HOW TO USE THIS BOOK. The best test of having thoroughly learned any section of the book is the ability to read and write the corresponding exercise fluently and correctly. After doing this, the section should again be read, to see that all its directions are fully understood, but memorizing is not recommended.
Persons who are not trained in the study of languages had better not
examin the "Synopsis of Inflections" until after they have mastered Exercise
25 with all before it. They are then recommended to make a Copy of the
Synopsis, leaving blanks for the Volapük letters, which they will
afterwards fill up from memory.
As additional practice, take at any time a few words of the Vocabulary
and compose some Volapük sentences introducing those words, together
with the other words and forms already known. Try to compose in Volapük
from the idea, without thinking of the English way of expressing it. Take
the Volapük sentences given in the exercises as frames, and
fit in other nouns, verbs and adjectives.
For teaching classes, I recommend blackboard lessons, based on the exercises
and preceding the study of the text. Each lesson should embrace review-practice
on foregoing sections and preparatory exercise on coming subjects. Oral
lessons for schools, entirely inductiv, will be published hereafter.
Linguists or philologists who desire to obtain a general knowledge of
the structure of the language can do so by an hour's study of the fable
of "Abraham and the Old Man," with the "Model of Translation and Grammatical
Analysis" referring to the Synopsis of Inflection.