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THE

SPANISH TEACHER

AND

Colloquial Phrase-Book :

AN EASY AND AGREEABLE METHOD

OF ACQUIRING A

SPEAKING KNOWLEDGE

OF THE

SPANISH LANGUAGE.

FIFTH EDITION
Revised & Corrected.

By FRANCIS BUTLER,

TEACHER AND TRANSLATOR OF LANGUAGES.

NEW-YORK:

D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 200 BROADWAY

1852.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

CIFT OF

PEORGE ARTHUR PLIMPTOM
JANUARY 25, 1924

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1849, by FRANCIS BUTLER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

PREFACE.

ALL nations have been, and continue to be, abundantly supplied with new methods of acquiring foreign languages; but, has any one of these theories succeeded to any extent in producing that speaking knowledge which is the first essential to mutual Communication ?

Tongue and language were synonymous, but the interpretation thereof has been wofully perverted; since, among the thousands in this great city who have studied a foreign language, how many may there be capable of common conversation in the tongue which they considered as a necessary appendage to a polite or commercial education? Alas! how few!

The author of this little work aims at nothing new; has no magical method of imparting a whole language for 25 cents; has no new theory to advance; but wishes herein simply to demonstrate, that if a little child can learn to speak a language without difficulty, much more easily may the same instinct matured by reason and experience, obtain the same knowledge, in the same old-fashioned way Try it; you cannot fail of success.

New York, July 4th, 1849.

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