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  1. While teaching in Providence, Maximilian Berlitz hired Joly, a young Frenchman as his assistant. However, upon Joly’s arrival in the U.S., Berlitz found out that his new assistant did not speak a single word of English.

  2. Apr 4, 2024 · The “direct method” was discovered around 1900 by a German linguist Maximilian Berlitz “by accident”. Berlitz was teaching French using the traditional grammar approach. One time, when sick, he asked his French assistant Nicholas Joly, who did not speak English at all, to do his best to teach French to the students.

  3. Maximilian Delphinius Berlitz (or Maximilien Berlitz, born David Berlizheimer; April 14, 1852 – April 6, 1921) was a linguist and the founder of the Berlitz Language Schools, the first of which he established in 1878 in Providence, Rhode Island.

  4. While teaching in Providence, Maximilian Berlitz hired Joly, a young Frenchman as his assistant. However, upon Joly’s arrival in the U.S., Berlitz found out that his new assistant did not speak a single word of English.

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  5. Jun 16, 2009 · The method was developed by Maximilian Berlitz, who migrated from Germany to the United States in 1872. His initial intention was to teach different languages using the traditional grammar approach. However, hiring a French assistant changed his perspective entirely.

  6. While teaching in Providence, Maximilian Berlitz hired Joly, a young Frenchman, as his assistant. However, upon arriving in the US, Berlitz discovered that his new assistant didn’t speak a single word of English.

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