Word: spoken
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...costumes for the great procession Thursday evening will be ready at my room on Wednesday from 2 to 5. I want especially those to come who have not yet spoken to me about them...
...costumes for the great procession Thursday evening will be ready at my room on Wednesday from 2 to 5. I want especially those to come who have not yet spoken to me about them...
...certain table at Memorial nothing but German is spoken at meals...
...ancient or modern, by "digging out" a bad translation with a small dictionary and a poor "trot," or by filling his mind full of grammar which he neither cares about nor remembers. It has been acknowledged that the best way to learn any language is to hear it spoken and we know for a certainty that children (who learn most rapidly, especially if they are young) do not reason at all but pick it up by instinct as it were or by learning its rythm or swing. This is the new system which has been lately introduced...
...brains of educators for a number of years past,-how to teach modern languages in classes so that they may become real and live to the students. The scheme is to educate the ear as well as the eye by assiduous practice, so that the languages can be spoken as well as read, and it is almost useless for us to add that this method is the only thoroughly satisfactory one. English, for the time being, is left behind entirely, and all conversation is carried on maforeign tongue. Such a school, of course, could only result in giving the student...