Le Glossaire Vert Ouvert

What each deck asks you for, with an example. Tick the ones you want and they become My deck, ready to study together.

Choosing a deck

Vocabulary

Grammar and conjugation

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.

By deck

Vocabulary by topic

Vocabulary by level

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.

What's in it

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 for grammar and verbs, covering verbs in every tense.

words come with a real sentence showing them in use.

How it chooses what to show you

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 comes up once, 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 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 a card comes up. It never takes one away.

Even turns all of that off: every card once, each time through, in a shuffled order. Useful before a test.

Hearing the words

Press the speaker, or the P key, to hear the French. Turn the sound on.

What counts as correct

• Esc shows the answer if you are stuck. It counts as a miss, so the card comes back sooner.
• Capitals don't matter, and a leading le, la, the or to is optional — so is the que in front of a subjunctive.
• Where an answer offers two wordings — line / route — either one counts, and so does the whole thing.
• A clarification in brackets is optional: to save (rescue) accepts to save.
• Numbers take digits: quatorze accepts fourteen or 14.
• A plain synonym counts: une auto for une voiture.
• Accents are optional, but a missing one is pointed out so you see the right spelling. It scores half.
• Where one English word covers two French ones — until is both jusqu'à and jusque — a note under the question says which is wanted.

Credits

The example sentences come from

Your progress is saved on this device and goes nowhere else. Your phone and your laptop keep their own. “Reset all progress” at the foot of the Study tab clears it.