An Urdu Manual Of The Phonetic, Inductive Or Direct Method Based On The Gospel Of John

This Manual is the product, as it ought to be, of classroom work, but it has not been tested with successive classes. Under the circumstances, it is the best that could be done. This the results of fifty odd years of language study, but it is particularly the outgrowth of experience in learning, and helping others to learn, Urdu and Panjabi. It owes most to a severe lesson from Providence that ears and not eyes were given us to learn languages, as well as to further sickleave leisure to prosecute these studies. In this book, the use of the ?fivesyllable per second? standard, and the homonymic sentences for training in pronunciation, is, so far as is known, unique. So also is the methodical development, in progressive order of the constructions, by using this Gospel. It abounds in common words, incidents, and discourse, and has almost all the ordinary constructions of the Urdu. Although the Gospel has been made the basis of the work, yet the aim has not been to develop a technical vocabulary, but rather to give drill in those ordinary constructions which must be the foundation of all future successful work.