A first German reading book containing Das Täubchen, with an intr. grammar and a vocabulary by Falck Lebahn |
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Page 114 - Language is generally thought to be a very difficult one to learn My intention in the present work is to render the attainment of the German Language easy to the English student, by simplifying the Rules of Grammar, by presenting to him the similarities of the two languages, and by showing him that he can learn a great deal of German with very little trouble,- -not, however, to lay a learn-without-labour system before him.
Page 129 - Volume," of which we had occasion some time since to speak in terms of high commendation. The plan adopted is simple and plain, and one which cannot fail to be most serviceable to every person desirous of reading German accurately. No one need despair of gaining every information respecting the idiom and construction of the language which is wanted, if he will only give himself diligently to the study of these books. — Weekly Messenger. Like Mr. Falck Lebahn's former work the present manual is...
Page 122 - German," which, containing as it does an interlinear translation of La Motte Fouqué's tale "Undine," with the most complete and copious explanatory notes, will be found invaluable — indeed, absolutely necessary to all students of German, who wish with little labour, and great certainty, to attain a knowledge of this magnificent language. The plan of the book is original, its execution is admirable. With it and its companion volume, any one may, with ordinary diligence, and in a comparatively brief...
Page 125 - In English, orthography is no guide to pronunciation, but in German no letter or combination of letters is endowed with the changeful nature of the chameleon, as vowels in English are. So the learner is likely, with but slight assistance, to find all he wants for his task in this single volume. Of course there are instructions given, and these are brief and comprehensible.
Page 109 - The declension of nouns has been much simplified, and the rules for construction are very clearly laid down. For those who would attain a practical use of the language, with a moderate expenditure of time and labour, we do not know a better work than "German in One Volume...
Page 132 - We have had many elementary works upon German placed in our hands, but we venture to say that in none of them is its acquisition rendered so facile, or the difficulties and obscurities that present themselves upon the threshold so simply and intelligibly chased away.
Page 127 - To many this will be cheering and valuable information. — Naval and Military Gazette. Mr. Lebahn's manuals for German students are highly serviceable. We consider him to have done about as much as was humanly feasible. He has made the rudiments of the language he teaches a much more readable affair than we had ever seen them made.
Page 113 - Journal. We are decidedly of opinion that Mr. Lebahn's Grammar materially facilitates the acquirement of the language. The maxims with which he sets out are two, and both practical rather than theoretical. " Learn the everyday language and the rest will follow of itself.
Page 123 - With it and its companion volume, any one may, with ordinary diligence, and in a comparatively brief time, acquire a competent acquaintance with German. There are few classes of books which are more numerously supplied, and there are few branches of literature in which the competition is greater, than books of instruction in languages, and there are few things more difficult to obtain than one that is really good. We have seen many German grammars, and many works of assistance to the student; but...