French For Football
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[edit] French For Football: About This Book
To practice your French, it is useful to have conversations with French speakers. But what can you talk about for more then a few minutes before exhausting your vocabulary and common interests? One solution is to concentrate on the vocabulary for a topic you are interested in, and look for people who share that interest.
A whole range of topics are possible but, for popularity and media coverage, football (soccer) must be the front runner. Wherever you might be in France, you can find people ready and willing to talk at length about "le foot", including the English game. It's also made easier by the large number of English words adopted and assimilated into French like "le match", "le corner", "le penalty", "tacler", "dribbler" and "lober".
Two early results of the work for this book are a collection of French football phrases and a French football glossary. Preparing these notes is an activity to which any French student and football fan can make a contribution, large or small.
The main method of vocabulary collection is reading match reports on French sports web sites, like those on the Useful Links page. Words and phrases are chosen if they often occur in match reports but are outside the basic French vocabulary generally taught in schools. The aim is for the student to be able to read match reports without needing to refer to a dictionary too often.
As we progress, the vocabulary will be classified by topic, pronunciation, grammar, difficulty and frequency to help decide where each word could fit into an overall lesson plan. There are separate pages for this linguistic work, allowing the collection and analysis of vocabulary to progress independently.
The collection of French football phrases is probably the best one aimed at the general reader now available on-line. It is in an easily edited format so if you have something new, a correction or an improvement you can start right now! Remember, all earlier versions of the text are preserved in the Wikibooks page histories, so any mistakes can be easily put right.
[edit] Information for Authors & Other Contributors
[edit] Working Notes
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- French football phrase book (phrases arranged by situations & topics, with translations)
- French football glossary (French football vocabulary - alphabetical with grammar)
- French football word list (French football vocabulary - alphabetical with examples)
- Pronunciation
- Gender
- Analysis of Vocabulary
- Introductory Material
- The National Leagues
- Miscellaneous
- Grammar
