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... doubt that we should choose the first ; though we should all gladly be able also to converse in it , and we should many of us be very glad if we could correspond in it and translate from English prose into it in good style . Fortunately ...
... doubt that we should choose the first ; though we should all gladly be able also to converse in it , and we should many of us be very glad if we could correspond in it and translate from English prose into it in good style . Fortunately ...
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... swifter gate to knowledge , and that so soon as we can use , we do use it and rightly use it in preference to , though of course not to the exclusion of , the ear . No doubt , until the child has learnt IN THE NURSERY . 13.
... swifter gate to knowledge , and that so soon as we can use , we do use it and rightly use it in preference to , though of course not to the exclusion of , the ear . No doubt , until the child has learnt IN THE NURSERY . 13.
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... doubt we may . It is open to a ready test by all . Take a child who has acquired good nursery French , ask him to write down a sentence , or if you think that unfair , yourself write down exactly what falls from his lips - you will find ...
... doubt we may . It is open to a ready test by all . Take a child who has acquired good nursery French , ask him to write down a sentence , or if you think that unfair , yourself write down exactly what falls from his lips - you will find ...
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... doubt a very important and a very comforting thought for those whose visits to foreign lands have become less frequent and whose French and German have grown rusty . I would ask you who hear me whether this , or something like this , is ...
... doubt a very important and a very comforting thought for those whose visits to foreign lands have become less frequent and whose French and German have grown rusty . I would ask you who hear me whether this , or something like this , is ...
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Charles Colbeck. in conversational Modern Languages at an early date . any one doubts this let him try to estimate ( 1 ) the number of hours daily which a child living with foreigners is talking or being talked to in a foreign language ...
Charles Colbeck. in conversational Modern Languages at an early date . any one doubts this let him try to estimate ( 1 ) the number of hours daily which a child living with foreigners is talking or being talked to in a foreign language ...
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