To Teachers.

TEACHERS are recommended to adopt the following gradual classification, which embraces an efficient and complete system of Instruction in the French language, divided into three periods or sessions of study.

FIRST PERIOD, OR BEGINNERS' CLASS.

Exercises on Pronunciation.

Grammar, with Exercises.

Translation of the Introduction to French Literature.
Conversations (First Series).

It may be found that, after the third session, pupils will not have reached that thorough knowledge and fluency which some desire to possess: in such case, the study might be continued during a fourth session, for a rapid revision of the whole course.

THE

COMPLETE FRENCH CLASS-BOOK,

EMBRACING

Grammar, Conversation, and Literature :

IN FOUR PARTS.

PART FIRST.

PRONUNCIATION,

AND

GRAMMAR WITH EXERCISES.

W w (called double v, might be added, as many foreign words which have that letter have been adopted into the French Language.)

2. The twenty-five letters of the French Alphabet are divided into six vowels, or simple soun ls, and nineteen consonants, or letters sounded with the aid of the vowels.

3. The six vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and y.

4. The nineteen consonants are b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, x, 2.

5. The letters of the French Alphabet are not so numerous as the elementary sounds they are used to represent. That deficiency of letters is partly made up by the use of marks, called Accent (accent), Tréma (diæresis), Cédille (cedilla), and also by various graphical combinations of two or more letters in a diphthong.

66

vi

66

virtuous.

X

mix (stronger.)

แ

So reasonably.

GRAPHICAL COALITIONS OF LETTERS,

Representing the Simple and Compound Sounds of the Diphthongs.