Improve your english [antikvár]

EXPLANATION It has been shown by various experiments in the psychology of learning that one of the most eeonomical ways of learning to speak a language is by many short, well-spaced practices- e.g. ten minutes at a time. It has been found, alsó, that the best method of learning is by " attempted recall" (by trying to remember). The difflculty in putting these faets into praetice has been that there have not been, up to the present, lesson books which make such practice in odd-moments recall possible. These lessons are the outcome of an attempt to evolve a lesson-form which will make such learning possible. The work has involved many falsé starts, but the present form is what finally crystallized out. All these lessons (except a few late additions to cover special points) have been taught in the class and later emended. Part I consists of simple situations to practise the method. Part II gives examples of situations which are typical of a certain point of grammar. Part III gives useful groups of idioms all on one subject. Part IV deals with certain very necessary points which are intermediate between the grammar and the book of etiquette (and so tend to be omitted from both). Part V deals with the foreigner's difficulty in getting just the right degree of emphasis or emotion. Part VI shows instances of the application of the system to word-study. I am grateful to the French, Polish, Portuguese and Indián learners who co-operated in the work. NOTE TO THE TEACHER Each lesson is (1) Introduced in the class ; (2) Learned in odd moments ; (3) Reproduced in the next class. The lesson consists of : A.A Dialogue. B.Questions on the dialogue. Ck