"As for the most effective and successful method of studying for the examination, I should recommend, after mastering the Complete Text-Book, a careful reading of Hamlet and the Fundamenta Krestomatio, with Esperanta Sintakso, by Fruictier. For example, take some anecdote from the Krestomatio. Read it two or three times aloud. Then ask yourself various questions by words such as Who (m), Whose, Where (Whither), How, Why, When? To vary the study repeat the anecdote, using tenses other than those employed in the text itself. For example, the text possibly narrates the matter as having happened at some past time. Well, the student could remodel the anecdote, placing the concatenation of events in the Present AS, or in the Future OS; and afterwards in the compound tenses: Estis ... inta (j), k.t.p. In this manner the study really becomes interesting, and the pupil will very soon master Esperanto’s very simple Grammar.
"One can also adopt another course with good results. With the aid of the English-Esperanto Dictionary one can train one’s self as follows. While performing any actions one can name them in Esperanto. Thus, getting up early (or late) in the morning, enumerate the series of actions. I get up, I stand up, I put on my stockings, etc. I am dressed (I was about to be dressed). I wash, I have breakfast, I work, etc. All these actions can be analyzed and extended, and supply most interesting imaginary conversations and grammatical exercises.
That is the famous Gouin method of studying languages; it gives remarkable results. Thus words and expressions are preserved in the memory, and one does not wearily learn new words parrot-method. And such a system is practicable for conversational classes, as it saves time and concentrates the thoughts of the pupils. Messrs. George Phillips & Sons, Ltd., 32, Fleet Street, London, publish a very interesting and thought-inspiring series of books compiled on the Gouin system.
N.B.—It is almost certain that in a short time the wishes of so many adepts will be fulfilled, and a British examination will be founded. The matter is now under consideration.—(The Editor).
La Onklino diris al sia nevino: "Ne ploru, karulino, aŭ ci malbeliĝos."
"Ĉu vi multe estas plorinta, kiam vi estis juna?" respondis la infanino.
(P de B).
DUA ORIGINALA SKIZETO, VERKITA DE E.W.
Nia Fraŭlino.