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My sytem of acquiring a living language is fouuded on the principle, Ihat each question coutains nearly the ans wer which one ought or which one wishes to rnake to it. The slight dilFerence between the question and the ansvver is always explained before the question : so that the learner does not find it in the least difficult, either to answer it, or to make similar questions for hiraself. Again, the question being the same as the sn- swer, as soon as the master pronounces it, it strikes the pupil’s ear, and is therefore easily reproduced by bis speaking organs. This principle is so evident, that it is impossible to open the book without being struck by it.

Neither the professor nor his pupiis lose an instant of their time. When the professor reads the lesson. the pupil answers; when he examines the lesson written by the pupil, he speaks again and the pupil answers.; also when he examines the exercise which the pupil has translated, he speaks and the pupil answers; thus both are, as it were, continually kept in exercise.