Manesca’s Serial and Oral Spanish

Building · taught by Jean Manesca Simulacrum

The only other full-length Manesca method course ever printed. Don Carlos Rabadan — a Spanish professor in New York and a sixteen-year practitioner of Manesca’s system — compiled this from actual classroom records beginning Wednesday the 4th of November, 1840. The dated lessons make it the most historically specific language teaching record of the nineteenth century. Published New York, 1846: Manesca’s Oral System of Teaching Living Languages, Illustrated by a Practical Course of Lessons in the Spanish Language.

The method is identical to the French: no translation in the presentation phase, no grammar tables, vocabulary introduced orally, drilled through real questions, and carried forward into every subsequent lesson. The pool accumulates. Jean Manesca himself is the host — it is his system. Rabadan is introduced in the course introduction.

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