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

Unit name	Translated	Male recording	Female recording
Weather	DONE	TODO	TODO
Countries and Cultures	DONE	DONE	TODO
Sport	DONE	DONE	TODO
Time and Dates	DONE	TODO	TODO
Numbers	DONE	TODO	TODO
Alphabet	DONE	TODO	TODO
Tourism	DONE	TODO	TODO
Family	DONE	TODO	TODO
Clothing	DONE	TODO	TODO
At the doctor	DONE	TODO	TODO
Entertainment	DONE	TODO	TODO

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