Anyone got an early linguaphone book?

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Anyone got an early linguaphone book?

Postby Cainntear » Thu Jun 20, 2019 2:24 pm

Howdy. I'm writing a dissertation about the use of images in vocabulary teaching, and I was wanting to go back as far as I could. Did early-1900s Linguaphone courses include illustrations in the books? If so, can anyone point me to where I might find an example online, or have an early book in their collection and could send me an image of a page or two from an early lesson with illustrations?

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Re: Anyone got an early linguaphone book?

Postby Speakeasy » Thu Jun 20, 2019 3:20 pm

Dating Linguaphone courses is rather difficult as, up until the 1950’s (I believe), the publisher did not indicate the year of publication. Nevertheless, I am under the impression that the oldest Linguaphone course in my collection dates from the 1920’s. The accompanying documentation (which may be incomplete) was limited to two slim pamphlets, one containing the L2 text and the other an English translation. Neither pamphlet contained illustrations. I "suspect" that Linguaphone began including illustrations in their course manuals during the 1930's (see image below).

As an aside, one of my vintage Linguaphone courses includes a small pamphlet entitled “Supplementary Booklet to the Illustrated Text Book”, mostly likely from the 1930s-1940s, which contains the following footnote: “Sets of wall-pictures, size 30. ins by 40 ins., similar to the full-page illustrations in the text book, are available for class tuition.”

As far as I understand, elexi has an extensive collection of vintage Linguaphone courses. I have sent him an Email containing a link to this discussion thread.

Linguaphone Course Book (1930's ???)
Linguaphone Course Book (1930s )..JPG


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Re: Anyone got an early linguaphone book?

Postby DaveAgain » Thu Jun 20, 2019 3:28 pm

Cainntear wrote:Howdy. I'm writing a dissertation about the use of images in vocabulary teaching, and I was wanting to go back as far as I could. Did early-1900s Linguaphone courses include illustrations in the books? If so, can anyone point me to where I might find an example online, or have an early book in their collection and could send me an image of a page or two from an early lesson with illustrations?

Thanks!
Linguaphone's website mentions a Rees Pictorial Language course
The first Linguaphone courses, intended initially as classroom aids for language teachers, combined native speech with the illustrated texts of the Rees Pictorial Language books. These Mr Roston acquired, together with the International Linguaphone Company and the Rees Linguaphone records, then on cylinders.

http://www.linguaphonegroup.com/about-us/heritage/

Mr Lindqvist mentioned a 1901 pictorial course.

https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 27#p139627

And archive.org have a 1910 copy of "the pictorial german course". (which is a tenth edition)

https://archive.org/details/cihm_83562/

"The teaching and cultivation of the French language in England during Tudor and Stuart times" might mention use of pictures. I remember rhymes being mentioned, perhaps there were illustrations too?

https://archive.org/details/teachingcultivat00lambiala/
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Re: Anyone got an early linguaphone book?

Postby Elexi » Fri Jun 21, 2019 8:56 pm

One of the earliest picture language books was Comenius's Orbis Sensualium Pictus for teaching children Latin - First published in German in 1658 and in English in 1659.

Repro of the 1658 German version here:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q ... ZWVIjkom7Y

1705 English edition
https://archive.org/download/johamoscom ... 00come.pdf

I have a few 1920-30s Linguaphones - they are all pretty much the same as the version Speakeasy exhibited. If you want I can dig them out and put up a few pictures.
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Re: Anyone got an early linguaphone book?

Postby Cainntear » Sat Jun 22, 2019 8:02 pm

Much obliged all -- very useful for my background section!
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