Excerpt from The French Language, With or Without a Teacher, Vol. 1 of 3: The Exact Pronunciation in English Sounds Under Every Word; French Verbs Conquered; All Verbs, Regular and Irregular, at a Glance, and the Difficulties of Tenses Simply Solved The author is not for the first time in the field of French teaching before the American public. His previ ous efforts having been crowned with marked favor and success, for which he is most thankful, and having contracted towards the studying public a debt of grati tude, he feels the obligation of doing something more and better. Fully confident of having attained that aim, and well aware of the lacuna existing in the publications on the subject, he offers now a work containing the best of his ability and experience, intended as a necessary remedy for a long felt want, and especially adapted to the needs of Americans studying the French language. 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.