Excerpt from A New Method of Learning the German Language: Embracing Both the Analytic and Synthetic Modes of Instruction; Being a Plain and Practical Way of Acquiring the Art of Reading, Speaking, and Composing German Such being the character and importance of the German lan guage, various attempts have been made, as was natural, to give greater facility in learning it. Some of these are nuques tionably excellent works; executed, according to the plan which they have adopted, in a manner skillful and judicious. But just here, in pkw, as it seems to the present writer, all of them are more or less lacking; and out of this conviction has arisen the present volume. 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.