The Loom of Language: A Guide to Foreign Languages for the Home Student

Bodmer, Frederick; Hogben, Lancelot Thomas

ISBN 10: 0850363500 / ISBN 13: 9780850363500

Published by Merlin Pr, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Loom of Language: A Guide to Foreign Languages for the Home Student
• Publisher: Merlin Pr
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0850363500
• ISBN 13: 9780850363500
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 3.18W x 13.97H x 21.59D centimeters 3.18 centimeters width by 13.97 centimeters height by 21.59 centimeters depth
• Weight: 726 grams

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Synopsis

Originally published in 1944 as one of the Primers for the Age along with Mathematics for the Million and Science for the Citizen, this well-loved book has worked its way through many impressions and influenced the whole approach to language teaching.

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Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages -- Teutonic, Romance, Greek -- helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a language as it is actually used in everyday life.