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be treated as the one approach to all aspects of the study - pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar... Grammar is taught inductively and practiced by speaking, with occasional written exercises." In particular, "an inductive study of grammar should develop from the living language, and the grammatical
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Prokosch had an immense capacity for learning languages. His school report on graduation from the Eger gymnasium shows that he was deemed "excellent" in Greek, Latin and German and "commendable" in the Czech language. At the
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At Yale, Prokosch built a cottage, surrounded by a garden, in a wooded area some seven miles from the university. As he wrote in 1934, he would join his family in their home a few miles away for dinner and then retire to his cottage with his steadfast companion, Rolf, a
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descended "from the two most famous Great Dane stocks in existence, Schloss
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