The Berlitz system I employed years ago in learning Arabic.."
My tongue would never have twisted round its ghains • and Khesand quafs without the help of an Arab employed by this excellent institution. _Then there is the Pelman method, of - which I hear favourable reports, although I have not tried it myself. There are no vocabularies to be memorized in this system and no complex grammatical rules to be mastered. It teaches itself, so to speak, even as the. mewling infant develOps into the orator. The system is simple and ingenious, and.. carries the reader along without unnecessary drudgery. Surveying this earth, so
" rich in man and maid
• - with fair horizons bound," one. Wonders why more people do not take the trouble to learn some language besides their own. The,exereise is. really not more • strenuous than a cross-word puzzle ; the satisfaction and.,..reiiard incomparably superior.. Emerson said something so apt about that that it has become a cliche.• ,
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