Author: Everett Ward Olmsted

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-12

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9781330284711

Excerpt from Gramática Castellana Abreviada: Abridged Spanish Grammar It is the aim of this grammar to offer a practical and thorough course in Spanish, suitable alike for schools and colleges, and to make the presentation of the subject conform to the most advanced methods of teaching a living language. It will be noticed that throughout this work the headings of lessons and of subjects have been printed in Spanish, as well as in English. This has been done in order to acquaint the student with Spanish grammatical phraseology and to facilitate conversation in Spanish, if desired, upon the grammatical matter introduced in the various lessons. The subject of Spanish pronunciation is treated as fully and as definitely as is practicable in a book of this kind. It is to be regretted that as yet so little scientific study has been devoted to Spanish phonology. In the presentation of inflection and syntax it will be observed that the paradigms and rules relating to a given subject are grouped together in a lesson or in contiguous lessons, the object being to give to the student a comprehensive view of each subject treated, and to facilitate later reference to the same. The study of the verb is begun early in the book. Believing that the memorizing of words is the most important feature in the acquisition of a language, the authors have introduced comprehensive vocabularies with every lesson. These vocabularies contain all of the new words in the exercises of each lesson (except the headings and the paradigms, which are likewise to be learned). By memorizing these printed vocabularies the student will be spared the time and labor of looking up and writing down the new words of each exercise for himself, and will find the subsequent reading and writing of the exercises comparatively simple. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.