Loom of Language - Softcover

Bodmer, Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0850363500 ISBN 13: 9780850363500

Publisher: The Merlin Press Ltd, 1990

Synopsis

Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples.

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Review

Makes language study more hopeful and exciting than anything I have read before.--Lewis Gannett

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

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Merlin Press Ltd
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0850363500
• ISBN 13: 9780850363500
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 669