 | Richard Kron - Language and languages - 1900 - 200 pages
...doubt the previous grounding in French which the elder boys had received from their tutor stood them in good stead, although both they and their tutor...examination but for the six months' training under M. Gouiris syntem. In the case of" Jack, however, M. Bétis had virgin soil to work upon. Jack is only... | |
 | Europe - 1893 - 770 pages
...doubt the previous grounding in French which the elder boys had received from their tutor stood them in good stead, although both they and their tutor...the six months' training under M. Gouin's system. Li the case of Jack, however, M. Bétis had virgin soil to work upon. He is only nine years old, and... | |
 | Albert Shaw - Literature - 1893 - 714 pages
...received from their tutor stood them in good stead, although both they and their tutor frankly adniit that they never would have been able to have gone...he had never opened a French grammar. He also told his stories in French and took part in the French conversation, and fully justified what Mr. Swan had... | |
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Poiré is a Frenchman born, and Madame de Leeuw has half a dozen languages at the tip of her tongue. No doubt the previous grounding in French which the elder boys had received from their tutor stood them in good stead, although both they and their tutor... 