The loom of language: a guide to foreign languages for the home student

Frederick Bodmer

ISBN 10: 0044000030 / ISBN 13: 9780044000037

Published by W. W. Norton, 1944

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669 pages. dj wornThe Loom of Language by Frederick BODMER.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The loom of language: a guide to foreign languages for the home student
• Publisher: W. W. Norton
• Publication Date: 1944
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0044000030
• ISBN 13: 9780044000037
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
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The Loom of Language by Frederick BODMER.

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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.