oses taking the examination in French or English. In a few days
he will receive full details as to the official programme.

Should the candidate choose to go up for the examination in English,
it will be necessary for him to translate an Esperanto extract into
English, and an English extract into Esperanto. The list of questions
will contain a series of grammatical points and an exercise on
Esperanto pronunciation. In order to illustrate the latter, I
employed the excellent phonetic system which appeared on page 25 of
The Esperantist, No. 2.

Having written to our Friend-in-Esperanto, Mr. Mann, of Paris, to
learn his opinion with regard to special preparation for the
examination, I received the following valuable reply:--

"As for the most effective and successful method of studying for the
examination, I should recommend, after mastering the _Complete
Text-Book_, a careful reading of _Hamlet_ and the _Fundamenta
Krestomatio_, with _Esperanta Sintakso_, by Fruictier. For example,
take some anecdote from the _Krestomatio_. Read it two or three times
aloud. Then ask yourself various questions by words such as _Who (m),
Whose, Where (Whither), How, Why, When?_ To vary the study repeat the
anecdote, using tenses other than those employed in the text itself.
For example, the text possibly narrates the matter as having happened
at some past time. Well, the student could remodel the anecdote,
placing the concatenation of events in the Present AS, or in the
Future OS; and afterwards in the compound tenses: _Estis ... inta
(j)_, k.t.p. In this manner the study really becomes interesting, and
the pupil will very soon master Esperanto's very simple Grammar.

"One can also adopt another course with good results. With the aid of
the _English-Esperanto Dictionary_ one can train one's self as
follows. While performing any actions one can name them in Esperanto.
Thus, getting up early (or late) in the morning, enumerate the series
of actions. I get up, I stand up, I put on my stockings, etc. I am
dressed (I was about to be dressed). I wash, I have breakfast, I
work, etc. All these actions can be analyzed and extended, and supply
most interesting imaginary conversations and grammatical exercises.

That is the famous Gouin method of studying languages; it gives
remarkable results. Thus words and expressions are preserved in the
memory, and one does not wearily learn new words parrot-method. And
such a system is practicable for conve