Prendergast Th. - The Mastery Series. German / Немецкий из серии Владычество [1868, DjVu, ENG]

The Mastery Series. German

Год выпуска: 1868
Автор: Prendergast Th.
Категория: учебное пособие
Издатель: D. Appleton & Co.
Язык курса: Английский
ISBN: нет
Серия: The Mastery Series
Формат: DjVu
Качество: Отсканированные страницы + слой распознанного текста
Кол-во страниц: 121
Описание: Одна из книг серии изобретателя метода изучения языков Mastery (Владычество), ныне более известное под торговой маркой Glossika

The Mastery Sf stem is based upon the principles of the natural process pursued by children in learning foreign languages, when they associate with foreigners, after
they have learned to speak their own language. They are impelled by instinct to imitate and repeat the chance sentences which they hear spoken around them ; and, afterwards, to interchange and transpose the words so as to form new combinations. In the process of nature there is no teaching. But children learn to speak foreign tongues idiomatically without instruction of any kind — without even the aid of an interpreter.

In the Manuals this process is systematized.

As to the Language. — Long sentences are selected upon a new principle, and shorter sentences, or Variations, are evolved from them by rearranging those words and excluding all others. These Variations are all complete idiomatic sentences. The primary sentences are divided into sections, each of which, with some of its Variations, forms a short lesson.

The Sentences comprise those specialities of the mechanism of the language which it is most important that the beginner should Master before he attempts to converse.

The Variations are so devised that by mastering 100 words, the beginner obtains the free and habitual command of 100 complete sentences, with many more latent *
Variations in reserve.Доп. информация: Thomas Prendergast (1806 – November 14, 1886) was an East India Company civil servant and writer on language learning, inventor of the ‘mastery’ system of learning languages.

Prendergast was the son of Sir Jeffery Prendergast, born at Clonmel in 1769, who was in the service of the East India Company, becoming colonel of the 39th native infantry in 1825. Sir Jeffery served in the Mysore War, was knighted in 1838, promoted to the rank of general in 1854, and died in 1856, having married in 1804 Elizabeth, daughter of Hew Dalrymple of Nunraw.

Thomas was nominated a writer in the British East India Company's service on 23 June 1826, and became assistant to the collector of Tanjore, Madras presidency, in 1828. He was acting head assistant to the collector of Nellore on 16 Jan. 1829, and head assistant on 9 Feb. 1830. In 1831 he became acting sub-collector and joint magistrate of Nellore, in 1833 acting assistant judge at Guntoor, and on 8 Aug. 1834 assistant judge of Tinnevelly, where he remained until 1838. He was afterwards for many years collector and magistrate at Rajahmundry until his retirement on the annuity fund in 1859. On his return to England he settled at Cheltenham, and soon became totally blind. Despite this misfortune, he devoted himself to literary work, and invented what he called the mastery system of learning languages, based on the process pursued by children in learning to speak. By frequently repeating conversational sentences Prendergast had himself acquired the Madras vernacular, Tamil, and Telegu. His system was to some extent a development of the Ollendorffian, but Prendergast elaborated its details on original lines. His success was considerable, and the various manuals in which he practically expounded his views went through numerous editions.

WorksThe Mastery of Languages, or the Art of speaking Foreign Tongues idiomatically (1864) *Handbook to the Mastery Series (1868)

The Mastery Series: German (1868)
The Mastery Series: Spanish (1869)
The Mastery Series: Hebrew (1871)
[*]The Mastery Series: Latin (1872)