Talk:Irish/Lesson Plan

I completely disagree with this proposed lesson plan, it is illogical and unbalanced and does not follow what most other language learning courses do.

My original idea was to have some kind of story with a few characters doing something like visiting Ireland, and introducing grammar concepts along the way, this is how the language books I've used before were. However, Irish is fairly unique in grammar and so on, so needs to be done a little differently. Having an entire unit dedicated to pronunciation doesn't make sense, the best way to get that is with audio and descriptions of mouth shape and the lessons you wrote are heavy going reference style not appropriate for a learning course. I suppose the title 'Irish' could be interpreted multiple ways but most other language books on wikibooks are language learning books like the 'Teach Yourself' series. It would be better to seperate reference-style stuff into something with a title like 'Irish Reference Grammar' and/or 'Introduction to Irish Dialects', and not have it sorted into 'Unit 1/Lesson 1', etc. Complete beginners will be coming to this and seeing an essay on dialects will be of no use to them. Similarly 'Unit 3' is just lists of words, not of much use as dictionaries already exist and each Unit swings wildly from reference to easy going lessons to lists of vocab. This is why I seperated things previously into lessons and reference.

My idea is to do a bit of research on what exactly is B1, etc and then look at how other language learning books on and off wikibooks are, and then base this book off that info, introducing no more than two concepts in each lesson, using characters in realistic situations to help ease the learning and introducing vocab. I have a bit more time now to work on this but I probably won't get it finished by the time I stop. Dalta (discuss • contribs) 23:47, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * My focus will be on continuing and finishing the original Lesson plan rather than undoing Chapka's reorganisation, however if I stay at this long enough, I will undo that eventually too. - Dalta (discuss • contribs) 23:51, 8 April 2021 (UTC)