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Title: Paginas Sudamericanas

Author: Helen Phipps

Release Date: May 25, 2004 [EBook #12435]

Language: Spanish with English

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PAGINAS SUDAMERICANAS

BY

_Helen Phipps_

Instructor in Spanish in the University of Texas

New York, 1920

PREFACE

This book is largely adapted from bulletins and articles issued by the
Pan American Union. Such informational matter, free from indirect
constructions, lends itself admirably to the direct method, and it is
hoped that the book may prove especially useful in classes where this
method is used.

The author's intention, in the present work, is to supply conversation
and composition material for classes taught by the direct method, or
reading material for classes taught otherwise. The book might either
follow such a textbook as Hall's _All Spanish Method_ or be used in
connection with it. The Spanish-English vocabulary which has been
provided for the book is included simply as a concession to the present
transitional stage of modern language instruction.

The vocabulary does not claim to be complete; it does not include words
of more or less identical spelling in Spanish and English, or
derivatives where primitives are given, or the much used forms which are
certain to be learned by any student who has advanced to the point of
reading continuous discourse.

A word of explanation as to the spelling of Brazilian geographical names
may not be out of place. It seemed preferable to give the exact
Portuguese form rather than the Spanish form; hence such words as _rio_
and _bahia,_ which are accented in Spanish, are given without the accent
in Brazilian place names.

For the most effective use of this book, pictures, maps, and objects, in
addition to the illustrations of the book, will be found helpful. The
_Bulletin of the Pan American Union_ is invaluable as a means of
securing interest in the Latin American countries. Par