Excerpt from An Elementary Practical Book For Learning The Speak The French Language, Expressly Adapted To The Capacity Of Children Next to this first part of the work, follows a second, containing a table of the French Sounds and Articulations, With a list of corresponding syllables and words, and a series of appropriate lessons in reading. This second part having been comp11ed with great attention to the best usa ges of pronunciation, it will be found of certain utility to the teacher, and is especially calculated to give a correct understanding of the French language, and, with the first part, constituting the whole of the present volume, is tended_ for the use of the student. It was my intention to have added third part, contain ing rules of Orthography and of Grammar, with numerous examples of their application, and I may with truth say, that in this portion of the work, I had thrown considera ble light into the fundamental causes of the various ortho graphical and grammatical accidents of languages 1n gene ral, and of the French in particular. But want of means has prevented me from accomplishing this desirable ob lect. 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.