The Greene County Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 185?-1867, 1866-12-19

overpoweryo with his ircomprehen
slb|y rapid expostula,ions Bu, vii
l., not follow these adventures They ar,
common in all Countries and inevitable
To be the master Of all tongues is moi
given to any ore among men, and i. i.
10 disgrace, but it ~ a great morlltica
tion, toa foreigner TO- be travelling in q
land whose language is as dead to him
as that of the man IN the moon.
| began this letter only TO tell you ot
an easy way to the acquisition OF fore,
ign language, way into which with
several others, l have been introduced
by Frcuch gentleman IF great learning
and extensive experience In the art he
has impaired.
IndIreclly,hrough my.trierd Ripley.
of the Ne'c York Tribune, who was here
in Paris this fall, was brought into
pleasant intercourse with Mr. Marcel, n
citizen of Paris. who has devoted many
years OF his lie to philosophical pursuits,
and may truly he said to be master of
the science OF language For Is wears
he was Frepch Consul in Englan !, and
has hccome so thoroughly at home in
the English, that he writes learned
works In that 'angnag" with equal fla,
ency as in lis own. Two volumes uf
his, recen,Iy published in London, on
the Arai,~is OF Language, which haze
been highly spoken Of by the Reviews,
are 30 perfectly mdlomatlc in their On.
gllsh, tha, no reader would imagine that
they were written hy one other than q
native and a scholar. Mr. Marcel is the
author, | may say he inventor of an idea
IN the art and science OF language, That
requires only to be known by the world
at large, to render the acquisition OF
foreign languages comparatively easy
task. In one sense 1t will be no tnsk.
for what is now toilSomG drndgery
will heroine, under this system. itself II
pleasure. a"d would pay for the time
spent in ITS pursuit, ii m language were
acquire J. T1ach,s will cry on against
it, The old school of learners, who
have been taught to ig deep and lay u
broad oun1ation, will deSpise it. But
it will be popular at once, and hun
dred, perhaps thousand. who read this
letter. wi | in six months or year, be
reading and speaking French. without
having really studied it, and to ther
gratitude Hook ~ my reward for offan.
din the prculcrs Of Others.
II ~ does child learn to speak the
Enylisha n thy stnlying t c gram
mar. There Is not one of the stu lies in
school M re philosophical and abstrusp
than grammar, Thousands begin the
study Of a ioveis n language by at,cmp
ling to maseri i y grammar, aud throw j,
up in despair. FIT is the asses bridge,
many who are not asses break down
upon it. Now the new idea of NJ Mar.
Gel is to dispense entirely with the study
OF grammar, Ifthe learner will master
the lShpctions of the verbs, It will br a
great help, hu' tins is not essential lie
must get some simple book, which ave
p inted an ANY are, with the Englsh
one page AMI the French on the
Other. face to 'a;e. and begin to read
silently, looking from one to the other
,rar slaiog the Freoch by the aa Of the
,ra, station bpforvhim The more simple
the book the better. The History of
Little Davy's New Hat is before me thus
moment thus prepared. The Vicar OF
Wakefield l,as~elas, AMI ma"y others
easily procnrahle. When yo, have
read the first book tn ough. read il ag'in;
and If y,u cannot then translate any part
of it without looking on thu opposite
page, read it again Then take up tno
ther, AMI master that TIE process re-
qnires no great mental effort, but is en-
tertaning and therefore agreeable. In
the course OF reading few vol,i,nrs
you become familiar with nearly all the
words m common 40. You have
especially found the plr'lrles and little
parts of speech, 80 p,rplcx'ng to be-
oinner Yon have also caught n'on,s
as # you had been hearing the tongn,
( r months. When you have thus mad,
yourself familiar with tho o9rds 1t i,
time to have a teacher, aud y'u neet
, one only to learn the pronunciation.- -
, Any person who speaks the Frencl
; properly,,lt may be a nurse, II may b.
(, u gov.rneSs, or your friend, II Frencl
merchant who resides near you, vii
read aloud 10 YOU while You look o.
J and listen. AK Of him or her to repea
the more ditlicul, sounds, and repeu
4 them alter The teacher, aud you wi
d soon acquire them They are not =
:. many, nor 40 hard 10 utter as thore y,
learned whom a child Without known
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