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Excerpt from The Principal Roots of the French Language: Simplified by a Display of Their Incorporation Into the English Tongue; With Notes The extraordinary success which has attended Mr. Hall's System as applied to the' Latin language, forcibly proves the great advantage to be gained by directing aright the reasoning powers. As this is fully set forth in the Preface to Mr. Hall's Principal Roots of the Latin Language, he has caused it to be reprinted in the present work, for the information of those who may wish to refer to it: it may here suffice to say, that the observations therein contained, relative to the common mode of communicating a knowledge of Latin and Greek, equally apply to the mode of teaching the French, and indeed, all other languages. One great feature which mainly distinguishes Mr. Hall's mode of communicating foreign languages from all other systems at present known, is the imparting the words of the whole language, or at least the great body of them, previously to entering upon tran sla tion: the result of which is, that his pupils, after accomplishing this part of the course, are enabled to read whole volumes, while others are struggling over a few pages. 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.