time to be able to read French without any assistance except *hat afforded by consulting his Grammar and Dictionary.

7. The zealous and intelligent student of French pronunciacion will render his labours prodigiously more efficacious by carrying out fully the principle of frequent and careful reviewal of his lessons. He will find some hints which he can easily adapt to this purpose in article 8 of the "Method of Study, at pages xix. xx. of the "Interlinear Reader."

* The two consonants g and j are sounded in the Alphabet like s in pleasure.

+ There is no approximate sound of the French u in English.

There is no w in French, but whenever it occurs in foreign names

.w sounded like v ܪ

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II.

THE VOWEL SOUNDS.

The Simple or Vowel Sounds in the French language are nineteen in number, as follows:

We see from the above table that seven sounds have no standard in the English language.

The u can be obtained in the following manner. Articulate first the sound ee, as in eel; then close your lips a little, and articulate the sound of u.

The sound û is the same in quality, but longer.

The sound eû is nearly the same in quality as that of u in the English word sun, but longer and closer.

An approximate to an may be found in antique; to in in length; to on in long; and to un in rung. These are termed nasal sounds.

III.

THE DIPHTHONGS.

The Diphthongs in the French language are twenty-six in number. They are as follows:

ia...exemplified in..verbiage. | ieu..exemplified in... milieu.

assied. ieû....

NOTE 1. The French and English words given as examples in the foregoing table of "The Vowel Sounds" are used in the Running Pronunciation, or Key, at the head of the pages in Part I. of this work.

NOTE 2. The French words given as examples in the foregoing tables of "The Vowel Sounds" and "The Diphthongs,' all recur in the First Fable in this work.

NOTE 3. The sounds of such Consonants as differ from the English, will be found in the "Rules of Pronunciation" at the end of the work.