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  • The Sounds of English Words: Without Change of Spelling, Applied in a Series of Progressive Lessons; A Book for Children, Teachers, and Foreigners

    Thomas Jarrett

    Hardcover (Forgotten Books, March 9, 2018)
    Excerpt from The Sounds of English Words: Without Change of Spelling, Applied in a Series of Progressive Lessons; A Book for Children, Teachers, and ForeignersThe following pages are designed to apply the Writer's Method of marking the sounds of English words without changing the spelling. The system was devised by him more than eight years ago; and has been successfully used in a Village School for about half that time. The Writer believes that both Teachers and Learners will find their task much lessened by means of this method. The Whole system being contained in the Table of Similar Sounds, a person fully acquainted with this Table can read at sight any word marked according to this method. The Gospels and Acts have been printed so marked and this little book is meant as an Intro duction. The Teacher is requested to cause the Learner to go over each lesson till it has been thoroughly mastered. After the Learner has thus been accustomed to connect the Spelling of English words With the proper sound of each word, the reading of books printed in the ordinary way becomes an easy task.For the use of Foreigners who may wish to learn English, a Table has been printed, in which the English sounds are represented' by words of the chief languages of Europe and Asia, as far as these sounds are contained in each language.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.
  • The Sounds of English Words: Without Change of Spelling, Applied in a Series of Progressive Lessons; A Book for Children, Teachers, and Foreigners

    Thomas Jarrett

    Paperback (Forgotten Books, June 10, 2017)
    Excerpt from The Sounds of English Words: Without Change of Spelling, Applied in a Series of Progressive Lessons; A Book for Children, Teachers, and ForeignersThe following pages are designed to apply the Writer's Method of marking the sounds of English words without changing the spelling. The system was devised by him more than eight years ago; and has been successfully used in a Village School for about half that time. The Writer believes that both Teachers and Learners will find their task much lessened by means of this method. The Whole system being contained in the Table of Similar Sounds, a person fully acquainted with this Table can read at sight any word marked according to this method. The Gospels and Acts have been printed so marked and this little book is meant as an Intro duction. The Teacher is requested to cause the Learner to go over each lesson till it has been thoroughly mastered. After the Learner has thus been accustomed to connect the Spelling of English words With the proper sound of each word, the reading of books printed in the ordinary way becomes an easy task.For the use of Foreigners who may wish to learn English, a Table has been printed, in which the English sounds are represented' by words of the chief languages of Europe and Asia, as far as these sounds are contained in each language.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.