crafedog Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5817 days ago 166 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Korean, Tok Pisin, French
| Message 1 of 7 11 February 2012 at 6:04am | IP Logged |
Hello everyone
Has anyone heard of/does anyone know where I can find "English by the Nature Method",
"Le français par la méthode nature" or "L'Italiano secondo il "metodo natura" by Arthur
Jensen?
These are books based on the 'Direct Method' and appear to have been published by "The
Nature Method Publishing Companies" (which I can find almost no trace of). I think they
inspired the "Lingua Latina" series by Hans Henning Orberg judging by the few traces
I've managed to find of them.
Has anyone heard of these books/know if they're in copyright/where I can get them?
Edit: Just found a similar book to the Lingua Latina book by William G.Most called
"Latin by the Natural Method".
Edited by crafedog on 11 February 2012 at 9:49am
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mr_intl_dj Newbie United States Joined 6683 days ago 23 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English
| Message 2 of 7 12 February 2012 at 8:16pm | IP Logged |
No such luck. The closest thing I found was something at google books.
http://books.google.com/
A first lesson in French by François Gouin. very very old book
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magictom123 Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5592 days ago 272 posts - 365 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French
| Message 3 of 7 12 February 2012 at 11:15pm | IP Logged |
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/ol/B0007KEPXQ/
ref=aw_d_ol
Ta dah!
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palfrey Senior Member Canada Joined 5272 days ago 81 posts - 180 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French
| Message 4 of 7 31 May 2012 at 5:24am | IP Logged |
The moderators may frown on this. But as these books appear to be out of print, and used copies are difficult to obtain (at least in my attempts), I mention something I just stumbled upon:
Do a google search for "English by the Nature Method", perhaps with "scribd" included in the search query. You may be pleasantly surprised. Also, check the user's other books. You may also find the French and Italian books you were looking for.
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Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4681 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German
| Message 5 of 7 20 August 2012 at 4:08pm | IP Logged |
crafedog wrote:
These are books based on the 'Direct Method' and appear to have been
published by "The
Nature Method Publishing Companies" (which I can find almost no trace of). I think they
inspired the "Lingua Latina" series by Hans Henning Orberg judging by the few traces
I've managed to find of them. |
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There is some background information (in Spanish, with links to scholar articles) in
this page:
http://www.culturaclasica.com/lingualatina/informacion.htm .
crafedog wrote:
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his Italian site is openly hosting them, along with some other very old materials, so I
guess that nowadays they are in the public domain.
http://www.vivariumnovum.it/edizioni/index.php/Libri/Il-meto do-diretto-applicato-alle-
lingue-moderne.html
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daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7143 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek
| Message 6 of 7 20 August 2012 at 5:16pm | IP Logged |
Here's a direct link to the site provided above:
http://www.vivariumnovum.it/edizioni/index.php/Libri/Il-meto do-diretto-applicato-alle-lingue-moderne.html
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sipes23 Diglot Senior Member United States pluteopleno.com/wprs Joined 4869 days ago 134 posts - 235 votes Speaks: English*, Latin Studies: Spanish, Ancient Greek, Persian
| Message 7 of 7 21 August 2012 at 1:52am | IP Logged |
I'm about 200 pages in on the Italian. If you like the LLPSI, you'll be down with the Italian. Added bonus: IPA
pronunciation is printed below the text for the first several chapters.
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