Excerpt from A New French Reader: Which Will Enable Any Student To Read French Correctly And With A Pure Accent, In Twenty Lessons, At MostWhen two single vowels are united, if the first be a round vowel and the second a straight, they form a new vowel, called double vowel, which has as pure a sound as each of the two vowels by which it is formed. Therefore, when the student meets two single vowels together, he should be careful and see if the first is a round and the second a straight, for, any other com bination of vowels form a diphthong, in which each vowel retains its proper sound.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.