Method for Teaching Modern Languages I-II. [antikvár]

PrefaceFundamental Principles of the Berlitz Method1. Direct association of Perception and Thought with the Foreign Speech and Sound.2. Constant and exclusive use of the Foreign Language.Means of Attaining this EndI, Teaching of the Concrete by Object Lessons.II. Teaching of the Abstract by the Association of Ideas.III. Teaching of Grammar by Examples and Ocular Demonstration.The Berlitz Method is the systematized application of the psychological process which enables a child to learn its mother tongue; it is adapted, however, to the different stages of mental maturity reached by a youth or an adult.In the Berlitz Method, translation as a means of acquiring a foreign language is entirely abandoned. From the first lesson, the student hears only the language he is studying. The reasons for this feature of the method are as follows:1.In all translation-methods, most of the time is taken up by explanations in the student's mother tongue, while but few words are spoken in the language to be learned. It is evident that such a procedure is contrary to common sense.2.He who is studying a foreign language by means of translation, neither gets hold of its spirit nor becomes