The Loom of Language An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages [Paperback]

It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languagesTeutonic, Romance, Greekhelpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a languages as it is actually used in everyday life.Rewarding and delightful . . . for everyone who has the slightest curiosity or ambition in self expression, this is a book that contains months or years of pleasurable profit.Makes language study more hopeful and exciting than anything I have read before.Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples.