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Linguaphone|ˈlɪŋgwəfəʊn|
Also linguaphone.
[f. lingua 2 + -phone after gramophone.]
The proprietary name of a language-teaching system based on the use of gramophone records in conjunction with textbooks (see quots.). Also attrib.
1908Westm. Gaz. 29 Feb. 7/1 (Advt.), The Linguaphone. This machine.. teaches languages by a marvellous system of phonographic records. 1913Chambers's Jrnl. Nov. 830/2 In the linguaphone system..the records are prepared by distinguished speakers of the various languages. 1925Trade Marks Jrnl. 4 Nov. 2397 Linguaphone..instruments and apparatus for teaching. Jacques Roston,..London,..teacher of languages and translator. 1926Glasgow Herald 28 Feb. 9 The Linguaphone Institute has produced a system by means of which one can, in his own home, from book and gramophone record obtain a working knowledge of languages. 1936P. Fleming News from Tartary 162, I had left Peking with a minute..Chinese vocabulary, based on the first half-dozen records of a linguaphone course. 1962L. Deighton Ipcress File xxv. 161 Suppose I buy you a Linguaphone course. 1966A. E. Lindop I start Counting xv. 174 They had bought some Linguaphone records—so everything was ‘quel’ this and ‘quel’ that. 1974Country Life 14 Feb. 304/2 Brito e Cunha breaks off the native-tongue chat..for a caution of ‘Hold hard!’ or ‘I say, sta-idy there!’ in linguaphone Leicestershire. |