Learn French
French, in the order the words actually turn up.
A frequency-first course through the 3,000 most useful French words, with graded stories, 615 conjugation tables, songs you already half know, and a Sound Lab that finally explains the R.
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Quick taster
3-word session
A quick mix of exercises - recognise, recall, type and build each word. Miss one and it comes back round until it sticks.
Graded reader
Un matin à la maison
Only words the course has taught
. J' . ' .
Today I go home. I'm hungry and I want to eat. My friend says there is something to eat on the table.
Tap any word for its word page
Read French from the first week.
43 graded readers built only from vocabulary the course has taught, so the famous gap between written and spoken French starts closing on page one. Tap any word you forget.
Browse French storiesGrammar that treats you like an adult.
Four of parler's six present-tense forms sound identical. French spells differences it no longer says, and the grammar guides tell you which ones those are before they cost you marks.
Explore French grammarPresent tense
parler
to speak - Regular -er verb
- je
- parle
- tu
- parles
- il / elle
- parle
- nous
- parlons
- vous
- parlez
- ils
- parlent
Four of these six sound identical - parle, parles and parlent are all just "parl". French spells a difference it no longer says.
Built for French, specifically
Not one course photocopied six times. Each language gets the tools its own difficulties actually call for.
French by the numbers
Counted from the course, not rounded up for the brochure.
- words, taught in frequency order
- 3000
- verb conjugation tables
- 615
- graded stories
- 43
- public domain song lessons
- 4
words, taught in frequency order
verb conjugation tables
graded stories
public domain song lessons
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