User:Tenthmost/temp

Ideas
The two existing courses, Learning the basics of French and Français II, are verbose and hard to follow. The French wikibook is prettier and more comprehensive but still kind of sloppy and stubby.

My feeling is that pronunciations should be given in the IPA. Some people can't read it but it's easy to learn and is actually quite useful because you can look up individual sounds. The alternative ("bawn-zhoor" or something) is ugly and confusing. Sound files should be used wherever possible/available.

Smaller lessons with examples, pictures, attractive formatting (tables, etc.) will make the courses more manageable for editors and students.

There should be three courses, named French 1, French 2, and French 3.

French 1

 * 1) Introduction (very brief what-to-expect, history, etc.)
 * 2) Alphabet and pronunciation (this is a fairly good start: French/Lessons/Alphabet)
 * 3) Basic phrases (bonjour, merci, comment t'appelles-tu, il y a)
 * 4) Subject pronouns (prerequisite for examining verbs)
 * 5) Articles and numbers
 * 6) Être and avoir in the present tense (prerequisite for examining idiomatic expressions and compound tenses)
 * 7) -er verbs in the present tense
 * 8) Days and months
 * 9) -ir verbs in the present tense
 * 10) Colours
 * 11) -re verbs in the present tense
 * 12) le passé composé