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| phonology Groupie Peru Joined 3711 days ago 40 posts - 48 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 1 of 15 18 February 2015 at 2:58am | IP Logged | ||
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What language learning books existed before 1900? more before linguaphone Year 1920 Edited by phonology on 18 February 2015 at 3:10am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4443 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes  Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 2 of 15 18 February 2015 at 5:00am | IP Logged | ||
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In ancient times people don't travel as much. The ones who did such as Arab traders in E. Africa or on the Silk
Road would learn to say a few common phrases from the people they met along the trade routes. I don't think there were any official travel guides back then where you can see photos and description of places before you visit. As far as language learning books there may be ones to explain the rules in a language written in that language but nothing for foreigns like a language reference for English speakers trying to learn German or Japanese for instance. "The Ashtadhyayi" is arguably the oldest book on Sanskrit grammar rules. Edited by shk00design on 18 February 2015 at 5:01am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
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People didn't travel as much, but there were plenty of multilingual areas and classical/liturgical languages that
required study. What kind of books or other materials were used in medieval times to learn Latin? What about Jewish and non-Arab Islamic scholars learning Hebrew and Arabic? The predecessors of today's language books were certainly already taking shape before 1900--Berlitz was already publishing books in the late nineteenth century. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
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If one can trust Wikipedia, Iohannes Amos Comenius was maybe the first to write a course for learning Latin in the early 17th Century and he also published the world's first illustrated children's book in Latin.
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| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4532 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 5 of 15 18 February 2015 at 12:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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What did Richard Burton do? Edited by patrickwilken on 18 February 2015 at 1:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Glarus Girl Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4574 days ago 50 posts - 108 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Swiss-German | Message 6 of 15 18 February 2015 at 1:03pm | IP Logged | ||
Baedeker were a famous travel guide publisher from the 1820's so they did exist. You can find old language books on Google Play going back to the 1800's. I have a physical book for learning German from 1840. Edited by Glarus Girl on 18 February 2015 at 1:14pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
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Learn the languages in the country through immersion? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| akkadboy Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5407 days ago 264 posts - 497 votes Speaks: French*, English, Yiddish Studies: Latin, Ancient Egyptian, Welsh | Message 8 of 15 18 February 2015 at 1:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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See here for a 18th century Manchu textbook designed for Chinese speakers.
Part 1 is about the writing system and pronunciation Part 2 is the main one and consists of dialogues Part 3 deals with grammar Part 4 is mainly about words that may be mistaken one for another. There's an English translation by Wylie. The oldest learning material I can think of now of are bilingual lexical lists from Mesopotamia but I guess they do not qualify as textbooks. Other than that there are quite a few examples of Latin-Ancient Greek dialogue books (from Late Antiquity, if my memory serves me well). 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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