The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages

Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples.

It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages-Teutonic, Romance, Greek-helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful appr...