Ollendorf's System, a method of learning languages, invented by H. G. Ollendorf (1803-65), and designed for those who teach themselves. The grammars are meant to give the student a mastery of the conversational forms of the language, grammatical rules being few.
Ollendorf's System
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 600
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