Frederick Bodmer (actually Friedrich Bodmer) (14 February 1894 – 2 January 1960) was a Swiss philologist and author of the popular book The Loom of Language.

Essentially, the approach to "mastery" is to find the minimum number of vocabulary and grammar to learn (by flipping to the back of the book for the former, and read one of two grammar chapters for the latter), and "do it".I believe that the appendices (dubbed The Language Museum), in which the author gives 500 basic vocabularies for the Teutonic and Romance languages, along with the common Greek roots for the technical terminology, would alone be a worthy collection. Almost all of the practical language-learning material is still fresh, but the terminology used is a bit dated and a lot of the scholarship lacks details and revisions made more recently. Perhaps I am a bleeding-heart liberal when it comes to the underprivileged (especially the poor who are usually immigrants) but rampant inequality among groups of people is heart-breaking to me; and even though it sounds trite and clichéd, I still believe that learning foreign languages plays a large part in making the world a better place. But this book is more than a guide to foreign languages; it goes deep into the roots of all knowledge as it explores the history of speech. You want a closer, albeit time-consuming, look at the languages surrounding you (and they'll always be "Euro-centric" wherever you live)?

The German letter W stands now for our sound, as the German V in Vater (father) stands for our sound. Other similar books teach you to learn any language, including those outside the Indo-European language family that share literally nothing with your native tongue, English. urn:lcp:loomoflanguage0000bodm:epub:f6693c7e-f0b5-451f-8b6c-9630f8ff5de2 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier loomoflanguage0000bodm Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0tr8m03r Invoice 1652 Isbn 039330034X Lccn 85015222 Ocr tesseract 5.When I first read the book many years ago I was inspired by it, driven to master languages the way Bodmer suggested, and I still use many of the ideas in the book as a guide towards my own continuing education in languages and cultures of the world. Bodmer also knew seventy years ago that children do not learn new languages any more easily than adults, but this also remains a popular misconception.

With time, although I have only studied Spanish and he seems to concentrate more on French, I have learned enough of the common traits and also differences that I can almost read the four common latin languages that he discusses.Well suited for older people and laymen who are interested in languages and linguistics, but certainly not very technical or scientific. so im adding this idc🥴) ive read MOST pages tho and the sections I was really interested in (ie its part 2 and the part 4 when needed) besides some ppl even treat this book like dictionary and not to be read from page to page. The last third was grandpa going on a rant, mischaracterizing several international languages, and dreaming up an international auxiliary language that would be more efficient than any other invented before.

The author's purpose was to aid people to be able to communicate with each other so that understanding between people would contribute to the prevention of future wars. Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. In Mathematics for a Million (1936) and Science for a Citizen (1938), Hogben offered adult readers detailed and readable texts on difficult subjects.

The binding suffers moderate to severe loosening due to age and wear, but remains secure and in-tact; the pages are clean and unmarked.