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There's an amusing comic novel by Andrew Drummond called "A Handbook of Volapuk" (itself a reference to a 19th century textbook of that name). It's about the 19
by jhbadger 5y ago
There's an amusing comic novel by Andrew Drummond called "A Handbook of Volapuk" (itself a reference to a 19th century textbook of that name). It's about the 19th century Volapuk movement. Volapuk was an early attempt at an artificial language, like Esperanto, but earlier. The novel includes scenes of Volapuk lessons and they are actually accurate, although of dubious practical use.
- daniel-cussen 5y agoAn earlier one is Latin. In reading Familia Romana Per Se Illustrata, you see it's like a made-up language.
- Jtsummers 5y agoThere's a set of books on this, called the "direct method" or "nature method" A page with a link to several of these: https://blog.nina.coffee/2018/08/27/all_nature_method_books.html https://blog.nina.coffee/2018/08/27/all_nature_method_books.... (the site that it refers to is where I initially found the same list of books, but it seems to be defunct) https://vivariumnovum.it/risorse-didattiche/propria-formazione/metodo-diretto-applicato-alle-lingue-moderne https://vivariumnovum.it/risorse-didattiche/propria-formazio... (defunct, it seems)
- inetsee 5y agoThere is also a set of 3 books by I. A. Richards titled "English Through Pictures.I think it's a useful idea, but the pictures in these books are fairly primitive stick figure drawings.