Présentation de l'éditeur
It has long been recognized by both teachers and students of languages that no grammar manual of the ordinary, formal kind, no matter how well arranged, is capable of affording the student all the assistance and information he requires when studying a conversational course compiled on up-to-date lines. It lies in the very nature of such a course that the student finds himself immersed, so to speak, at the very outset, in the speech of the people of the country the language of which he is studying, hearing it as spoken by them amongst themselves in their everyday life. This is one of the outstanding merits of the method embodied in theL inguaphone Conversational Courses ;when listening to theL inguaphone Language Records the student hears what one might call a readymade language, which he learns in the same way as he would learn it if he went to live in the country to which it belongs, that is, by hearing it spoken by natives of that country. A grammar of the ordinary kind, on the other hand, can only lead him, step by step, through the often bewildering maze of grammatical rules and forms, can feed his mind only with the dry bones of the theory of the language ;it cannot present the language to him as the living entity that it is in reality. And yet some aid in gaining a knowledge of the grammatical structure of the language is necessary for the attainment of a complete mastery of it within a reasonable time. Although a man who hears a foreign language constantly spoken will in course of time learn to speak it himself, he will do so much more quickly if he has a friend at hand to help him over the grammatical difficulties and idiomatic snags which he will inevitably encounter, and to explain intricacies for which he would be unable to find explanations unaided. The recognition of this necessity has led theL inguaphone Institute to provide students of its Ita
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