COMMERCIAL GERMAN
By ARNOLD KUTNER
High School of Commerce, New York City Cloth. 12mo, 4-04- pp., tvilh -Vocabulary. Trice, $l.OO
npHIS book is intended for use in commercial schools and •** in commercial courses of high schools, and is designed to furnish much information which will prove useful in later business life. It is the first attempt to introduce American students to a foreign language by means of its commercial vocabulary.
The book, which is complète in itself, is divided into two parts. Part I. contains the éléments of commercial German, and is designed to carry the student to the threshold of business correspondence. Each of the sixteen lessons contains a reading lesson, spécial vocabulary, exercise on grammar, and questions. Following thèse are thirty-one brief grammatical tables of the principal parts of speech, with références to the reading lessons which illustrate them.
Part IL is intended to widen the commercial vocabulary by means of reading sélections dealing with German business customs and institutions. It is, moreover, devoted to the study of commercial correspondence, business forms, documents, newspaper articles, and advertisements. Sélections i to 20 are intended to form the center of instruction and to provide material for re-translation, reproduction, composition, and conversation. A vocabulary and a list of strong, mixed, and irregular verbs complètes the book.
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