Frederick Bodmer

The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages

Sprache: Englisch.

kartoniert , 720 Seiten

ISBN 039330034X

EAN 9780393300345

Veröffentlicht Oktober 1985

Verlag/Hersteller Blue Guides Limited of London

€ 24,00 inkl. MwSt.

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Beschreibung

Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages -- Teutonic, Romance, Greek -- helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a language as it is actually used in everyday life.

Portrait

Frederick Bodmer is a distinguished Swiss philologist.

Pressestimmen

Rewarding and delightful . . . for everyone who has the slightest curiosity or ambition in self expression, this is a book that contains months or years of pleasurable profit. --Christopher Morley