WORMAN'S SERIES FOR THE MODERN LANGUAGES. L'ÉCHO DE PARIS. THE FRENCH ECHO: OR, Dialogues to teach French Conversation. WITH AN ADEQUATE VOCABULARY. EDITED FOR THE USE OF AMERICAN STUDENTS BY JAMES H. WORMAN, A.M., PROFESSOR OF MODERN LANGUAGES IN THE ADELPHI ACADEMY, BROOKLYN, N. Y. A. S. BARNES & COMPANY, NEW YORK AND CHICAGO First German Book, after the Natural or Pestalozzian Method, for Second German Book, intended to follow the preceding work. An Elementary German Grammar. An easy introduction to the language. 12mo. 300 pages. A Complete German Grammar. 12mo. 591 pages. An Elementary German Reader, intended for beginners in German. 121.0. 145 pages. A Collegiate German Reader, or Introduction to German Literature. with references to the German Grammars of Worman and Camp. bell, and an adequate Dictionary. 12mo. 525 pages. A Manual of German Conversation - the "Berliner Echo." For practice in the language as spoken in Berlin, with Vocabulary of words and idioms. 203 pages. FRENCH. First French Book, after the Natural or Pestalozzian Method, for Second French Book, on the same plan as the German. (In prepara, An Elementary French Grammar, on the same plan as the Ele- A Complete French Grammar, on the same plan as the Complete An Elementary and Collegiate French Reader, on the same plan A Manual of French Conversation- the "Echo de Paris." Plan of the "Berliner Echo." 212 pages. Copyright, 1870, by A. S. Barnes & Co. PREFACE. THIS little work is on the same plan as the "German Echo," and in the main a reprint of the "Echo de Paris," so well and favorably known in England and Germany. Indeed, in both countries the success of the book, in its original form, has been very great. In England, thirty-four editions have already been sold; and in Germany the work is circulated nearly as extensively. The "Echo" is designed to supply the student with an extensive vocabulary of words and expressions in common use among the French people and to aid him in obtaining command of the idioms of the language; in short, to furnish the material for intelligent, correct, and varied expression in the language as spoken by natives of France. No Grammar, not even the so-called "Conversation Grammars," will enable the learner to master the French heard in business, on travel, at a hotel, in the chitchat of society, or in the common conversation of every-day life. The method followed in the "Echo" is also unlike that generally developed in Conversational books. It teaches the learner, not to translate his thoughts, but to think in the language which he is to speak. He is carried, as it were, into the very midst of the scenes of actual life, and is taught 926676 |