Author: SWAN, Howard
Title: Travellers' Colloquial French. A Handbook for English-Speaking Travellers and Students. Idiomatic French Phrases, with the Exact Phonetic Pronunciation Represented on a New System Based Upon a Scientific Analysis of French Sounds with Other General Information Useful to Travellers in France. "Phonetic Series" - No. 1.
Description: London, David Nutt, 1903. Original cloth, illustrated in the contemporary 'art nouveau' style in black to upper board. 11x16cm. Cloth a little rubbed and bubbled, inner joints a little loose. Rather accomplished pencil drawings by early owner to end-papers. Used; Good Howard Swan also translated François Gouin's "The art of teaching and studying languages". Passy, Sweet, Bell and Ellis are all mentioned in the introduction to the present volume. Hardback.

Keywords: Phonetics|Language Reform|Walter Ripman|Daniel Jones|Paul Passy|Henry Sweet


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