Judge — April 1938 — page 50: what you’re looking at

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LINGUAPHONE Language Master to America AN AMAZING STORY OF SUCCESS IN TEACHING LANGUAGES IN THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN HOMES S YEARS ago the world-famous Linguaphone Institute opened its American offices, adding one of its most important links in the chain of Institute offices in almost all the civilized countries on earth. Soberly and conservatively the Institute told the American Pub- lic the story of the Linguaphone language method—how tens of thousands of men and women the world-over were learning lan- guages easily, quickly, pleasura- bly in their own homes, in their IN THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME Learning a foreign language by Lingua- phone is a delightful pastime ... You sit in comfort in your favorite easy chair and listen to the voices of the world’s native masters, brought to you by Linguaphone ... They are YOUR teachers, always at YOUR command ... They bring the living sounds and irit of another world into the Linguaphone is neither “miracle” nor “short cut” but a scien- tific, sound, accurate and easy method of language mastery with the drudgery eliminated, Anyone from 6 to 60 can learn to speak and read a language by Linguaphone. FROM FRENCH TO CHINESE Linguaphone offers courses in 23 languages—more than is offered by the largest universities. Linguaphone is the Uni- versity in the Home, and language headquarters of the world. Linguaphone Home Courses: FRENCH RUSSIAN DUTCH SPANISH IRISH HEBREW SWEDISH ITALIAN CHINESE AFRIKAANS POLISH PERSIAN JAPANESE ENGLISH FINNISH GERMAN ESPERANTO BENGALI HINDUSTANI CZECH LATIN r---- THIS COUPON WILL BRING YOU _ 32-PAGE ILLUSTRATED BOOK BY RETURN MAIL FREE LINGUAPHONE INSTITUTE 58 Rockefeller Center, New York Please send me free and without obligation full particulars about the new and easy way of learning languages. I am interested in the NAME . ADDRESS _..... OCCUPATION 48 The Black Columns Show the Remarkable Increase in Linguaphone Users Since the Fou of the Institute in 1923 Sylvia Sidney own time and with a minimum of expense. It also told the fascinating story of how Linguaphone came to be, how 150 language professors of the leading uni- versities of France, Germany, England, Italy, Spain, the United States and other coun- tries had cooperated in the formu- lation of a method which brought the actual voices of these masters into your home,—so that all you have to do now is to LISTEN... to hear the faultless pronuncia- tion, the correct native accent. @ “FIRST YOU LISTEN THEN YOU SPEAK" This is a literal summation of the Linguaphone Method, taking all the drudgery out of language learning. And America listened. First the educators in the American universities, colleges, private schools and high schools put Linguaphone to the most rigi Their enthusiastic verdict number of foremost educational insti- tutions today using the Linguaphone Language Courses. 1.103.000 indation ° Columtia University Sinclair Lewis University of Chicago H. G. Wells and get m few York University Hall Lotvie Lafayette College J.P. McEvoy Wesleyan College Maurice U. S. Naval Academy Maeterlinck Connecticut State College University of Denver Towa State Collere University of Oregon University of Nebraska Talane University Harvard University Syracuse University Cornell University City College of New York Catholic University of America Goucher College ‘And 1100 other institutions of learn- SINCLAIR LEWIS Wm. Lyon PI Paul Robeson Lanny Ross Paul Meni And thousands navy men, travelers and hundreds of others—all trying Linguaphone + + « listening to the persuasive voices of these language masters and then speaking the language of their choice in an incredibly short time. So from year to year Lingua- phone has grown in the affections of the thousands of people who mas- Then came men and women in every profession and ealling—actors and stars, an- nouncers, writers, lecturers, opera and concert singers, business men, engineers, physicians, diploma’ government employes, army an tered a language their home, addin; ment and increas power. (See chart of Linguaphone's amazing growth.) comicbooks.com