First Book in German (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from First Book in German Having used several German-English grammars, one after another, without finding any of them satisfactory, the author finally concluded to compile a book which, given into the hands of his pupils, would enable him to teach according to the method and system he wished to follow. In doing this, he had no ambition for striving after originality, an attempt which will, in writing a grammar or a similar schoolbook, always prove a failure, unless the writer is a genius, he simply endeavored to unite such principles and ideas as he acknowledged as rational and practical, and to embody them in a book suitable for beginners. The most important of these principles are: 1. Practice must precede theory, or in other words, language must be acquired as an art, before it can be successfully studied as a science. This maxim which, as the author hopes, requires no defensive argument in our day, and the desire to avoid wearying the scholar by tedious sentences, induced him to take a story as text, and to develop the rules of grammar from it as gradually as possible. The substance of the text is taken from an old story-book, and by the author appropriated to his purpose. 2. We must proceed from the whole to its parts, i. e. we must start from the sentence, and dissect it into its elements. 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.