Chinese Lessons for First Year Students in West China (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Omar L. Kilborn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330352734 ISBN 13 : 9781330352731

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

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The first business of the missionary on arrival inC hina is to get the language .A nd most missions now allow the first two years for language study. We might better avoid that word allow ;saying rather that a minimum of two years is rzr by most missions for language study, during which period no other responsibility is put upon the new worker. I believe that we shall soon come to the point when no new worker will be given more than partial responsibility during his third and perhaps his fourth years, so that he may have large freedom for perfecting himself in the language, and in methods and principles of work. In the acquisition of Chinese, the ability to speak and to hear comes first in importance; much farther down in the scale comes reading; and much lower still, the ability to write Chinese characters. All four processes should be carried on together, but far the most emphasis placed on the first two, and the least emphasis on the last, at any rate in the first year. It is clear that a word or a sentence which we are able to speak and to hear, will be easily picked up in the character. To reverse the process is like the study of the dead languages. The principle that 1have had in mind in the preparation of these sentences is the supreme importance of the spoken language, as compared with the characters. I believe that we should first study ivords and sentences, not characters, and not even idioms. This is surely the natural order; for man learned to speak long ages before he ever thought of writing. Neither did he learn idioms first; he began to speak, and when he had learned to write his speech, he began to discover or to make order and unity, and to designate some of his peculiarities of speech as idioms. But what words and sentences shall we study .
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1330352734
• ISBN 13: 9781330352731
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible