Preface to the reader.
This Reader contains nearly 1500 different words. The lessons are graded as slowly, as the limited space, and introduction of as many new words as possible, would allow. The lessons are on a variety of subjects, and include a great many sentences used in ordinary conversation. Gospel truths have been introduced as far as practicable. The Chinese portion is in the Canton dialect, which is the spoken language of the Chinese in America, Australia, and the Sandwich Islands. The object of using this dialect, instead of the more elegant style of their language, is to give the learner the meaning of the English in plain and simple words, such as he himself would use in expressing the same thing.
I. M. C.
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卷內選擇英話千五 五字語淺易學初登 程者 奉爲要津果 能先 其㪚列之字 繼熟 串字之義但 通讀 英之常 用要 可識其半矣 故凡貿易者傭 老 衙署往來者均可藉 以應酧至卷中 句 英話多以顯淺華語 達之緣欲達以深語 恐語蒙意蔽致不相
Copyright, 1882,
By American Tract Society.
