The Phonogram (1902-11)

Page scan 0007 from The Phonogram

Record Details:

Title:
The Phonogram
Date:
1902-11
Volume:
The Phonogram (II), Issue 31
Leaf #:
0007
Language:
English
Subjects:
honograph,"Phonograph History, Thomas Edison","National Phonograph Company","Sound Recording History
Collection:
Recorded Sound
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 20, 2022
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were the oral recitations by many students, and, with all the patience and interest that could be applied, these teachers were correcting the efforts of their pupils in every part of the United States to speak the foreign tongues. “Can these pupils make good enough records for you to hear plainly ?" I asked. 1 was requested to sit down before an instrument and listen to a recitation. The pro- fessor proceeded. “All we have to do, is to demonstrate a lesson, and th? person is converted to our method. Now, we will give you the first lesson, such as we send to our students. You enroll in our schools, and wherever the mails reach we send you the*e printed lesson papers, and deliver to you a Phonograph and a complete equipment for language study. With the lesson papers go the Phonograph Records of the professor’s voice, giving the foreign pronunciation. The student hears these words and sentences at first through the hearing-tubes, while he reads the foreign and English text in the book—that is, he learns at once through the eye and the ear. Afterward the horn may take the place of the hearing-tubes, and the pupil may walk around the room while he fixes the foreign sounds in his memory. Repetition is the keynote of any successful teaching, and here we have an instrument built for it. It repeats patiently, accurately, tirelessly, once or a thousand nrllnkla urnrH a nhriSP or a sentence. Let the