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What each deck asks you for, with an example. Tick the ones you want and they become My deck, ready to study together.
Where your gaps are. Every deck, every topic, every level — with how much of it you have actually learned. Click a deck to study it.
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Tried is how many cards in the row you have answered at least once — it moves on your very first card. Known counts the ones you have got to solid or better. The bar shows how well you know each row, from new on the left to known on the right. The percentage is how well you know the row overall, counting the fading — so a topic you have not touched in weeks reads lower than the day you left it, which is the point of showing it.
Practise French words in both directions, with real sentences showing each one in use, and drills for the verb endings, articles, pronouns and other small words that are hard to get right.
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Every word has a topic and, where it has one, a level, so you can study the lot or narrow it down — A1 and food, say, or everything about negation. On top of the words there are practice cards across the grammar and verb decks. Everyone using this page has the same cards, so you can compare notes with a classmate.
words come with a real sentence showing them in use, from Tatoeba, a collection of sentences translated by volunteers. Each one is picked for the meaning the card teaches: vol is both a flight and a theft, and a sentence about theft would teach you the wrong word.
They cover verbs in every tense, plus the imperative, both negations, and the two ways of saying what you are about to do and what you have just done. The forms follow the rules of French rather than being written out one by one, so the awkward pairs stay consistent: je mangeais keeps its e where nous mangions drops it, and je commençais takes a cedilla where nous commencions does not.
Nothing is hidden and nothing is scheduled. Every card in your selection comes up every time you go through the deck — a word you know well simply comes up once, while one you are still learning comes up several times.
Answer a word right and it comes round less often. Miss it and it comes straight back. About three correct answers in a row take a word down to the minimum; a single miss undoes that.
Time counts too. Words fade while you are away, and they fade fastest when you had only just learned them — so come back after a month and the words you nearly had are waiting for you, while the ones you knew cold are left alone. Fading only changes how often something comes up. It never takes a card away.
Even turns all of that off: every card once, each time through, in a shuffled order. Useful before a test.
The speaker button plays a recording of the word, so everyone hears the same French whatever machine they are on. Each clip is a few kilobytes and is kept once it has played.
The drill answers are built from the rules of French rather than being listed, so they have no recording; those are read by your own device, as is any word whose recording cannot be reached. That fallback uses whichever French voice the device has, so it will sound different — and some Windows machines have none, in which case the button says so.
le, la,
the or to is optional — so is the que
in front of a subjunctive.The example sentences come from
Your progress is saved on this device and goes nowhere else. It is kept separately in each browser you use, so your phone and your laptop count on their own, and it is cleared if you wipe the site's saved data. “Reset all progress” at the foot of the Study tab clears it on purpose.