A NEW METHOD OF LEARNING

THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE

WORKS FOR THE STUDY OF THE

PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE.

s. d.

Lafayette, C. de, English-Portuguese and Portuguese-
English Pocket Dictionary (New Edition), containing every
word in General Use, and a Comprehensive Selection of
Scientific and Technical Terms.
1100 pages. 16mo. Cloth 6 o

Mascarenhas, A New, Concise, and Complete English and
Portuguese Grammar and Commercial Handbook.
Revised Edition specially adapted to the Commercial Require-
ments of the Day. With Exercises and Questions by JOHN C.
MASCARENHAS, F.C.S., Professor at the City of London
College, Berlitz School of Languages, etc. etc. 216 pages.
Crown 8vo. Cloth

net 36

The Author has endeavoured to set forth as clearly and concisely as possible the means of acquiring a thorough commercial and grammatical knowledge of the Portuguese language, so as to enable the Student to speak, correspond and write correctly. He has been guided in his judgment by the knowledge derived from his father's experience of over thirtyfive years in teaching the language, as well as by his own extending over the last fifteen years, both in the capacity of Teacher as well as that of Examiner. For the sake of ready reference the work is divided into six parts, and the Grammatical portion is paragraphed. A fair number of Exercises have been included as being essential in the practice of the Parts of Speech, and a useful Dictionary of Commercial Terms and Abbreviations has been added.

Portuguese Self-Taught. Crown 8vo. Paper cover, 2s.; Cloth
Washing Book (English-Portuguese) for both Sexes, with
Counterfoils in English. In stiff Paper wrapper

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A NEW

PRACTICAL AND EASY METHOD

OF LEARNING THE

PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE

INCLUDING RULES FOR PRONUNCIATION

READING LESSONS, EXERCISES, VOCABULARY OF
USEFUL WORDS, DIALOGUES, LETTERS
IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS, ETC.

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PREFACE

THE study of foreign languages having become general, the methods of teaching them have altered and improved, so as to unite the changes which philology has suggested with those which the comparison of languages has taught.

The present Series of Cheap and Popular Grammars for the Study of European Languages has been published with this aim in view. These Grammars combine Theory with Practice, and their method and arrangement have been based upon the recommendations of eminent authorities as to the clearest and most rational method of teaching languages.

Seidenstücker was the first who introduced this new method for the Latin, Greek, and French languages, and to him belongs the merit of having devised a rational system of tuition.

There was, however, one essential point omitted even in these books, namely that the grammatical form should precede the Exercises, so that the learner should at once be made acquainted with the grammatical structure of the foreign language, without which he could never attain a thorough knowledge of it. This defect has

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