Excerpt from The Mother Tongue, Vol. 1: Lessons in Speaking, Reading and Writing English All these common things, if they could talk, might ask you a hundred questions about them selves. But to every question you would give the same answer: I do not know. Yet the com mon things are the most interesting, after all, and are best worth studying. One of the common things which serve you every day is the English language. You have used this language ever since you began to talk. You have spoken it everywhere - at home, at ...
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Excerpt from The Mother Tongue, Vol. 1: Lessons in Speaking, Reading and Writing English All these common things, if they could talk, might ask you a hundred questions about them selves. But to every question you would give the same answer: I do not know. Yet the com mon things are the most interesting, after all, and are best worth studying. One of the common things which serve you every day is the English language. You have used this language ever since you began to talk. You have spoken it everywhere - at home, at school, at play. You are constantly using it. It is your servant. Do you know what it does for you? How much do you know about it? Tell me this: Do all children speak the same language? No. You say in English, I'go to school. The German boy says, Ich gehe in die Schule. The French boy says, Je vais a l'ecole. You speak in the English language, the German boy in the German language, the French boy in the French language. Every language has names of its own for all common things. You often Speak of your house Were you French, you would say ma maison if you were German, you would say mein Haus instead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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