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at the original and then try to imitate it, but after writing it to 

 look again at the original to sec in what respect the copy has fail- 

 ed. Of course it will only be necessary to do this witli the new 

 sounds, which will generally be only very few. 



The student next takes the first list of 100 words, which arc all 

 written in the shortest form, that is, the radical form of the verb, 

 8tC, as we should write in English, good, go, little, come, Sfc. The 

 teacher should then pronounce the first word deliberately and dis- 

 tinctly, and the student should repeat it, followed by the English 

 meaning of it, when it should again be repeated by the teacher, 

 and this suppose five times at first. 



In this way the whole hundred words would be gone over many 

 hundred times before the student ventures to attempt pronouncing 

 them by himself. The teacher and student should sit at some dis- 

 tance apart, so that it may be necessary to speak pretty loud. In 

 these first exercises the student should have the printed words 

 before him, that he may have the assistance of sight in addition to 

 that of hearing in impressing them on his memory. It will of 

 course be at first tiresome to continue this exercise long, neverthe- 

 less the longer the better, and if a person could arrange to do it 

 for one or two hours, at three or four different times in the day it 

 would probably be best — but he should not attempt to learn them 

 by heart because his pronunciation will not be sufficiently confirm- 

 ed. 



When he has become tolerably familiar with the words of the 

 first set of sentences, both as to pronunciation and meaning, by 

 thus repeating them with his teacher several times and with his 

 book before him, he should put down his book and go over them 

 again in the same way several times, without seeing the words, so 

 as to be wholly dependent upon the ear. F^om the first, the ear 

 must be exercised as far as possible without any aid from the eye. 

 It must be kept continually in mind that the sight is to be used as 

 little as possible for the reasons before given. The sentence should 

 not be read together the first time of going over because the stu- 

 dent is not yet able to receive any distinct impression from more 

 than one word at a time. The student should not yet trouble him- 



