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Title: The Aural System

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: June 19, 2009 [eBook #29163]

Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AURAL SYSTEM***

Transcribed from the 1895 Thomas Brown pamphlet by David Price,
ccx074@pglaf.org

[ENTERED AT STATIONER'S HALL.]

THE AURAL SYSTEM;

BEING

THE MOST DIRECT,

THE STRAIGHT-LINE METHOD

FOR THE

SIMULTANEOUS FOURFOLD MASTERY

OF A

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

TEACHING SIMULTANEOUSLY TO

SPEAK, UNDERSTAND, READ, AND WRITE,

BY

A Linguist of nearly 40 years standing, and nearly 20 years resident
abroad.

* * * * *

BRADFORD:
THOS. BROWN, PRINTER, 311, MANCHESTER ROAD.
1895.

_Respecting the time required to learn a language_, _the writer ventures
to recommend the way he himself took when a boy to solve this question_.
_Having made choice of a known grammar_, _the exercises of which promise
a satisfactory degree of proficiency_, _let the student affix to each and
all of the lessons at the outset_, _the dates when they are to be done
and observe them_. _Some weeks a little perseverance and determination
may be necessary_, _but let him be inflexible with himself_, _curtail his
indulgences if required and his task will be done with ease_.

_Subsequent studies are pleasant and easy_.

* * * * *

Some time ago, a Mr. Wm. Rodger came down from Glasgow for the purpose of
showing how foreign languages should be taught. He brought on a
gentleman, a clergyman from Leeds, who had gone through Otto's German
Grammar without being able either to speak or understand German; this
g