FRENCH LESSONS BY HENRI BUÉ, B.-ès-L., FRENCH MASTER AT MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL, LONDON. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: BIBLIOTHECA DEC 80 DULAU & CO., 37, SOHO SE W NA HACHETTE & CO., 18, KING WILL STREET, J. S. LEVIN, ENGLISH AND FOREIGN STEAM PRINTER, 2, MARK LANE SQUARE, GREAT TOWER STREET, LONDON, E.C. PREFACE. THE Compiler of this little book has had in view to teach the young beginner as many French words as possible in the least tedious manner. He has found by experience that what children dislike most to learn are lists of words, however useful and well chosen, and that they very soon get weary of disconnected sentences, but commit to memory most readily a short nursery rhyme, anecdote, or fable. Hence the seiection he has made. Le Corbeau et le Renard (Jean de La Fontaine, La Cigale et la Fourmi (by the same) La Grenouille et le Boeuf (by the same) ... 40 42 47 La Poule aux œufs d'or (Jean de La Fontaine) Le Lion et le Rat (by the same) ... ... La Colombe et la Fourmi (by the same) LESSON I. THE ALPHABET. a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z. Names of the Letters in French. a, bé, cé, dé, é, effe, gé, h, i, ji, ka, elle, emme, enne, o, pé, qu, erre, esse, té, u, vé, double vé, ikse, i grec, zède. Exercise 1. Name the following Letters in French. v, g, t, d, j, h, y, r, w, i, q, k, h, f. |