Spanish Pronunciation Adapted to Copious Oral Exercises (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Spanish Pronunciation Adapted to Copious Oral Exercises The present volume is an outcome of the author's experience that a good pronunciation is the corner-stone of all effective foreign language study, and that its acquisition is the first stage prescribed in this study. It is the prime factor in any proficiency worthy of the name. There can be no genuine progress with lasting results until after the elements of pronunciation have been fixed clearly and unmistakably at the very outset, to the end that subsequent grammar study with its copious demonstration exercises be pursued with undivided attention. Words and inflections leave no clear impression on the learner's mind and fail to become fixed in his memory when disguised in his study experience by boggled or mutilated speech sounds. As long as the learner is hampered by such a handicap the ground he may cover in the grammar is virtually valueless as a measure of actual progress. On the other hand, once he vitalizes his study processes by forming reputable habits of pronunciation he has conquered half the task toward mastery of the language. It follows, then, that the pronunciation of a new language is a subject important enough to deserve some special preoccupation - far too important to be left for the learner to pick up or to stumble into along with the study of the grammar, or to be dismissed in a few perfunctory, carefully guarded directions that only disconcert and mystify him. Few people arc able to do more than one thing at a time and do it well: to expect of the beginner an intelligent grasp of language sounds and forms at the same time is to defeat any practical results in either line and, at best, to provoke only fatal habits of superficiality. 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.