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"French Conversation and Composition" by Harry Vincent Wann is an instructional guide designed for learners of the French language, likely written in the early 20th century. This book aims to facilitate conversation and provide a review of elementary grammar principles, making it suitable for students who are beginning to learn French. It utilizes anecdotes and structured exercises as tools to enhance vocabulary acquisition and grammatical understanding. The opening portion of this work introduces the author’s twofold purpose: stimulating spontaneous conversation and offering a systematic review of fundamental grammar. The preface emphasizes the difficulty teachers face in engaging students without a practical framework and explains the author's reliance on anecdotes drawn from his own experience in conversation classes. The structure includes a section on anecdotes followed by grammar reviews, ensuring that students are not only entertained but also effectively improving their langua

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PREFACE

This little volume has been prepared with a twofold purpose in
mind: to provide material (1) for conversation and (2) for a
review in the elementary principles of the grammar.

To attempt to stimulate spontaneous conversation, even on simple
subjects, without the aid of a French model, not only is hazardous
but often becomes aimless, and at best results in the acquisition
of a limited vocabulary. Furthermore, it requires a skilful teacher
to adapt to such purposes the substance of a text prepared with
a totally different end in view.

The author, in the course of five years' experience with conversation
classes in the University of Michigan, had difficulty in finding
material for this work in a form that was adapted peculiarly
to his needs. Plays and anecdotes were found to yield the best
results.

Another need is that of books offering a systematic review of
the first year's work. In every class will be found a certain
per cent of students who translate readily but who have only a
hazy notion as to the practical application of some of the most
fundamental principles of the grammar.

It is hoped that this book will help to fill the two needs above
referred to. The anecdotes have been selected from a large number
used by the author in conversational classes and drawn from a great
variety of sources, many of which will be readily recognized.
He is in a number of cases indebted to Claude Augé's excellent
grammar. Most of the anecdotes have been adapted to the author's
purpose of illustrating grammatical principles. Questionnaires
have been inserted.

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