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Yourself ArabicTeach Yourself ChineseTeach Yourself DutchTeach Yourself English GrammarTeach Yourself FrenchTeach Yourself Everyday FrenchTeach Yourself French Phrase BookTeach Yourself More GermanTeach Yourself German Phrase BookTeach Yourself German GrammarTeach Yourself GreekTeach Yourself Good EnglishTeach Yourself HindustaniTeach Yourself HebrewTeach Yourself Italian  \nTeach Yourself Italian Phrase BookTeach Yourself LatinTeach Yourself MalayTeach Yourself NorwegianTeach Yourself PolishTeach Yourself PortugueseTeach Yourself Russian  \nTeach Yourself Russian Phrase BookTeach Yourself Spanish  \nTeach Yourself Spanish Phrase BookTeach Yourself SwahiliTeach Yourself SwedishTeach Yourself Turkish  \n比肥  \n# TEACH YOURSELFTEACH YOURSELFGERMANGERMAN\n\nPe坦~e  \nFirst printed in this form I938New Impression I955  \nALL RIGHTS.RESERVED  \nPrinted in Great Britain for the English Universities Press,Limitedby Richard Clay and Company,Ltd.,Bungay,Suffolk  \n# PREFACE\n\nWE have travelled a long way on the road since theEnglishman,tall and skinny,with sandy hair and pro-truding teeth;was made the butt of ridicule on theContinental stage,and his attempts to speak a foreigntongue were found either irritating or excruciatinglyfunny.  \nWe have progressed much,too,in our approach tothe study of foreign languages.We are not so contentto signal and gesticulate for our food in a foreign restaur-ant,and our eyes no longer flash with indignation atthese“damned foreigners\"who cannot speak the King'sEnglish.It used to be quite common,too,for a well-educated man to turn out a creditable essay in French orGerman on the fossil iguanodon,yet be distressinglyinarticulate when called upon to order a second-classrailway ticket or a dinner.Amusing mistakes,of course,will always be made.There is the Scot,for instance,'who translated:\"J'aime la langue francaise\"by:\"I love the tall French girl,\"or the German who said ingreat indignation to the waiter in a London restaurant:\"I am here since ten minutes-when do I become asausage!\"He had forgotten that bekommen in Englishis to get,while the English become is in German werden.  \nMost of the difficulties of forty years ago were due toan undue importance given to grammar and Classicalsubject-matter:the teaching did not help the practicalman who wanted to travel.It is claimed for this bookthat the interests of such people are studied throughout.The classified vocabularies should prove very helpful,and it is hoped that the student will find that the bug-bear of German declensions loses some of its terrors aspresented here.  \nPREFACE  \nAnyone who follows this course conscientiouslyshould be able to read,write and speak the Germanlanguage with some measure of success.His accuracyand his fluency will depend not only on his native abilitybut also on his determination to keep at it regularly:a short time every day over a long period is much better  \nINTRODUCTION  \nTo know a language properly implies the power of usingit freely for three different purposes:reading,writingand speaking.  \nThose who learn a foreign language may desire tolearn it for all three purposes,or for one or two of themonly.This work has been designed to enable the studentto develop his powers as quickly and as easily as possiblein all three.A language is a vast field,which can neverbe fully explored,and learning a language means hardwork,careful thought and constant practice.If thestudent thinks he is going to speak or write or readGerman in a few months by means of a lesson or twodone now and then,he had better give up the ideacompletely,for he is wasting his time.But this work,if followed conscientiously,will enable the average studentnot only to read German,but also to write and speak itin a fairly simple way.  \nThe student,without exceptional facilities must getinto the habit of reading aloud,asking himself questi","cbCait3ZkEAsMvdD","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCait3ZkEAsMvdD","pdf",14734606,196,"English","# Preface\n# 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