Excerpt from Elements of Phonetics: English, French German The growing demand for better instruction in modern languages and the consequent inquiries into the methods adopted in 'other countries have led many English teachers to consider how their pupils can best learn to pronounce French and German. The compilers of Grammars and First Courses have not been slow to take note of this tendency, and hardly a book of this kind has been issued in the last few years which does not supply a chapter on 'pronunciation.' Some, indeed, frankly'refuse to do so, alleging that the teacher alone can supply the re quired help this is no doubt true as far as the learner is concerned, but no aid is given to the teacher. In others we find certain 'rules, ' of which many are quite wrong, and even an 'imitated pronunciation, ' which has only to be read aloud by those familiar with the language to be at once rejected as a gross travesty. 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.