Excerpt from A Practical Course With the German Language Practical Course embraces in connection with the Reading Lessons a succinct history of the German nation, noting its origin and relation to other nations of Europe and Asia, the development and prominent features of the German Lan guage, and the position which it occupies among the living languages of Europe. This history, while answering the ordinary purpose of Reading Lessons, serves, likewise, to im press upon the memory both the forms and facts. Of the language as further illustrative of the philological rules pre sented in the earlier part of the Course. Among the further features of the work to which the author would invite attention are the Exercises in English type, bringing variously into review the peculiarities of the preceding Lessons, the treatment and alphabetical list of the Verbs of the Old Conjugation, &c., rite. 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.