Author: Heinrich Apel

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-14

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780332779218

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Excerpt from Prose Specimens for Translation Into German: With Copious Vocabularies and Explanations Tris little volume, designed to serve as a text-book for translation into German, is, at the same time, intended to complete the study of the language. It contains select specimens of prose in various styles, and may be used by the adult student as soon as he has made himself acquainted with the essentials of German grammar and has gone through an appropriate course of exercises on the forms of speech. The next step naturally is to trans late English prose into German, either at sight, i. E. Viva-coca, or by writing, or by a combination of both. To do so however from English books, or selections from them is beyond the power of the great majority of learners, unless an efficient master is always at hand to aid them. The cause of the difficulty lies in the nature of the two languages which differ widely in the nu merous peculiarities of their grammatical forms and in the variety of significations of the words themselves. To overcome this difficulty in some measure, as also to provide the student with the materials for the acquisition of pure, classical German, the specimens have been selected from the works of eminent German authors and translated into English in a form approaching the Get man as nearly as the former language woma admin Dison which account it is to be hoped that occasional as perities of' construction etc. In the English text will be pardoned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Prose Specimens for Translation Into German written by Heinrich Apel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Prose Specimens for Translation Into German: With Copious Vocabularies and Explanations Tris little volume, designed to serve as a text-book for translation into German, is, at the same time, intended to complete the study of the language. It contains select specimens of prose in various styles, and may be used by the adult student as soon as he has made himself acquainted with the essentials of German grammar and has gone through an appropriate course of exercises on the forms of speech. The next step naturally is to trans late English prose into German, either at sight, i. E. Viva-coca, or by writing, or by a combination of both. To do so however from English books, or selections from them is beyond the power of the great majority of learners, unless an efficient master is always at hand to aid them. The cause of the difficulty lies in the nature of the two languages which differ widely in the nu merous peculiarities of their grammatical forms and in the variety of significations of the words themselves. To overcome this difficulty in some measure, as also to provide the student with the materials for the acquisition of pure, classical German, the specimens have been selected from the works of eminent German authors and translated into English in a form approaching the Get man as nearly as the former language woma admin Dison which account it is to be hoped that occasional as perities of' construction etc. In the English text will be pardoned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.