Talk:German/Appendices/Grammar II

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There is a tendency for contributors to want to rush ahead and give lots of information in tabular form. While I believe there is a place for this, the text of a lesson book should follow a gradual program of introducing simpler concepts first and then building on these. This page is now a good example. Verb conjugation needs to be spread out over many lessons, although the information and tables collected here make a good reference for the student to fall back on. The layout of this book (IMHO) should allow both approaches. Therefore, I am moving this page to an Appendix to serve as a resource for developing future lessons and as a permanent part of the book intact as a reference for the student. Hope I do not step on too many toes; both approaches are valuable, but different - Marsh 03:08, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)~

I agree completely that such a clump of tabular information needs to be saved for an appendix, and the work already done is excellent for an introduction. My only concern is that the tabular format for most conjugations seems incompletely labeled; without labelings for each part of speech, I'm afraid that newcomers to the language may find these tables difficult to decipher.

I'm new wiki formatting, but I hope that the 'sein' conjugation chart I modified gives a sense for what I'm talking about. It's certainly not perfect: perhaps someone with more table skills could edit the other tables to include a better set of top-line identifiers. - Saxo, 12 Feb 2004


 * Sorry. I just picked up on your note. When I move pages around I do not always mark them to be watched! You are right.  I can handle the table formatting, but you did good - Marsh 02:59, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)