Excerpt from Speaking Exercises: For the Illustration of the Rules and Idioms of the French Language Tm; study of grammar is, to most foreigners, an arduous task, and too often becomes fruitless from the want of proper direction, and from a deficiency in the means of applying in a pleasant and useful manner the numerous rules which it embraces. Practice is necessary, and even indispensable, to enable them to become familiar with its mechanism; but what should this practice he, in order to interest the mind and impress the memory? 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.