COMPLETE SYSTEM OF FRENCH PRONUNCIATION, ARRANGED Upon the Principle of Analysis ; Peculiarly adapted TO GIVE A CORRECT PRONUNCIATION IN READING OR SPEAKING FRENCH; To which is added, A COPIOUS VOCABULARY, divided intO CHAPTERS, EACH OF WHICH IS FOLLOWED BY A SET OF IDIOMATICAL PHRASES ON THE SAME SUBJECT; THE WHOLE PERFECTLY CALCULATED TO FACILITATE BY J. CH. TARVER, FRENCH MASTER, ETON. LONDON: DULAU AND CO. 37, SOHO SQUARE; WILLLIAMS, ETON COLLEGE. PREFACE. EVERY thing which tends to render study less difficult, must be welcome to the learner.-It is in this view that the present work has been compiled-and its objet is THE PRONUNCIA TION OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE. It seems but reasonable to say, that it is as necessary to know the rudiments of the pronunciation, as those of the syntax, of a language; that method and arrangement are best calculated to simplify the task of learning; and that the difficulties, really existing, must be greatly lessened if their cause and origin be explained. The progress of any undertaking must necessarily be more rapid, and its certainty of success greater, if, before we enter upon it, we have fully considered how to set about it. This is strictly applicable to the English, desirous of reading or speaking French. Languages have each their peculiar sounds-these sounds are produced by different means. In speaking French, for instance, the organs of speech act in a very different way from that |
