A Companion Telugu Reader to Arden's Progressive Telugu Grammar (Classic Reprint)

The kind manner in which the PROGRESSIVE TBLDGU GRAMMAR has been received, and the very favourable opinions of it which have been expressed by many competent Critics, have encouraged the Author to publish this book of Exercises, which professes to be of an elementary character only. It consists of two parts. PART I supplies the Telugu Student with numerous illustrations of the rules taught in the successive chapters of PART II of the Progressive Telugu Grammar, while at the same time it supplies a useful series of progressive Exercises in colloquial Telugu. Besides some explanatory foot-notes, more that 1500 references to the Grammar are inserted in the text, which not only exemplify the rules, but also help the Student to become familiar with the Grammar, and to refer to the rules without difficulty. The Exercises are written in colloquial Telugu, and most of the conversations have been written by Natives, entirely ignorant of English. They are therefore thoroughly idiomatic, and in accordance with Native forms of thought and of expression, a feature which is peculiarly wanting in most exercise books hitherto published, in which the conversations are merely translations of essentially English conversations. The Exercises are not very numerous, because the Author sgreat desire is to impress upon the Student the supreme importance of thoroughly mastering whatever is read. Each exercise ought to be studied carefully several times, and if committed to memory, so much the better. PART II is merely a translation of the Exercises given in chapter xviii of the Grammar. The Manuscript has been circulated in several parts of the Telugu country, and thus the book has been made suitable to all localities. It has been read and revised by many competent persons, both European and Native, and will, it is hoped, prove a valuable help to the Telugu Student. A. H. ARDEN. See
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