Gujarati exercises

GUJARATI EXERCISES;

A NEW MODE OF LEARNING TO READ, WRITE,
OR SPEAK

ON THE Ollendorffiatn SYSTEM.

BY ROBERT YOUNG,

F. E. S. L.

LONDON:
TRUBNER & CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW.
SURAT: THE MISSION PRESS.
1860.

PREFATORY NOTE.

When, about fourteen years ago, I first acquired the elements of

tba German Language, it was by means of Ollendorff's Grammar.

The method he adopts is so different from that pursued by most

grammarians, and, in my opinion, so very natural, that the student

progresses with rapidity and ease, while, at the same time, he begins

much earlier to feel a real interest in the language which he is

studying—a never failing indication of success. Since that period

1 have applied the same method (in MS.) to other languages,—

the Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, Hindustani, etc.,—and have

found my precious conclusions justified by these experiments. Ko

attempt, however, has yet been made to submit this method in its

application to the Oriental Languages to the consideration of the

public, until the present one4

The Method adopted is very simple. It presents the student

with a few common words, denoting the most ordinary objects, to
commit to memory. Every Lesson gives a few more, while those
in the preceding Lessons are preserved in the memory by constant
repetition by means of the accompanying exercises for translation.
The first 24 lessons are,gone over simply by using the Present
Tense of the verb ' to have.' The Infinitive is first introduced in
the 25th Lesson, the Future in the 26th, the Past Tense and Par-
ticiples in the 42d; and so on, as may be seen in the Table of
Contents at the end of ihe volume. By this method the student
is insensibly made acquainted with all the forms of speech in tho
Language, without burdening the memory, or spending weari-
some hours over a Dictionary.

The want of a standard authority for the spelling of words in
Gujarati will account for the occasional variations that may bo
found in this work. Towards the end of the volume, also, the-
Exercises will be found much freer than at the commencement.

In the Appendix the student will find a considerable quantity
of materials cast into something like the old style of grammars,
and partly taken from them, Clarkson, ForLes,Leckie and Falkner*

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