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 0060133236,  978-0060133238

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HOW TO LEARN LANGUAGES AND WHAT LANGUAGES TO LEARN

MARIO

PEI

$5.95

How

Learn

to

LANGUAGES and What

LANGUAGES to

Learn

by Mario Pei

Here

a

is

book that deals with

lan-

guage-learning methods rather than with

language-teaching methods. Dr. Pei cusses the advantages

method

of each

and

He

describes the

are

that

of learning a language

the usefulness of learning

stresses

aids.

dis-

and disadvantages

being

many

taught

languages

today



— from

French to Arabic and Urdu and explains what languages may be learned simultaneously, and the special ties

of each.

He

also illustrates

difficul-

how

to

apply the rules and vocabulary of one language in studying others.

Here

are but a few of the

tions to

which

supply

practical,

this

many

ques-

book undertakes straightforward

to

an-

swers:

Barring special situations, what lan-

guages

is it

profitable to concentrate on?

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