Language learning

This collection is part of an initiative to create a language learning resource at LibriVox. The LibriVox Language Learning Collections contain readings from various language learning books, grammars, primers, phrasebooks, dictionaries, readers and even other works which contain information on various languages, recount experiences of language learning and encountering new languages or provide guides for correct pronunciation, writing or discourse in a language. These works could describe English or any other language whatsoever, from Latin to Sumerian, Chinese to Wampanoag, Esperanto to Swahili (etc.). This volume includes ‘Abdu?l-Bah?’s talk “On the Value of an International Language”; the first section of L.L. Zamenhof’s “First Book” (Unua Libro), explaining his great invention?the International Language, i.e. Esperanto; the third Lesson of Barrs’ “Beginning Latin”; Gustave Chouquet’s “Easy Conversations in French” (11 – 14); Lessons 21 – 25 from “Greek Lessons” by W.H. Morris; Introduction from “Hand-Book of Volap?k” by Charles E. Sprague; Leccion Tercera, from “New First Spanish Book”, by James H. Worman; Lessons 11 – 15 from “Esperanto in Twenty Lessons” by Caroline Stearns Griffin; Lessons 26 – 30 from “A Practical Arabic Course” by E. N?matallah & E. Chevalley; two sections from the “Student’s Greek Grammar” by Georg Curtius; the Preface from “A Grammar of the Persian Language” by the great linguist, Sir William Jones (1746 – 1794); the Preface from “Arabic Syntax chiefly selected from the Hidayut-oon-Nuhvi” by Henry Brown Beresford (d. 1869), which is based on the famous Hid?yatu’n-Nahw by Ibn al-H?jib (1174 ? 1249 CE); Chapters 3 – 8 from “Slips of Speech” by John H. Bechtel and, lastly, The Alphabet/Classifications of Sounds from “New Latin Grammar” by Charles E. Bennet.

This collection is part of an initiative to create a language learning resource at LibriVox. The LibriVox Language Learning Collections contain readings from various language learning books, grammars, primers, phrasebooks, dictionaries, readers and even other works which contain information on various languages, recount experiences of language learning and encountering new languages or provide guides for correct pronunciation, writing or discourse in a language. These works could describe English or any other language whatsoever, from Latin to Sumerian, Chinese to Wampanoag, Esperanto to Swahili (etc.). This collection includes Beginning Latin: Lessons 4 to 5, Latin for Beginners 1 to 3, Eleganti? Latin? by Edward Valpy, Chapter 2 – Hercules, from Ritchie’s Fabulae Faciles, Dialogues 1 to 5 from The English and French Interpreter, Lessons 16 to 20 from Esperanto in Twenty Lessons , First Lessons of Chinese (Introduction and Chapter One), Grammar of English Grammars, chapters 1 – 3, Greek Lessons: 26 to 30, The Languages of Britain, from Polychronicon, A Plea for Phonetic Spelling [or, The Necessity of Orthographic Reform], ? 1. to ? 4, Lessons 31 – 35 from A Practical Arabic Course, Zamenhof’s An Attempt towards an International Language: Part I: First, Second and Third Problems, How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition (Preface) and a second version of The Aural System. (Introduction by Nicholas J. Bridgewater)