Show how to acquire a foreign vocabulary perhaps one of the best ways of firing the words and idioms of a language in one s mind is to teach them to somebody else the learner should try to impart to some member of his family what he has already mastered he should above all seela command first of words in familiar use leaving to a later stage of his progress the forms of literary expressions his first business is with the common objects of dail fe his last business is with general te d As he sits at his desk he ought to be able to name every article about him just as when he Is jiuing in the street car or on the railway lie should be able to mentally recall the equivalent for every detail in the moving panorama of objects boston herald |