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... foreign language that the two cannot profitably be considered together . Nor again , except incidentally , do I intend to put forward any opinions upon the kind of teaching which will be proper for your Professors of Modern Languages ...
... foreign language that the two cannot profitably be considered together . Nor again , except incidentally , do I intend to put forward any opinions upon the kind of teaching which will be proper for your Professors of Modern Languages ...
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... what disadvantage the late Earl Russell found himself for want of an adequate knowledge of it . Some of us know that the proficiency even now of the clerks of the Foreign Office leaves much to be desired OF MODERN LANGUAGES . 5.
... what disadvantage the late Earl Russell found himself for want of an adequate knowledge of it . Some of us know that the proficiency even now of the clerks of the Foreign Office leaves much to be desired OF MODERN LANGUAGES . 5.
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Charles Colbeck. clerks of the Foreign Office leaves much to be desired - but I need not continue . Secondly , we teach Modern Languages because they are , by comparison , so easy that our teaching does not run to waste . 2. Be- We teach ...
Charles Colbeck. clerks of the Foreign Office leaves much to be desired - but I need not continue . Secondly , we teach Modern Languages because they are , by comparison , so easy that our teaching does not run to waste . 2. Be- We teach ...
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... foreign talk , or even of reading , sends us to bed once more to find that even in our dreams our thoughts frame them- selves not in English but in the foreign tongue , and we feel that we resume our progress almost at the point where ...
... foreign talk , or even of reading , sends us to bed once more to find that even in our dreams our thoughts frame them- selves not in English but in the foreign tongue , and we feel that we resume our progress almost at the point where ...
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... foreign language can be acquired at least as easily late as early ; that it is much less important than translation , and less important than composition , and that in learning it at whatever age we waste power if we proceed by ear only ...
... foreign language can be acquired at least as easily late as early ; that it is much less important than translation , and less important than composition , and that in learning it at whatever age we waste power if we proceed by ear only ...
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