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A BRIEF GERMAN COURSE

$1.20

By C. F. KAYSER, Ph.D., Professor of German, Normal College of the City

of New York, and FREDERICK MONTESER, Ph.D., First Assistant in German,

DeWitt Clinton High School, New York

Many valuable features differentiate the Brief German Course from the

conventional beginner’s book in German. Each lesson contains one or more

topics of grammar, a special vocabulary, and exercises in reading and

writing German, with such suggestions and helps for the student as are

needed. The arrangement of the subject-matter has been determined by

pedagogic considerations and practical experience, which have led to

frequent departures from the usual sequence of topics. The

recommendations of the Modern Language Association have been followed.

¶ To secure to the pupil variety and interest in his work, and to

facilitate their mastery, the difficulties of declension and

conjugation, instead of being grouped together, as is customary, are

introduced gradually. Elementary syntax is treated from the beginning in

immediate connection with the study of forms. The rational acquisition

of a German vocabulary is facilitated by a unique treatment of word

formation. The transition from disconnected sentences to connected

reading is made simple by the use of real idiomatic German sentences,

often connected in sense.

¶ Frequent review lessons are given, containing grammatical questions,

interesting reading matter, both prose and verse, and exercises in

conversation. The reading matter, which provides an excellent

application of those grammatical principles, and only those, met in the

previous lessons, is written in an easy, fluent style, and illustrates

German life, history, geography, and literature. The book includes

complete German-English and English-German vocabularies, an appendix of

collected paradigms of declensions and conjugations, and an index.

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