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Excerpt from Colloquial and Grammatical Exercises: Intended to Impart to the Student Both a Theoretical and Practical Knowledge of the French Language
Experience, however, soon convinced them and those who subsequently entered the same profes sion, that this mode of tuition could not convey a practical knowledge of the language, -the ability of expressing one's ideas in that language and of understanding those of others when spoken. Hence the several efforts made by many to im prove the method, by publishing work after work intended to impart that great desideratum. Phras'e books of every'description were offered to teachers, tested, and proved to be inefficient; simply be cause, while they stored the memory of the stu dent with ready-made sentences, ingeniously adapted, it was'believed, to enable him to express his wants and thoughts, their authors had forgotten that man's thoughts are not'to be encompassed within the limits of an 18mo; and that, by neg leeting to enable the learner to vary those phrases to suit circumstances, they were assimilating the human mind to the parrot's power of retention.
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