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
But the motives to the study of this language reach far he yond the circles of literary life. Celerity and cheapness of travel, growing out of recent improvements in navigation, h united 111 producing an easy intercourse between Germany and America. Besides, we have already in our midst an immense and daily augmenting German population. The language of this people is Spoken extensively among us, and has hence come to have a high practical value. It is often set down an indispensable 'qualification even for a common clerkship.
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 nu questionably excellent works; executed, according to the plan which they have adopted, in a manner skilful and judicious. But just here, in plan, 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.
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