The LibriVox Language Learning Collection, Volume 001

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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, etc.

This Volume includes a treatise by Sir Arthur Cotton, author of an "Arabic Primer". His daughter, Lady Hope, on page 523 of her biography of her father, writes that he "had very strong heories on the subject of learning “Living Languages,” his opinion being that, as every child

ho comes into the world learns its mother tongue orally, and at first without grammar... so the learning of all modern languages would be very much facilitated by a similar process." Also

©) |Conversation-Grammar", a talk by ‘Abdu’]- Baha on the need for a universal auxiliary language, = Samuel J ohnson' s"A Grammar of the English Tongue", several sections from Heny Sweet's

® on language by Varro, a story in Latin from "Fabulae Faciles", "Greek Lessons: 1-10", the Phonology Section from a "Primer of Persian" and Lessons 1 - 19 from "A Practical Arabic

Cover illustration is a painting of the Tower of Babel, where the confusion of tongues occurred. „j It was painted by Lucas van Valckenborch in 1594 and is, therefore, in the public domain. x Cover design by Nicholas J. Bridgewater. This design is in the public domain and may be

© reproduced, distributed, or modified without permission. Read by LibriVox volunteers. This > recording is in the public domain and may be reproduced, distributed, or modified without © permission. LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the Mj audio files back onto the net. For more information or to volunteer, visit www.librivox.org.

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