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A New Method of Learning to Read, Write and Speak the Spanish Language, by M. Velasquez and T. Simonne - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ...(de las) things that were there, they could save nothing.--Who has told you that?--Our neighbor himself has told it me. 205. Why are you without a light 1--The wind blew it out when you came in.--What is the price of this cloth?--I sell it at three dollars and a half the ell, (la vara.)--I think it very dear. Has the price of cloth not fallen?--It has not fallen: the price of all goods has fallen, except that of cloth, (menos el del paño.)--I will give you three dollars for it.--I cannot let you have (dar) it for (por) that price, for it costs me more.--Will you have the goodness to show me some pieces (la pieza) of English cloth?--With much pleasure.--Does this cloth suit you?--It does not suit me.--Why does it not suit you 1--Because it is too dear; if you will lower the price, (rebajar alguna cosa,) I shall buy twenty yards of it.--Not having asked too much, I cannot take off anything.--You learn Spanish: does your master let you translate 1--He lets me read, write, and translate.--Is it useful to translate in learning a foreign language 1--It is useful to translate when you (sabe) nearly know the language you are learning; but while (cuando) you do not yet know anything it is entirely (del todo) useless.--What does your Spanish master make you do?--He makes me read a lesson; afterwards he makes me translate English exercises into Spanish on the lesson which he has made me read; and from the beginning to the end of the lesson he speaks Spanish to me, and I have to answer him in the very language (la misma lengua) which he is teaching me.--Have you already learned much in that manner?--You see that I have already learned something, for I have hardly been learning it three months, and I already understand you when you speak to me,...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230156739
- ISBN 13 9781230156736
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages164
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