Excerpt from Otto's French Conversation Grammar The daily increasing intercourse between England and France, and the greater necessity of understanding and speaking the French language may perhaps justify the publication of a new French Grammar, especially if such a grammar should offer a new and better method of instruction combined with greater practicability than those hitherto in use. Those books in which theory entirely supersedes the practice may be excellent for the dead languages, but they will never prove successful with modern languages. This French Conversation Grammar, which follows the same method as the Author's German Conversation Gram mar, combines the grammatical and logical exposition of the French language with the constant application of the different forms and rules to writing and speaking. The book is divided into lessons, each complete in itself, and containing in systematic arrangement a portion of the grammar, followed by a French Reading Exercise, in which the different forms appear applied to various sentences. An Exercise for translation into French, termed comes next; the lesson being concluded by an easy and familiar Conversation, re-embodying the matter introduced in the previous exercises. 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.