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ralea medium OF the English By JEAN MA
ihfsas" Fourth Edition. New-York Rse Lockwood,
i All broadway
~. cork is already widely known and has met
* ,,eat favor Thoughit processes to establish
,., for teaching all languages, its chief utility
:, 10 found in the aid it offers to those wishing
,.,oms familiar with the French; though the
,.tod. here applied to that language, might just
readily be spilled TO any other and be quite as
.;.sable. The chief feature Of the new system.
-. understand it, is that it seeks to introduce
:. learner Of language to its vocabulary BY The
..a process which children follow: by leading
| i'm from the simplest elements, the expressions
il nbrases needed in our earliest experience,
,.3ualIy up to the philosophy of the language.
rbs beginning ia made, therefore, not with gram
-, and the philosophic structure Of the language,
I.,vi,h its simple words and sentences. We have
49, pmployed this method ourselves, nor have
lever seen it used by others: OF its merits there
+. we are not qualified to judge. It's utility and
..,,,;s,v have been questioned by men of Judge
nan, and experience, and as warmly supported by
l,.s familiar with it. 4 friend in whose judge
,snt we place great reliance has given US the fol-
| awing, which we choose to present in preference
,;sDy opinion Of our own
/ The system for teaching languages discovered
hJoHs MANrscA, Of which you ask nay opinion,
;.,be system Of nature; il - the result Of twenty
,ssrs study and observation Of a superlot mind.
i, aoeaking of this admirable method, do not
,resk at random, and without knowledge; have
.udied several languages upon the system--the
French, the Spanish, Italian, German and Latin
have examined the various methods employed in
Eutope, aud from my own observation, consider
Maae,cas system infinitely superior to all the va.
rous methods which have been pu, forth by per-
sons, seeking to abridge the labor of learning Ian
rusges In fact, it is the only method that have
yst seen that deserves the name of SYsTEM-for il
/. 3 WHOLE, complete in all its parts, based upon
the laws and principles which nature employs in
reaching language to the young mind, but embrac-
ing all the parts of language, and only modifying
natures method, so far to adopt it to mature
age, or to the mind that can reason, and bring the
aid of reflection and thought to bear in the study
o. language, whereas the child brings only in
.tinct.
"The method of Manesca can be applied to the
acquisition of any branch of knowledge, in which
the physical organs have TO be exercised, disci-
plned or taught in conjunction with thought ana
feeling. For example in learning language:
set of signs called words, which represent ideas
and sentiments, must be learned, and the organs
Of.peech must be accustomed TO pronounce them
with ease and rapidly; the work is difficult and
great one, and the true system for doing il must
consequently be based upon profound scientific
principles Nlancsca's method could be admlra-
bly, applied to Music, and to all branches OF hui
man knowledge in which, as we said, the use OF
the physical organs and the use of thoughts and
ideas must be learned jointly. Hence it is uni
,ersal method, and it will, sooner or later be ap-
Piled believe, universally.
"a good system is, in learning language, as we
know by experience, ''haf the battle, and to
persons who do not wish to waste their time, pa
tience ana money, aid run the risk OF being dis
susted and abandoning the study of language, we
would recommend a trial at least OF Manesca
sys,em-although to appreciate it fully, person
should first rack his patience and memory IN
learning unmeaning phrases, difficult conJugations
of verbs and separate nouns and adlectives by
ro,e out of grammars and dictionaries. With
Manesca's system, there is no learning by rote-
no conjugating strings Of uncollh sounding words
mo porting over unintelligi5le dictionaries ana
grammars. Itcommences by giving to the scholar
some of the simplest elements of language, which
he learns quickly and easily to use-physically and
mentaly-as we'll as those OF his own language
When this is done, new elements, that is, new
words and ideas, are added, which are incorPo-
rated in natural way with those already known,
and used with them until an equally perfect know
ledge of them is obtained. New elements are
Progressively added at each lesson, until the whole
language is learned With twenty years expert
ence Manesca qaethodized Language; ne dis-
tributcd all the clements in the manner the student
should learn them, and his system teaches HIM TO
READ, TO WRITE, and TO SPEAK at the same time.
'No erammars and dictionaries are required
with Manesca $ book the whole language is init,
with all necessary rules, ideas, etc
Stree Mansscas death in 1887 his daughter, Mme. L.
MaSEscA DuR.Np has continued, and with perfect ssc
cess her fathers system, having been Instructed sy INN
fnl!y in the use oft.
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