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FRENCH AND SPANISH.
BY A. BOLMAR.
A COLLECTION of COLLOQUIAL PHRASES on every
Topic necessary to maintain Conversation, arranged under different
heads, with numerous remarks on the peculiar pronunciation
and use of various words—the whole so disposed as considerably
to facilitate the acquisition of a correct pronunciation of the
French. By A. Bolmar. One vol. 18mo.
A SELECTION of ONE HUNDRED PERRIN'S FABLES,
accompanied by a Key, containing the text, a literal and free
translation, arranged in such a manner as to point out the difference
between the French and the English idiom, also a figured
pronunciation of the French, according to the best French works
extant on the subject; the whole preceded by a short treatise on
the sounds of the French language, compared with those of the
English.
Les AVENTURES de TELEMAQUE par FENELON, accompanied
by a Key to the first eight books; containing like the
Fables—the Text—a Literal—and Free Translation; intended as
a Sequel to the Fables.
The expression `figured pronunciation,' is above employed to express that the
words in the Key to the French Fables are spelt and divided as they are pronounced.
It is what Walker has done in his Critical Pronouncing Dictionary; for instance,
he indicates the pronunciation of the word enough, by dividing and spelling it thus,
e-nuf. In the same manner I indicate the pronunciation of the word comptaient
thus, kon-tè. As the understanding of the figured pronunciation of Walker requires
the student to be acquainted with the primitive sounds of the English vowels,
he must likewise, before he can understand the figured pronunciation of the French,
make himself acquainted with the 20 primitive sounds of the French vowels. This
any intelligent person can get from a native, or from anybody who reads French
well, in a few hours.
A COMPLETE TREATISE on the GENDERS of FRENCH
NOUNS; in a small pamphlet of fourteen pages.
This little work, which is the most complete of the kind, is the
fruit of great labor, and will prove of immense service to every
learner.
ALL THE FRENCH VERBS, both REGULAR and IRREGULAR,
in a small volume.
The verbs être to be, avoir to have, parler to speak, finir to finish, recevoir
to receive, vendre to sell, se lever to rise, se bien porter to be well, s'en aller
to go away, are here all conjugated through—cffirmatively—negatively—
interrogatively—and negatively and interrogatively—an arrangement which
will greatly facilitate the scholar in his learning the French verbs, and
which will save the master the trouble of explaining over and over again
what may be much more easily learned from books, thus leaving him more
time to give his pupil, during the lesson, that instruction which cannot be
found in books, but which must be learned from a master.
NEUMAN'S SPANISH and ENGLISH DICTIONARY.
New Edition, in one vol. 16mo.
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