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 DIRECTIONS FOR USING THIS BOOK.

Learn perfectly, from a native teacher, the eight tones as given in the exercise on page 3.

Learn from pages 5 and 6 the Chinese sounds represented by the letters used in Romanizing them.

Learn how to pronounce correctly words with and without the aspirate, and with and without the nasal, using the exercises on page 7.

Learn to count accurately from pages 9 and 10.

Learn the lessons in their order, completely mastering each before beginning the next one. Be able to write the Chinese characters from memory, to translate the English into Chinese, and the Chinese into English, and look for fuller definitions of the same words in Williams’ Dictionary.

Exercise the ear more than the eye in learning the language.

A. M. F. Swatow, 1877.