🇫🇷 French Scales

A minimal language learning app inspired by how pianists practice scales — drilling the most practical, high-frequency French sentences until they become muscle memory.

Concept

Before a pianist works on a piece, they run scales. This app applies the same idea to language: 30 short, realistic, daily-use French sentences grouped into pattern "scales" — drilled through speaking and listening back to yourself.

Features

• 30 practical French sentences with English translations
• 6 scale categories: Greetings, Requests, Questions, Understanding, Daily life, Reactions
• Record your voice and play it back instantly
• Progress bar across all 30 sentences
• No accounts, no backend, no dependencies — runs entirely in the browser

Scales

Scale	Focus
Greetings	Openers and closers
Requests	Polite asks you'll use every day
Questions	Where / how much / when
Understanding	What to say when you're lost
Daily life	Feelings, urgency, casual flow
Reactions	Short responses that make you sound natural

Usage

Just open index.html in any modern browser. No build step, no dependencies.

git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/french-scales.git
cd french-scales
open index.html

Or deploy instantly to GitHub Pages — see below.

Deploy to GitHub Pages

1. Push this repo to GitHub
2. Go to Settings → Pages
3. Set source to main branch, / (root)
4. Your app will be live at https://YOUR_USERNAME.github.io/french-scales

Roadmap ideas

• More sentence packs (numbers, directions, food ordering)
• Native audio for each sentence to compare against
• Waveform visualizer while recording
• Mark sentences as mastered
• Shuffle mode

License

MIT