no reason why the best modes of learning foreign should not be used in study-nese. The most successful teachers hi been those who have mixed the vocabulary and the rules of grammar together, imparting to the learner's mind @ little of both to-day anda little more vf both to-morrow.
Grammar is a forbidding study and should be administered in small doses, The best way to do this exemplified by works made on Ollendorff's pri He taught modern languages by giving the pupil a few now words to learn ench day and a few phrases made of these words together with those already committed to memory by the class, This is also the method used in England in teaching prose comin Latin and Greek, The pri jane for the acquisition of oon new lnngange The Po rules of the language. In arranging the lessons the author must select and group the most common words accord. ing to trades, occupations, dom matters and all those changes of scone which belong to the experience of a ut_in a foreign country {i in the learner's mind beownse he will recollect readily the names of objects which he sees before him. he bookmaker afterwards enlarges his scope to embar the phraseology employed in the gov ernment of the country, and its history and literature. The object is, while ug the memory, to train the mind of the pupil in the use of the new mould to which he adopts his phrases as he makes them, and at the supply w try and its institution Avother manual for the nequi the Peking dialect lias just been added to fal books on Chinese. The author, M. Mouillesoaux de Bernidres, has done well to adopt the principle of ive lessons, and at the head of ious into which the fower than 2,600 Chinese words, work ie intended to be an introduction to spoken and written Chinese, and it formation on very many subjects with which the foreign resident needs to be acquainted. It is constructed on the lau of allowing a Chinese writer, a of Peking, to speak for himself, The Chinese assistant makes the conversations. These have been translated by the author, M. de into Evglich and French. The conversations are particularly f the bannermen of Peking, on the marriage ceremonies, faneral officials, and education. The dinleot taught is the Pekingese, as might be expected from the liberty he pliratroduction to the language compiled in this way, with a carefully made translation in French and English, renders it easy to make good acquiring the Inu-There may be no royal road to attain the power of the tongue round the Chinese vocables, but this road may be rendered ensy and agreeable; and thie book de-that praise of helping to make its, Let not the learver ti however that if he learns quickly it is all the merit of the author, whether author of this work be Chinese or Enropean. The goodness of an introduction to Chin not sufficient to account for the facility with which a foreigner may acquire this tongue.
There is much that i pique and pleasing in i I Has the charm of It has none of the heaviness of languages whose words consist of long terminations added to short role, Thelearner finde himself at once in the heart of th is mach to amuse in the metaphors, The honorific phraseology, the quiet unlaboured wit and oddity are often diverting. There 0 grent fore!
tellect required in learning thie language, It is fall of the truth of nature, and it is more interesting as a study to those who like languages than it would be if it had grown out of some other tongue. Let every one try the trath of these statements, For example, take Japan easy to learn cortuinly, flavour of the Chinese is to our taste too long a word for I, and the Chinese " we" a belter beea For thi teequely while the Japanese mono" is simply a soft-sounding word and nothing more. Japanese, while easy to learn, 0 tov much of gram. motion! suffixes to compare with Chinese where word means eumething,
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