Course Data Planning

The basic course skeleton is maintained in the GIT repository artikulate-data and provides the foundation for languages supported by Artikulate.

Fully supported Languages

A fully supported languages is a language that must cover at least 90% of the phrases from the basic course skeleton. A course file update is only published once this threshold is met. Currently the following languages are fully supported:

(to be discussed)

Basic Course Skeleton Planning

The basic course skeleton currently contains the following units:

Status	Name	Description	Coordination
DONE	Tourism	telling directions, sightseeing	<Magdalena>
DONE	In a Restaurant	eating out	<Oindrila> Template:FeatureInProgress2
DONE	Alphabet	letters of the Latin alphabet	<Andreas>
DONE	Numbers	small numbers up to 20, some large numbers	<Andreas>
DONE	Family	family members, family relations	<Magdalena>
DONE	Sport	doing sports, watching sports	<Magdalena>
DONE	Entertainment	books, cinema, going out, music	<Magdalena>
DONE	Clothing	clothing names, sizes, colors, designs (stripes, plain, etc.)	<Magdalena>
DONE	At the supermarket	basic food products, food quantities, basic questions at the shop	<Magdalena>
DONE	Time and dates	telling the time, months, days of the week, dates, important date names	<Magdalena>
DONE	At the doctor's	body parts, illnesses	<Magdalena>
DONE	Weather	weather descriptions, seasons, climate	<Magdalena>
DONE	Countries and cultures	country names, basic information about origin and culture( e.g. food, outfit, etc.)	<Magdalena>
DONE	At a Party	socializing	<Oindrila>
DONE	In a Zoo	animals at the zoo and their basic behaviour	<Oindrila>
DONE	Pets	pet animals and their basic behaviour	<Oindrila>
DONE	At a Job Interview	handling a job interview	<Oindrila>
DONE	At a Bank	basic transactions at a bank	<Oindrila>
DONE	During an Emergency	handling natural calamities, theft, fires, etc.	<Oindrila>

Langauge Courses Planning

French

The french course skeleton currently contains the following units:

Status	Name	Description	Coordination
DONE	Tourism	telling directions, sightseeing	<Magdalena>
DONE	In a Restaurant	eating out	<Oindrila> Template:FeatureInProgress2
DONE	Alphabet	letters of the Latin alphabet	<Andreas>
DONE	Numbers	small numbers up to 20, some large numbers	<Andreas>
DONE	Family	family members, family relations	<Magdalena>
DONE	Sport	doing sports, watching sports	<Magdalena>
DONE	Entertainment	books, cinema, going out, music	<Magdalena>
DONE	Clothing	clothing names, sizes, colors, designs (stripes, plain, etc.)	<Magdalena>
DONE	At the supermarket	basic food products, food quantities, basic questions at the shop	<Magdalena>
DONE	Time and dates	telling the time, months, days of the week, dates, important date names	<Magdalena>
DONE	At the doctor's	body parts, illnesses	<Magdalena>
DONE	Weather	weather descriptions, seasons, climate	<Magdalena>
DONE	Countries and cultures	country names, basic information about origin and culture( e.g. food, outfit, etc.)	<Magdalena>
DONE	At a Party	socializing	<Oindrila>
DONE	In a Zoo	animals at the zoo and their basic behaviour	<Oindrila>
DONE	Pets	pet animals and their basic behaviour	<Oindrila>
DONE	At a Job Interview	handling a job interview	<Oindrila>
DONE	At a Bank	basic transactions at a bank	<Oindrila>
DONE	During an Emergency	handling natural calamities, theft, fires, etc.	<Oindrila>

Interesting Topics/Courses

The following topics sound interesting but they are too specific to be included in the general course skeleton:

Proverbs: common local proverbs
Computer Science Technical Speaking: English language course that covers the usual problems for CS students when they give talks