While the skilful teacher may well employ his own method for this text, it is recommended, in general, that the phonetic transcription should first be carefully read, so that the correct pronunciation indicated by the symbols may be transferred to the regular text. In conclusion we ought to state that we have had more particularly in mind beginning college students in preparing this text. Most readers, it is true, are announced as equally well adapted for college and high school use. If these claims are well founded there is no reason why this text should not serve as well in secondary schools as in college classes, since the first selections are very easy and can be taken up early. However, in case a teacher does not accept the principle that the same reading is equally suitable for both grades of students, it seems but fair that he should be told for which class a book is chiefly prepared. MADISON, WISCONSIN, H. A. S. J. H. G. All the other consonant sounds are pronounced approximately as in English. : indicates that the preceding vowel is long. Half lengths are not indicated. • indicates that the consonant above or below becomes voiceless by assimilation with the following voiceless consonant. indicates linking of a consonant to the preceding vowel when, because of the dropping of an [ə], a group of consonants might seem hard to pronounce. 1 It must be clearly understood that these are only "approximates." We take it for granted that the student has been taught the French sounds and knows how they differ from the English. 2 Like German ü. 3 Like German ö. 4 Like the u in rue pronounced rapidly before another vowel sound in the same syllable. Avoid w sound. |