreuves, quand on croirait que le cœur est desséché à force de dédaigner ou à force de souffrir, tout à coup on se rappelle, comme dans une vision enchantée, ces mille riens qu'on, ne pourrait pas raconter et qui font tressaillir, ces pleurs, ces baisers, ce cher sourire, ce grave et doux enseignement murmuré d'une voix si touchante. La source vive de la morale n'est que là: nous pouvons écrire des livres et faire des théories sur le devoir et le sacrifice ; mais...
Page 276 - ... in ten months. The pronunciation of the former also is much better than that of the latter. The most remarkable result, however, of the new method is the interest it awakens in the pupils. They are sorry when the French lesson is done and beg the mistress to give them another. We overhear them going through the series by themselves ; and sometimes during the English lesson when they are at a loss for an expression they involuntarily use a French phrase.
Page 447 - Comme il n'ya pas de religion sans temple, il n'ya pas de famille sans l'intimité du foyer domestique. L'enfant qui a dormi dans le berceau banal de la crèche, et qui n'a pas été embrassé à la lumière du jour par les deux seuls êtres dans le monde qui l'aiment d'un amour exclusif, n'est pas armé pour les luttes de la vie.
Page 269 - ... training. The facility with which even the boy of nine could act as interpreter, and the wonderful ease with which the elder ones rendered in idiomatic French a most difficult passage, chosen at random from an English daily paper, showed conclusively that they had gained a mastery over the language which will enable them to converse with any Frenchman on any topic short of distinctively " special
Page 266 - Biarritz, and a supposed business interview for the bargaining for an indefinite number of animals of various sizes and descriptions. The subjects were selected by those present. After this Jack acted as interpreter between two ladies present with reference to obtaining rooms in Paris. The elder boys now repeated in French a discussion held previously in English between Mr. Storr, Mr. Swan and M.
Page 267 - Mr. Swan had claimed when he came to me six months ago. Reports from those present. I append the written statements of those who were present, each of which has been written independently, which supplement and confirm my own impression as to the results which have been obtained. My boys had never before been at any examination of a quasi-public nature , and anyone who has had to undergo an examination in the presence of half a dozen strangers, in the native language of some of them, can understand...
Page 271 - ... their ideas. Of course they were not always fluent and correct. But even French children in similar circumstances would have occasionally hesitated and made some grammatical mistake. Even English adults, if set on the spur of the moment to describe an object in their own language, would not have been absolutely without a mistake. In fact, I could not help noticing that the keenest critic present at the examination, while drawing up an English passage to be translated into French, made a slight...
Page 447 - Dieu n'a pas été plus clément, qui soit pour tous les membres de la famille comme une patrie plus étroite et plus chère , à laquelle on songe pendant le travail et la peine, et qui reste dans les souvenirs de toute la vie associé à la pensée des êtres aimés que l'on a perdus.

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