A First Book in English (Classic Reprint): Designed Especially for Foreigners: Designed Especially for Foreigners (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The main purpose of this book is to give foreigners a practical working vocabulary of the simpler English words and idioms which they require for colloquial intercourse in private and in commercial life.

The importance of accomplishing this aim in the briefest possible time has led me to introduce into the work certain features that have proved most helpful in teaching English to the crowded foreign classes in the evening schools of Greater New York. These features do not exist in the First Readers which, hitherto, have been placed in the hands of foreign pupils, for lack of a book especially designed to meet their needs. Although a First Reader is the right thing in its own field of teaching the art of reading to children whose mother-tongue is English, its gently graded lessons fail to satisfy the foreigner who desires to learn English without unnecessary delay.

The English language has peculiarities that those essaying to learn it encounter from the very outset. I have therefore allowed idioms to appear in the earliest lessons, despite the pedagogic rule of leading up to the complex from the simple. Instances of this may be seen in the immediate introduction of the homophone (see, sea), and of the different uses to which the adverb there may be put.

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