I have a little French Reader—Advanced French Conversation—from 1942. I also have a German Reader, a Teach Yourself book, from 1964. Both are small and easy to carry around, albeit of limited use.
They both speak of patterns, to some degree at least. But they have an anal-retentive approach to learning them. For example:
“Five or ten minutes devoted daily to one conversation should suffice for the proper mastery of it within a week.”
The “constructions” are “singled out for attention”.
I find it fascinating to discover I already have a good intuitive sense of German word order.
Today: D2 J2 G1
Total: J53 D29 G15 Sp5 F1
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