William Ashmore

“ Too much cannot be said in favor of this method of learning Chinese, for it enables one to follow a Chinaman in his thoughts, and furnishes the learner with the nouns and verbs appropriate to the topic in hand. ”

“ House Building.—Thâu-soin liú-tī-kha, first you dig a foundation,—jiên-ãu chiũ cheng tī-kha, then pound the foundation,—kàu cheng tī-kha hó--liáu, when you have pounded the foundation all right;—ho̍k ũ-nâng, li-i-i, i thūn-kûin phou-pên, perhaps there will be some men, ah,—they will fill it up and level it off;—liáu chiũ khiã sì-kak kâi-sāi, this done, stand upright the four corner boards,—liáu chiũ hẽ pui-pang, this being done you will then place in position the pounding boards ”