JUNIOR FRENCH COURSE FOR ENGLISH STUDENTS. CONTAINING A Grammar of the French Accidence; Examples illustrative of the Grammatical Principles; Progressive French and English Exercises for Reading A Treatise on French Pronunciation; and BY GUSTAVE VIGNON, B.Sc., Master of the French Language and Literature at the Edinburgh Academy. EDINBURGH: JAMES THIN, 54 & 55 SOUTH BRIDGE. PREFACE. THE leading feature of the present work, which is intended for Pupils who have already a slight knowledge of French, is the distribution of the subject-matter into Lessons of two pages; each lesson further consisting of the following uniform subdivisions: 1. Grammar and Questions ; 2. Vocabulary, the first column of which is illustrative of the Pronunciation, or a Reading Lesson, intended for the same purpose; 3. Succinct Examples of the Grammatical Rules to which they are referred by means of Numerals; 4. A Practical Exercise to be read aloud in French and translated into English; and 5. A Theoretical Exercise to be turned into French. The advantage of this arrangement is obvious, and though each Lesson forms an organic whole, any Part or combination of Parts, may be taken up as a separate Lesson, according to the time at the disposal of the Teacher, and the attainments of the Pupils. The Examples have been thus grouped together to enable Teachers to use either the inductive or the deductive method, and to exhibit a concise summary of the portion of Grammar embodied in the Lesson. The Questions on Pronunciation proceed pari passu with the Lessons, but are not integrally connected with them, so that Pupils may omit this part if limited for time. In the short Treatise on Pronunciation, beginning at page 137, an attempt has been made to give a complete and accurate exposition of the subject, the author thinking that this iv essential element of a knowledge of French is too much neglected, and that the difficulties it presents may be greatly lessoned by a methodic synopsis of the rules that regulate it. It is not intended, of course, to supersede oral instruction, but to serve merely as a guide to both Teachers and Pupils. It will be noticed also that a part of a verb is prescribed with each Lesson, so that, when the Pupil comes, in due course, to the systematic treatment of the Verb, he possesses already a competent knowledge of the subject. The Course opens with fragmentary phrases, consisting to a considerable extent of words similar in French and English, embracing a copious Vocabulary without overburdening the memory of Beginners, and giving scope for an exhaustive illustration of each Lesson, without having recourse to puerile combinations of a few familiar vocables. At the end of the book is appended a French-English and English-French Vocabulary, containing all the words required for the translation of the Reading and Grammatical Exercises to the extent of nearly 3000 words. EDINBURGH, September 1876. THE AUTHOR. INDEX. 1. Gender. The definite article le, la, les. The indefinite 2. The definite article contracted with de. The “pos- 3. The partitive article du, de la, de l', des, 7. Numeral adjectives. Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers, 8. Indefinite adjectives, plusieurs, chaque, autre, etc., 16. The disjunctive personal pronouns moi, toi, lui, elle, etc., 17. The pronouns le, la, les; lui, elle, eux, elles; en and y, 34 18. The possessive pronouns le mien, le tien, le sien, etc., 19. The relative pronouns qui, que, quoi, dont, où, 20. The relative pronouns lequel, laquelle, lesquels, lesquelles, 21. The demonstrative pronouns ce, ceci, cela, 22. The demonstrative pronouns celui, celle, ceux, celles, 23. The indefinite pronouns on, rien, personne, autrui, etc., |