The 10 best French Anki decks (2027)

Number 5 in our ranking. Part 1 of a 2-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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sentence deck · A1-B2 · 3,001 notes · audio on 17% · updated March 2024

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A 3,001-card list of very short French sentences ordered by difficulty, useful as a free beginner drill of common spoken phrases but thin on grammar, context and audio.

Verdict

The deck's strength is its steady build. Almost every sentence adds at most one unfamiliar word, and the 100 most common French words arrive early (99 of 100 taught). The sentences are short and conversational: "Tu étais où?", "Ça fait longtemps.", "Content de vous revoir.". The weaknesses are padding and coverage. The first few hundred cards are fragments such as "Pas vous?", "Pas ça.", "Pour qui?" and "Qui est?" (glossed "Who is?"), and 58% of the deck is single words or short phrases rather than real sentences. Only 437 of the 1,000 most common words are taught. Common verbs like mettre, demander, jouer and commencer never appear. Some cards are flawed: "Je ne comprend pas" is misconjugated, and in the sample "Comment va?" is offered as a variant of "Ça va?". Nothing explains grammar, and nothing gives a scene or speaker. Only 516 cards have audio, all of them in the Read strand, and in the sample they stop partway through Read.

Use this if you are a beginner with a basic grammar source open beside it, and you want a low-effort daily drill of high-frequency phrases to read or say aloud. It fits best as a supplement to a course. Skip it as a main resource, and skip it if you need listening practice, dialogue or any explanation of why a form is used. Advanced learners will get little from it. The material is mostly two-to-four-word utterances, and the closing cards are still only about five words long.

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Number 2 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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vocabulary list · A1-B1 · 604 notes · audio on 99% · updated October 2016

A 604-word French picture-and-audio vocabulary list that is useful as a rough noun reference but has no sentences, uneven accuracy and weak coverage of core words, so it is not worth studying as a main deck.

Verdict

Every note has an image and nearly all have a recording (599 of 604, by count; I cannot judge audio quality). The Word, English, Gender and IPA layout works for concrete nouns like pomme, jambe and fenêtre. The rest is weak. The Example Sentence field is empty in almost every sampled note, and the deck's own count finds only 18 sentences in 546 measured notes. The few sentences are not graded, for example #460 entendre: "Ne parle pas si fort, j'entends bien". Order is alphabetical by English gloss at the start (Actor, Adjective, Adult, afternoon, Airport, Animal, Apartment, Apple, April...) and then loosely thematic, not by frequency. It teaches 318 of the 1,000 most common French words and skips à, les, faire, pouvoir, vouloir, savoir and venir. Un, une, le, la and des sit at the very end (#599-603) with no English at all. Errors are frequent: #580 soldat is glossed "brown", #160 soir carries the IPA of signer ([si.ɲe]) and has no recording, #161 onze has its IPA in the Gender field, #151 lit has "Minecraft" in the IPA field, #454 lait has "m" in Recording, and #195 cuillère is tagged verb.

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vocabulary list · A2-C1 · 18,000 notes · audio on 100% · updated April 2022

Part 2 of a 2-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score.

A 4,500-word French frequency list (ranks 500 to 5,000) with complete word-level audio, built as a reference for vocabulary breadth, not a course, and worth studying only as a supplement.

Verdict

The deck does a few things well. It follows a real frequency order, and in the sample the headwords, genders, plurals and glosses look correct. The measurements show it teaches 97% of the top 1,000 and 96% of the top 2,000 words on the reference list. Every note has audio. Where an example sentence exists it is short and natural, such as "Le café est très chaud." or "Quel est le chemin vers la sortie ?". The weak points are structural. In the sample, many words have no example at all (envoyer, selon, tenir, continuer, quitter, and every closing card from engrais to homonyme). The new-word rate only falls from 38% to about 20% and then stays there, and just 41% of sentences add at most one new word, so you meet roughly one unfamiliar word in every five throughout. There is no grammar sequencing and no connected text. The back of each card stacks IPA, declension, a long Wiktionary dump and hover buttons. A few slips appear in the sample: "Il est temps pour nous de se préparer" is ungrammatical, and "C'est un canon" glossed as "It is a cannon" looks doubtful. Advert text has also leaked into the tags field. Note that the progression figures cover only part of the deck, because many notes have no readable sentence.

Use this if you already read basic French and want a large, frequency-ranked pool of words with pronunciation to recognize and recall. It suits you best if you are happy to edit templates and trim the deck. Do not use it as a first French deck or as your main way to learn the language. It teaches no grammar and gives little sentence context, so beginners will struggle, and anyone who wants sentences or dialogue should look elsewhere. Importing it also brings in four copies of the same 4,500 words (French to English and English to French, each with Parisian and Canadian audio), and you will want only one or two of them. That is the real size of the job, not 18,000 distinct items.

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conjugation drill · A2-C1 · 6,531 notes · audio on 100% · updated July 2021

A large, accurate French conjugation drill (about 70 verbs, 16 tenses, type-in answers) that is worth studying only as a supplement, because it has no sentences or explanations.

Verdict

The conjugated forms in the sample are correct, including rare ones like "que nous eussions voulu" and "il eut vaincu". The task is clean: an English infinitive, a pronoun with a blank, and a mood/tense label, with a type-in box that checks your answer. The four subdecks run from common tenses (présent, passé composé, futur simple, imparfait) to literary ones (passé antérieur, subjonctif imparfait), which is a sensible way to ration the difficulty. The weak side is that nothing here teaches French. Every card is a bare form like "tu commençais" or "elles sont", with no sentence, no explanation of why a form looks the way it does, and no contrast between tenses. Verb order after être looks alphabetical rather than frequency-driven, so rare verbs such as dissoudre and coudre sit among basics like voir and dire. Some opening cards are also interleaved, with venir and voir appearing in the middle of the être run. The spot-checked glosses in other languages have slips: Spanish "estar" for être, an untranslated "devenir" in the Italian field, "mo" for mourir in Swedish, and "wachteen" in Dutch.

Use it if you already know what the tenses mean and want repetition on the forms, especially irregular verbs and the passé composé auxiliary choice ("es sorti", "est sortie"). It is a good fit for a learner working through French grammar elsewhere who needs spelling and ending drill. Skip it if you want to learn vocabulary, hear French in use, or understand when to use each tense. Most of its 6,531 cards are the same few verbs repeated across persons and tenses, so it adds almost no new words and cannot replace a course or a sentence deck.

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Number 4 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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vocabulary list · B1-C1 · 7,501 notes · no audio · updated March 2019

Mes Études is a 7,501-card English-to-French vocabulary list with broad coverage of common French and usable example sentences, but it has no audio, no images, no ordering logic and no grammar teaching, so it works only as a supplementary word bank.

Verdict

The strength is breadth and sentence quality. In the file, 99% of the 1,000 most common French words and 96% of the top 2,000 are taught. Most cards beyond the first few hundred carry a short, natural example, often with a second sense: "Le guépard est l'animal qui court le plus vite", "L'altitude me donne le vertige". The weaknesses are order and polish. The opening cards are rare specialist items: "White noise" with a definition-style sentence about "processus stochastique", then "Cartwheel", "Pip, seed", "Keyhole". Basics such as "Sometimes", "Hair" and "Slow" appear later (cards #338, #506, #537) with no example at all. Only 19% of sentence notes in the first tenth add one new word or fewer, versus 77% in the last tenth. The cards also have typos and slips in the French: "réçu", "précedent", "à I'heure", "La moto est équipé", "se met faire les cent pas", and an unclosed bracket on "Plaqué(e) or". The Back field mixes headword, gender, gloss, usage note and one or more long examples into one string, and every card runs English to French only. Some very common spoken words are missing (ouais, salut, bonsoir, super), and a few cards assume Portuguese ("as in Portuguese 'prego'").

This deck suits an intermediate learner who already reads French and wants a large bank of precise vocabulary: concrete nouns, idioms, colloquial terms, and everyday verbs with example sentences. It fits someone who can tolerate dense, uneven cards and will check the occasional typo. Do not use it as a first deck or as your main course. The stated B1-C1 level does not match the deck's own content. It mixes A1-level words with obscure terms, so a true beginner will hit unusable cards at once, while an advanced learner will wade through basics. It also gives you nothing for listening, pronunciation, or grammar, and nothing that builds comprehension in a planned sequence.

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vocabulary list · A1-B2 · 1,029 notes · audio on 100% · updated June 2024

A frequency-ordered French word list with an example sentence and audio on every card, worth studying as a beginner-to-intermediate vocabulary builder if you correct its typos as you go.

Verdict

The deck's strongest point is the word order. In the measurements all 100 of the top-100 French words appear early, and 87% of the new words in the first tenth come from the top 1,000, falling to 24% by the last tenth. Every note has word audio and sentence audio, and the cards are short: the opening sentences like "Je veux un hamburger." and "Tu danses bien." are easy to take in. The weak points are the sentences and the checking. Only about 60-70% of sentences in any stretch add at most one new word, and later cards like "Le musée a récemment modernisé son système de sécurité." bring in four unknown words around the headword. The sample also contains errors on cards a beginner meets early: "Je ne suis pas rich." (English word in the French), "raisonable", "mirroir", "Apparement", "pas si il est là", "The fruit are green!", and "rapide" translated as "Vast". Some meanings drift from the sentence, such as "fille" glossed "daughter" over "petite fille" and "monter" glossed "to mount" over "go up the hill". It also teaches almost no grammar, and it does not reach the full B2 range the label claims.

Use it if you already have a way to learn grammar and want a frequency-ordered vocabulary pass with audio, and you are willing to correct cards as you meet them. It suits you best if you can read French sentences and spot a typo when one looks wrong. Skip it if you are a true beginner who would absorb the errors as correct French, or if you want a course that explains structures, builds dialogue, or has you produce French rather than recognize it. The '1K' name undersells the list, which runs to about 1,500 ranks, but the page's claim that you will "understand grammar in context" overstates what these standalone sentences do.

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Number 3 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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vocabulary list · unclear · 501 notes · audio on 100% · updated August 2017

An alphabetical list of 501 French infinitives with audio and English glosses, useful as a verb reference but weak as something to study from the first card.

Verdict

The deck does two things well. The cards are clean (infinitive plus audio on the front, English gloss on the back), and audio is present on 500 of 501 notes. The French and English in the sample are correct. The weaknesses are structural. The order is alphabetical, so the first 30 cards put abasourdir, absoudre, acclamer and abolir next to aimer, aller and accepter. The measurements agree: rare verbs such as médire (rank 18,450) and mirer (rank 13,587) sit in the middle of the deck, and only 236 of the 1,000 most common French words are taught. There are no sentences, so you never see a verb in a clause, a tense or with a preposition. The glosses often stack several senses, such as "to accord, to grant, to reconcile, to admit", with nothing to show which one you will meet most. The asterisk for irregular verbs is also inconsistent: croître, cueillir and recueillir carry one, but accroître, accueillir and absoudre, which are irregular too, do not.

Use it if you already read some French and want a checklist of verb infinitives to recognize, with audio for pronunciation. Treat it as a supplement to a course or a frequency-based deck. Do not use it as your first or main deck. A beginner will spend the opening weeks on verbs they will rarely meet, with no grammar or context to help them remember. Anyone who wants to produce French, or to build comprehension from sentences, will need other material.

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vocabulary list · A1-A2 · 491 notes · audio on 100% · updated June 2015

A 491-card picture-to-word deck of mostly concrete nouns with audio on every card; useful as a visual vocabulary supplement for beginners, but it is not a course and the order is arbitrary.

Verdict

The deck does one thing cleanly: you see a picture, try to recall the French word, then flip to the spelled word and a recording. All 491 notes have an image and audio, there is one card per note, and the sampled spellings are correct, including accents and ligatures (œufs, sœur, chaîne, hache). The weaknesses are in the material. There are no sentences (1 of 480 measured notes has four or more words), and nothing is translated, so meaning rests entirely on the picture. The order has no logic you can use. Opening cards run plante, ombre, escalier, corps, danser, neige, and later stretches jump from numbers 13-20 to fleur and lettre, or from bathroom items to a mop (balai à franges). Frequency coverage is thin: 18% of the 1,000 most common French words are taught, none of the top function words (je, être-type verbs like avoir, faire, aller, pouvoir) appear, and rare items such as imprimante, kiwi, embrayage, accotement and cigogne arrive with the same weight as everyday words.

Use this if you are an A1-A2 learner who already follows a course or grammar book and wants a picture-based noun bank to build listening and recall for objects, food, family, colors and household items. Skip it if you want a first deck to carry you toward reading or speaking: you will not learn how words combine, which words matter most, or how verbs and articles behave. Treat it as a supplement and expect to be picky about which cards you keep.

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vocabulary list · A1-C1 · 5,000 notes · no audio · updated December 2015

A clean, accurate 5,000-word French frequency list with bare English glosses and no sentences, audio or grammar, so it works as a vocabulary checklist but not as a course.

Verdict

The deck's strength is its ordering and its word choices. Cards run in strict rank order, and in the measurements it covers 96% of the 1,000 most common words on the Lexique list and 94% of the top 2,000. The sampled headwords, glosses and gender codes look correct. The weakness is the card itself: every note is one word, such as "nourrir: to feed, nourish", with no example, no audio and no image, and Part of Speech and Rank never appear on the card. Glosses also lump several senses together, as in "piquer: to sting, bite, prick, be hot; to steal". The opening has gaps too: the most common words the deck never teaches include la, les, une, des, du and ça. The back half drifts into news and politics vocabulary ("mondialisation", "compétitivité", "réformiste", "embargo"), and by the last tenth over half the new words fall outside the 5,000 most common on the Lexique list.

Use this as a supplement if you already study French from a textbook, a course or real reading, and you want a ranked list to check your vocabulary against or to memorize for recognition. It suits you if you are willing to add your own sentences or audio. Do not use it as your main resource if you are a beginner, or if you want to speak, listen or learn grammar. You would be memorizing isolated glosses with nothing that shows how the words are used, and the first 500 cards are dominated by function words that are hard to learn without context.

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vocabulary list · A1-B2 · 1,979 notes · audio on 100% · updated May 2018

A 1,979-note French word list built from Duolingo's skill order, with audio on every card but almost no sentences and unreliable helper fields, so it works as a vocabulary supplement and not as a course.

Verdict

The deck's strengths are consistent audio (every note has a sound file, 1,978 distinct), clean two-way cards (Read and Speak), and decent coverage of common words: 74% of the top 1,000 and 93 of the top 100. Gender and word-type labels are on most noun and verb cards, for example 'la robe / N / f'. The weaknesses are structural. 96% of notes are single words or short phrases, so you never see a word used in a sentence, and the only sentences are late idioms such as 'Qui va à la chasse, perd sa place.' glossed as 'Move your feet, lose your seat.' The order follows Duolingo topics, not frequency: the opening is dress, apple, orange and cat, while 'tu', 'très', 'voir', 'ici' and 'maintenant' are never taught. The sample also contains real errors. SynonymAid shows 'viver' (Portuguese), 'cefran', 'freiner' on 'la pause', and 'partir' on 'laisser'. 'le fond' is glossed 'fund' and 'coûter un bras' as 'to cost and arm and a leg'. Accents are often missing, as in 'egal' and 's'ecouler'. Note also that #1 is a B2-ish adverb ('désormais') placed ahead of the Basics lessons.

Use it if you already study French from another source and want a large, audio-backed word bank with article and gender attached, especially if you can filter by lesson tag as the description suggests. Do not use it as a first-contact course, for learning grammar, or if you want sentence-level reading practice. Expect to ignore the SynonymAid hint on the Speak card, because it shows as a 'not X' warning and is sometimes wrong. The late tenth also drifts into rare words such as 'alunissage', 'assomption' and 'postérieurement', which you may want to suspend.

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Number 9 in our ranking. Part 1 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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conjugation drill · A1-C1 · 2,792 notes · no audio · updated January 2024

A 2,792-card French conjugation drill covering 54 verbs in every tense, worth studying if you want sustained conjugation practice and accept that it teaches no real vocabulary, audio or compound tenses.

Verdict

The deck does its one job well. Each card is a short sentence with the verb blanked, the infinitive as a hint, and a symbol for the tense, such as "⇠ Pendant ces années là, ⇠ / tu [étais] (en avance au bureau)". Every verb runs through the same block of tenses and persons, so you meet the whole paradigm of a verb in a fixed order. In the sample, 95% of sentences add one new word at most and the conjugated forms are correct, including rare ones like "cousîmes" and "vainquisse". Several things hold it back. It has no audio and no images. The translation slot holds only link labels, not an English sentence. Sentences are invented drill frames with no story behind them. The 54 verbs were chosen to cover conjugation patterns, not frequency, so the deck teaches 33% of the top 1,000 French words and none of qui, mais, aimer, penser or comprendre. Some frames are wrong or odd. Imperative cards open with a Spanish "¡" ("¡ [crains] (la vengeance de ton collègue) !"). "Il est probable que je prenne" uses the subjunctive where French takes the indicative. A few Sentence_Translation fields show broken markup, for example "jeûne.">english" on the rompre cards. Easy and rare tenses are mixed within each verb block, so difficulty does not build up.

Use it if you already have some French, or are studying alongside a course, and want heavy repetition of verb forms with a fixed cue system. It works best if you filter by tag, suspend the literary tenses, and treat the sentences as carriers for the forms, not as French to learn from. Do not use it as a first French deck or for vocabulary, listening or reading. It does not teach what you will need to say, and its claim that you can use it before studying French is optimistic: you get forms without meanings, since no English sentences are given.

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dialogue-based course · A1-B2 · 2,617 notes · audio on 43% · updated November 2013

A card-by-card copy of Assimil's French course, with sound on 43% of notes, but it opens at lesson 17 and carries many typos and loose translations, so it is worth studying only if you already know the early lessons and will proofread as you go.

Verdict

Most of the deck is natural, everyday French in single-step sentences: 75% of sentences add at most one new word, and the new-word rate falls from 23.6% in the first tenth to a steady 4-10% later. It also covers the common core well, teaching all of the top 100 words and 91% of ranks 101-500. The problems are order and accuracy. The first card you meet, #1, is a four-sentence dialogue chunk with 14 new words ('...Des vacances ? Ne me faites pas rire. Nous n'avons pas assez d'argent. Et vous ?'), and it comes from lesson 17. Lessons 1-9 show up around position 2,341 and later (#2341 'Voilà la Seine, et voici le pont' is tagged première_leçon). Errors recur in the sample: 'beacoup', 'recontrer', 'jullet', 'hutième', and a French line that is not grammatical ('Je souhaite vous rencontrer afin de son project'). Some translations do not match the French: 'Nous cultivons nos légumes' is glossed 'We used to grow', and 'nous pensons' is glossed 'I think'. Explanations are sparse and appear only on a few cards, such as the que/qui note on #268. Audio is missing from 57% of notes.

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exam word list · A1-B1 · 1,362 notes · no audio · updated December 2023

A faithful AQA GCSE French word list of 1,362 bare word cards, useful as a recognition checklist for the exam but weak as a way to learn French.

Verdict

The deck does one thing well: it follows the AQA specification, so the content matches the exam. Translations in the sample are almost all correct, as in 'chaleur' / 'heat', 'loyer le' / 'rent' and 'harceler' / 'to bully, harass'. The format is the weakness. 90% of notes are single words or short phrases, with no example sentences, no audio and no images, so nothing shows how a word behaves in French. The order follows spec sections rather than difficulty. 'peu/moins/le moins' is card 1, and 'sensass', 'barbant', 'nuageux', 'orageux', 'toussaint' and 'pâques' arrive early, while common words such as tu, on, dans, elle, nous, très, merci and oui never appear. The deck covers 54% of the top 1,000 French words. Some cards are awkward: 'ordinateur tablette l' (m)' / 'tablet' looks garbled, and fronts like 'bon/meilleur/le meilleur' pack several items into one answer you cannot grade cleanly. Nouns put the article after the word ('réseau social le'), and the gender notation varies.

Use this if you are a GCSE student who already has some French from class and wants to check that you recognize the spec's vocabulary, sorted by theme and by Foundation or Higher tier. It works as a supplement, not as a course. Do not use it as a first French deck, to learn to produce sentences, or to build listening or pronunciation. Learners aiming at general fluency will hit large gaps in basic function words and will get none of the grammar in context.

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Number 10 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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phrase book · A1-A2 · 32 notes · no audio · updated March 2016

A 32-card phrase book of things a beginner says to keep a conversation going; it is worth a short pass as a survival supplement but not as a course.

Verdict

The phrases are the ones you would actually use with a native speaker: "Je ne parle qu'un peu le français", "Peux-tu m'expliquer en français/anglais?", "Pouvez-vous répéter s'il vous plaît ?", "Ça n'a aucun sens." Most of the French is natural and fits A1-A2. The weak points are accuracy and structure. In the sample, #6 is cut off ("Qu'est-ce que ça veut di"), #31 has the wrong question form ("Qu'est qui se passe?" for "Qu'est-ce qui se passe?"), #9 drops a cedilla ("francais"), and #26 ends in a comma. Only 24% of the sentences add one new word or fewer, and the new-word rate stays at 23-39% after the opening, so later cards do not build on earlier ones. The deck covers about 7% of the 1,000 most common French words, leaves out basics such as et, les, une, faire, aller and oui, and has no audio, no images and no grammar explanation.

Use it if you are starting French, plan to talk to people soon, and want a ready set of lines for saying your level, asking for repetition, and asking what something means. It is short enough to learn in a few days. Do not use it as your main vocabulary or grammar source. It also mixes tu and vous ("Peux-tu" in most cards, "Pouvez-vous" in #23) without telling you which to use when, and it does not teach pronunciation.

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mixed · B2-C1 · 788 notes · no audio · updated June 2016

A 788-note grammar-review deck that follows an older textbook, useful as a checklist for someone who already knows French but too error-prone and thinly exemplified to study from cold.

Verdict

The deck's strength is that its cards cluster by topic and ask the right questions for a B2-C1 reviewer. In the sample, the impersonal-expression cards ("Il est certain", "Il est clair", "Il est évident" each ask indicative or subjunctive), the preposition-before-infinitive verbs ("décider", "finir", "réussir") and the "take" and "escape" verb groups all focus on one contrast at a time. Where there is an example, it is clean textbook French, such as "Au bout de quelques semaines j'en ai eu assez" and "Le livre dont vous parlez est connu". The weaknesses are real, though. Many cards are bare drills with no sentence at all, for instance "enseigner — Which preposition connects it to infinitive? — Requires à before an infinitive". The sample also shows slips in the French itself: "Français regardait sa montre" where a name was meant, "devant le classe", "La criminel", "tous le soirs", and lowercase "le cambodge". There are typos throughout the English notes as well. The opening has no ramp-up and jumps between unrelated topics ("instead of", "avant que", "up the street", "year/an"). The material is also dated: it mentions francs and Zaïre, and the author says it comes from a 1993 book. The measurements agree with this: no audio, no images, and 20% of notes have an empty field.

Use this if you already read and write French at roughly B2, want a drill-and-check pass over prepositions, moods and tricky English-to-French mismatches, and can spot a typo when you see one. It works best next to the source book (French for Oral and Written Review) or a current grammar reference, which the author recommends. Skip it if you want to learn grammar from scratch, expect a reliable answer key, or want the sound and context of real French. The cards are mostly English-prompted recall, so they do little for listening, reading speed, or vocabulary growth. Your own cards would have to supply those, since the material, not the file format, is what is missing.

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vocabulary list · B1-C1 · 438 notes · no audio · updated August 2022

A picture-driven French-to-French vocabulary list of concrete nouns and some verbs, useful as a supplement for upper-intermediate readers but not a path to fluency.

Verdict

The deck's best feature is its card pair: an image-plus-word recognition card, and a reverse card that shows a French dictionary definition and has you type the term. Nearly every note has an image (433 of 438), and the sampled genders, articles and definitions look reliable. The weaknesses are in the material. The order is by topic, not difficulty or frequency. It opens with niche items such as une chorale, un archet, un clairon and un hautbois, and later moves through rare terms like péricarpe, échinoderme and gerfaut. Many of the most common French words are never taught: parler, aimer, penser, donner, merci, maintenant. The deck covers 57% of the top 1,000 words. Definitions are often harder than the word, as in the hautbois entry ("Instrument à air, à anche double... pavillon peu évasé"). Many notes have no example sentence at all (gamme, harmonica, hautbois, nid, clou), others have only a bare phrase ("un souvenir impérissable"), and some sentences look scraped from the web ("Le produit nettoie parfaitement inox, aluminium, laiton chromé, laminés plastiques."). There is no audio and no grammar teaching.

Use it if you already read French comfortably, have a solid core vocabulary, and want to fill gaps in concrete everyday and technical nouns with images and monolingual definitions. Skip it if you are a true B1 learner who needs the common words first, if you want to hear or speak the language, or if you want sentences and grammar to build on. Treat it as a side deck next to a frequency-based or course-based deck, not as your main one.

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Number 6 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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vocabulary list · A1-C1 · 10,002 notes · audio on 100% · updated June 2020

A large, audio-backed French frequency list with example sentences that is worth using for vocabulary building once you remove its duplicated second half, but it does not teach grammar or connected French.

Verdict

The deck's strength is vocabulary coverage. It teaches 999 of the top 1,000 and 1,960 of the top 2,000 words on the reference list. Nearly every note has a word recording plus a sentence recording, and the sample showed no wrong translations or genders. The sentences are mostly short, natural subtitle-style lines such as 'tout va bien maintenant' and 'le prêtre lève alors les bras au ciel', and by the middle of the deck about 80% of them add at most one new word. The weaknesses are structural. The opening is a cold start: note 1 ('elle lui prit la main', in the passé simple) has five new words out of five, and only 30% of the first 500 sentences pass the one-new-word test. The ranking is also scrambled. The deck begins at rank 43, and the sampled ranks 28 to 42 sit at the very end. The 5,000 distinct headwords are then repeated as a second block (note 5002 is rank 43 'prendre' again), so you face 20,004 cards for about 5,000 words. Some sentences are stiffer or harder than the word they illustrate, for example 'vous mettriez son conservatisme en parallèle avec sa ferveur catholique?'. Grammar is not taught, and the sentences are unrelated to one another.

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phrase book · A1-A2 · 295 notes · audio on 100% · updated January 2013

A 295-card, audio-backed French travel phrase deck taken from a podcast, but with real errors in the French, no teaching order and thin vocabulary coverage; study it only with a checker beside you.

Verdict

What works: every card has a recording, and most cards are short, useful survival phrases for hotel, café, weather and ailments, such as "J'ai mal à la tête", "Il fait trop chaud dans la chambre" and "Un verre de vin rouge, s'il vous plaît". Frames repeat (il fait / il pleut, j'ai mal à, un sandwich au), so later sentences mostly reuse known words; the new-word rate in sentences falls to about 12% by the middle and under 7% at the end. What doesn't: the sample has a number of wrong French answers that you would memorize, for example "Donc, je pense que c'est ouvrir", "Je suis en train dans enregistre un podcast", "ce que en peut faire", "Quelque renseignements", "Les vacances l'hiver" and "de neuf heure". The order is jumbled (card 2 is a six-new-word sentence, and 'piéton' appears at card 21), and the deck teaches only 207 of the 1,000 most common French words. Common basics such as dire, savoir, oui and parler never appear.

Use it as a supplement if you already follow the Coffee Break French podcast, or as a source of listening practice for tourist phrases, and only if you will check each French answer against the podcast or a reliable reference. Skip it as a first or main deck: you would build a narrow travel vocabulary, pick up errors, and get no grammar path or reading context. This judgment rests on a sample of about 90 of the 295 cards, and I could not hear any audio, so recording quality is untested.

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sentence deck · A2-C1 · 5,928 notes · audio on 100% · updated August 2022

A large, fully voiced set of 5,928 Tatoeba sentences with a sound frequency-driven vocabulary base, but with no grammar scaffolding and an unfriendly first few hundred cards, so it is worth studying only as a supplement for learners who already have the basics.

Verdict

What it does well: after a heavy opening tenth, the new-word load is gentle. By part 5, 98% of sentences add at most one new word, and the new-word rate stays between 1.2% and 2.7% to the end. The top 100 French words are all taught, and 930 of the top 1,000 are covered. Every note has audio, and the two card directions (listen, then English to French) are clear. What it does badly: the sentences are raw Tatoeba, and nothing explains them. The first 30 cards already include passé simple ('Il dut partager une chambre', 'fut attrapé'), a subjunctive ('que vous puissiez' later on), 'coûte que coûte', and meta-sentences about Tatoeba itself (#7, #4454). Card 1 is 'Veuillez garder ce fait en votre esprit', with 7 of 7 words new, and card 2 has 10 of 10 new. Typos appear in the sample, such as 'je suis me suis endormi' (#2967), 'a louer' for 'à louer' (#4453) and 'tel que' for 'tels que' (#5916). Conversational words are missing: 'peut-être', 'est-ce que', 'salut', 'ouais' and 'surtout' are never used, and only 79% of the top 2,000 words are covered. The deck also has no subdecks, lessons or dialogue.

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vocabulary list · A1-C1 · 4,999 notes · audio on 100% · updated November 2015

A 4,999-card French frequency vocabulary deck with audio and a sentence on every card, but its default order starts at rank 4,313, so you need to reposition it before you begin.

Verdict

The deck's strength is coverage: it teaches 999 of the 1,000 most common French words and 1,959 of the top 2,000. Every card has an example sentence with a translation, IPA, and audio on 4,994 of 4,999 notes. Within each level the words run in frequency order, and 70% of sentences add at most one new word. The problems are order and depth. Opened as shipped, the first card is révolter (rank 4,313) with 'ils se révolteront avec colère, une colère implacable', and rank 1 (une fois) only turns up around card 735. There is almost no grammar teaching; the Conjugation field is empty on most notes. Sentences come from subtitles and news text, so some are much harder than the word they illustrate, such as 'il y a la substitution du dialogue homme/machine au dialogue homme/femme'. The back of the card stacks about ten fields with the English gloss buried in the middle. Rare words such as djihad, existentialisme and orthophonie appear well before the learner has a base to support them, and there are small slips such as stray spacing and leftover German notes ('Nachteil', 'Offenheit').

Use this if you are a high-beginner to intermediate learner who wants to build a core vocabulary of a few thousand words, you are comfortable learning from isolated sentences, and you will repositon the deck by level first. It is also a reasonable reference set for someone who already knows the grammar. Skip it if you are a true beginner who wants a guided course, if you need grammar explained, or if you want vocabulary grouped by theme or situation. Even after reordering, expect the later levels to be heavy on abstract news vocabulary rather than everyday speech.

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vocabulary list · A1-B2 · 1,000 notes · no audio · updated August 2026

A 1,000-word sample of a frequency dictionary with a real example sentence and translation on every card: a reasonable high-frequency vocabulary core, but not a course.

Verdict

The word order is the deck's strength. Against an independent frequency list, all of the top 100 French words are taught and they arrive early, and 91% of ranks 101-500 are covered. Every note has a short sentence (about 7 words) with an English translation, which beats bare word pairs. The weakness is that the sentences are unadapted corpus lines, so they bring in other unknown words. Only 44% add at most one new word. Card 19 teaches "plus" with "il est considérablement plus jeune que moi", which brings in a word ranked around 10,000. Card 509 uses "s'enfonce dans la précarité", and card 447 uses "existentialisme". Card 1 teaches "le" with "vive la politique, vive l'amour", where all 4 words are new. Slips in the sample include card 507, where "sans précipitation" is translated as "immediately", and card 998, which leaves "gastronomie" in the English line. Glosses are cut off on cards 185 ("from, as soon") and 415 ("to finish, end,"). The deck has no audio, no images and no grammar sequencing. As a 1,000-note sample it also misses everyday words such as visage, envie, soleil and boire, and it never teaches "est-ce que" or "parce que".

Use it if you already have the basics from a course or textbook and want to build a core reading vocabulary in frequency order. You need to be comfortable meeting sentences with several words you don't know yet, and to learn pronunciation and grammar elsewhere. Skip it if you are a complete beginner who needs sentences you can mostly understand. Skip it too if you want grammar taught in sequence, listening practice, or a story or topic structure to hang the words on.

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vocabulary list · C1-C2 · 3,399 notes · no audio · updated March 2021

A 3,399-card list of C1-C2 French newspaper and literary vocabulary that is useful as a word bank, but unordered, mostly context-free, and carrying errors you would have to catch yourself.

Verdict

The deck's strength is its selection: advanced words and idioms such as "à point nommé", "trier sur le volet", "être en proie à" and "si tant est que (+ subjonctif)" are real reading vocabulary at this level. Each card teaches one item, which keeps the study step small. The weaknesses are in what surrounds the words. In the file, 88% of notes are single words or short phrases with a bare English gloss, and only about 12% carry a French example, such as "Les remords l'ont tenaillée jusqu'à la fin de sa vie." There is no audio and no images. The order shows no difficulty principle: the share of top-1,000 words among new items sits between 8% and 18% in every tenth, and very rare items like "pérenniser" (card 234) and "caviarder" appear in the first few hundred cards. The sample also has errors in the glosses and one article you would memorize: "une démarcheur", "formidible", "dissapear", "burgandy", "Endevour". There are also misleading translations: "fortuit" glossed "lucky", "prendre la relève" glossed "take the helm", and "pare-feu" glossed "fire screen" for a reader who most likely meets it as a computer firewall.

Use it if you already read French comfortably, meet unfamiliar words in newspapers or novels, and want a pool of advanced vocabulary to pick through while checking doubtful glosses against a dictionary. Skip it if you are below roughly B2, if you want words taught through sentences or themes, or if you need audio, grammar support or a trustworthy answer key. The deck leaves out many basic words, such as "tu", "mais", "jamais" and "toujours", which fits its stated level but means it cannot be your main course.

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vocabulary list · A1-B1 · 1,367 notes · no audio · updated January 2013

A 1,367-card French-to-English word list that is organized by topic, not frequency, with no sentences, audio or images and several visible errors; it is not worth studying as a main deck.

Verdict

The deck's strength is its topical grouping and its short, clean glosses. Numbers, emotions, restaurant terms, school levels and adverbs sit together, and most cards in the sample are a plain headword with a one- or two-word English answer, such as 'le miroir' / 'mirror'. Gender markers like (m) and (f) help on many nouns. The weaknesses are material. It teaches only 459 of the 1,000 most common French words, and it never teaches des, qui, on, pour, mais, si, ou, quand or pourquoi, which are among the 100 most common words. Meanwhile it spends cards on rare items like 'unième', 'millième', 'varicelle', 'sparadrap' and 'vinaigrette'. Opening with 'acheter' followed by 22 number cards is also an odd start. Only 11% of notes are sentences, and the few that exist are bare drills like 'Elle est avocate.' The sample also shows errors: 'ills (m)' for 'ils', 'la haïne' for 'la haine', garbled accents ('les ?motions', 'l'?cole'), a stray asterisk in '*hors-d'œuvres', 'Emotions' and 'School' capitalized as if they were headings, 'le placard' glossed as 'linen closet', and a spam card (#1365) in Persian pointing to a website. Two stray cards, 'je' and 'tu', sit at the very end, and 'je' is among the most basic words in French.

Use it only as a supplementary topic vocabulary list, for example if you have a course or a frequency-based deck and want extra nouns for food, school, family or countries. Do not use it if you are a beginner who needs the most useful words first, if you want to learn grammar or how words work in sentences, or if you want to hear French. Treat the 'first 1300 words any student needs' claim on the shared page with caution, since the frequency data does not support it.

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Number 7 in our ranking. Part 2 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.

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sentence deck · A2-B2 · 181,816 notes · no audio · updated June 2021

Part 3 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score.

A very large, well-paced bank of short spoken-French sentences with no audio, no context and no grammar support, worth studying only if you bring your own audio and grammar.

Verdict

The sequencing is the strength. In the measured curve, sentences grow from 1.9 words in the first tenth to 10.3 in the last, while the new-word rate inside sentences drops to about 2% by part 2 and stays under 1%. Nearly every sentence adds at most one new word. Frequency coverage is strong: 978 of the top 1,000 French words are taught, and most arrive early. Typical cards are natural and usable, such as "Je dois absolument lui parler." / "I absolutely must speak to him." The weaknesses are all about what surrounds the sentences. There are no sound files at all, so you never hear the French. The cards are isolated lines with no source, topic or story, and nothing teaches grammar, so tenses and clause types simply appear. The sample also shows real errors in the longer lines: "Il se vont vers un point de débarquement", "nous pourrons allez au foot", and "Tu pourrais avoir l'air contente de me voir" translated as "You could look good to see me". The first 30 cards are mostly fragments ("Hier soir.", "Beau boulot.", "Merci, chef."), and some cards stack two variants on separate lines.

Use this deck if you already read some French, from roughly A2 up, and want a long run of graded exposure to conversational sentences. It suits someone who will add audio and learn grammar elsewhere. Do not use it as a first course, or if you want to hear native speech, learn from connected material, or trust every card without checking. Also note that 80% of the notes repeat a sentence that appears elsewhere. The Read and Speak subdecks hold the same material in two directions, so you can choose one direction instead of doing both. The Speak cards show one English prompt that can have several French answers ("Nice work." could be "Beau travail" or "Beau boulot"), which makes self-checking fuzzy.

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sentence deck · A2-C1 · 61,601 notes · no audio · updated May 2016

Part 3 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score.

A 61,601-card Tatoeba-style French sentence dump that covers common vocabulary well but has no grammar order, no context and no audio, so it only suits learners who already read French.

Verdict

The deck's strength is vocabulary coverage. It teaches 1,000 of the top 1,000 and 1,999 of the top 2,000 words on the frequency list, mostly early, and after the first tenth about 97% of sentences add at most one new word. Most sampled pairs are natural French with idiomatic English, such as "Le sucre se dissout dans l'eau." / "Sugar dissolves in water." The weaknesses are real, though. The opening is a cold start: card #6 has 14 first-seen words out of 19, and the first notes mix passé simple ("Il tint sa promesse et aida ses frères."), subjunctive and idioms with no visible order. Cards #2 and #3 are the same sentence in masculine and feminine. Corpus filler and site chatter turn up in the sample: "Dans Tatoeba, toutes les langues sont égales," a Toki Pona sentence at #15409, and game save-file text at #35170. There are also slips: "I forgot to sent her an email," "It you eat at that hour," "sur son age," and loose glosses such as "Nous ne goûtons pas la pluie" / "We don't like the rain." This is a sample of about 90 cards, so I can't say how often these slips occur across the whole deck. Rare words appear early too, such as espéranto at 0% of the deck.

Use it if you already read French at roughly B1 or above, want a large pool of sentences to mine for vocabulary and patterns, and will skip odd cards without guilt. Do not use it as a first course. It has no grammar scaffolding, no recurring situations, no level marking and no sound, and its early sentences are not the simplest ones. If you need pronunciation, a guided path or reliably clean translations, look elsewhere or plan to do real editing.

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sentence deck · A2-B2 · 60,034 notes · no audio · updated May 2016

Part 2 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score.

A 60,034-card Tatoeba-style French-to-English sentence bank with a smooth vocabulary curve, but no grammar sequencing, no audio, and scattered translation errors, so it works as a reading-recognition supplement rather than a course.

Verdict

The measured curve is the deck's strength: the new-word rate falls from 2.9% to 0.6% by part 2 and stays between 0.4% and 0.9%, so nearly every card after the opening adds at most one new word. It covers 977 of the top 1,000 and 1,813 of the top 2,000 French lemmas, and most sampled sentences are short, natural, and match their translations: 'Essayons encore une fois.' / 'Let's try again.' and 'Ma montre retarde de cinq minutes.' / 'My watch is five minutes slow.' The weaknesses are in the material. Order is arbitrary after the first tenth. The first cards pile up grammar: #4 is a 14-word conditional ('Si tu n'avais pas suivi les conseils du docteur...') with 10 words first seen, and #1 to #3 are three near-identical variants of 'Pourquoi ne me parlez-vous pas'. Some pairs do not match: #12 'Il a couru en face de moi.' is translated 'He walked ahead of me.', #13 'Il a suivi mon conseil.' is translated 'He yielded to my advice.', and #60026 'fusillade' is translated 'flame war'. #5975 is ungrammatical ('Est-ce ce que vous pensez que je veuille entendre ?'). Near-duplicates recur: #15014 to #15016 are the same sentence in tu, vous and vous-plural forms. Literary passé simple ('Il devint', 'Ils partirent en voyage') sits beside everyday speech with no label. There are no audio files, no images, and no grammar notes. Rare vocabulary also grows later: 28% of new words in the last tenth rank past 5,000.

Use this if you already read some French (roughly A2 and up), want a large pool of single sentences to build recognition, and can skip or delete a bad card without worry. It suits you if you will add your own audio and treat the English as a rough gloss. Do not use it as a first-course deck, or if you need graded grammar, spoken-French listening practice, or translations you can trust without checking. Learners who want connected dialogue or a defined path to A2, B1 and beyond will find none here.

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vocabulary list · A1-A2 · 2,500 notes · audio on 100% · updated October 2019

Numbers drill.

A single-purpose listening drill that pairs French spoken numbers from 0 to 2499 with their numerals and spelling; worth using for that one skill, and nothing more.

Verdict

The content is accurate and does what the shared-deck page promises. In the sample every numeral matches its spelling, including the hard cases: 1972 is "mille neuf cent soixante-douze", 731 is "sept cent trente et un", and 580 is "cinq cent quatre-vingts". All 2,500 notes carry audio, and the two templates give you both directions (hear it and produce the numeral, or see the numeral and recall the French). The weaknesses are structural. The notes are shuffled, so the first card is 2364 ("deux mille trois cent soixante-quatre", five new words at once) and "zéro" is the 2,499th note. There are no sentences, no explanation of how the system works, and no context beyond the numbers themselves. The whole deck teaches 97 distinct words, so it is a drill, not a course.

Use it if you can already count in French and want volume of listening practice on the parts that trip up learners: the 70s and 90s, the hundreds, and year-like numbers such as 1494 and 1996. Do not use it as a first introduction to French numbers, as a general vocabulary deck, or as your main resource. The audio is machine-generated according to the shared-deck description, which I cannot judge by ear, so play a few cards before committing to thousands of reviews.

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minimal pairs listening drill · A1-B2 · 16,598 notes · audio on 100% · updated October 2019

Pronunciation trainer: minimal pairs for vowels.

A large French listening drill of 8,299 word pairs, each in both directions, with multiple recordings per word; worth using as a supplement for ear training, but it teaches no vocabulary, grammar or usage.

Verdict

The deck does one job and does it consistently. Every card shows two words with IPA and plays one recording ("Do you hear nous [nu] or ne [nə]?"), and all 16,598 notes carry audio, with 1,398 distinct files across only 295 words. That means you hear the same contrasts from different speakers, which is the stated aim. The sample shows correct spellings and IPA, and the pairs target real trouble spots: nasal vowels (pont/pain, vous/vin), u/y/ø/œ (vue/vin, jus/jeu), and e/ɛ (été/était). The weaknesses are everything around that drill. There are no translations (the template's translation span is empty), no sentences, and no explanation of what differs in each pair. The order looks shuffled rather than sequenced: the opening mixes unrelated sounds, the same pair like vous/vin recurs at positions 3115, 7356, 16595 and 16596, and the end of the deck is a run of v-words in alphabetical order. Some pairs are odd choices: bare letter names (j /ʒi/, c /se/, q /ky/, p /pe/), words like écrin and législature, and pairs that differ by more than one sound (julie/joli, cinq/sac, blanc/bleu). The audio is present everywhere, but I cannot judge its quality.

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alphabet or script deck · A1 · 30 notes · audio on 87% · updated November 2019

Pronunciation: the alphabet.

A 30-card French letter-name deck with audio on each single-letter card that works as a quick first pass on the alphabet, but it teaches nothing beyond the 26 letter names and its respellings contain errors.

Verdict

The single-letter cards do their one job cleanly: the front shows a letter ("B 🔊"), the back gives a respelling ("bay") and audio, and 26 of 30 notes carry a sound file. The order is A to Z, so there is nothing to sort out. The weaknesses are in the content. Several respellings are misleading or wrong in the sample: U is "e-yooh", R is "err" with "(roller r)" on the single card, and W is "dooblay-vey". The bare consonants F, L, M and N are given as "f", "l", "m", "n", which tells you nothing about the French names. The four opening cards each put 7 letters (5 on the last) on one prompt, so you cannot grade them honestly, and they duplicate the 26 single cards that follow. There are no example words, no accented letters (é, è, ç and so on), and no letter combinations such as ou, oi or ch, which matter more for reading French than the letter names do.

Use it if you are a complete beginner who wants to hear and see the 26 letter names in about 15 minutes, ideally while checking the audio against another source because the respellings are shaky. Do not use it as a pronunciation course, as a vocabulary deck, or if you need accented characters and spelling-to-sound rules. It stops at the letter names, and you will need other material right after it.

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mixed · A1-A2 · 349 notes · audio on 100% · updated May 2016

Pronunciation trainer: french sounds contrasted with english.

A French spelling-to-sound and minimal-pair drill with full audio and pictures, worth studying for pronunciation alone and not as a vocabulary or sentence deck.

Verdict

The deck is strongest where it should be. Every one of the 349 notes has a recording, and 60% have a picture. Spelling cards pair a letter pattern with a concrete example word, IPA and usage notes, for example 'in/im' with lapin versus insecte, or 'g' before a consonant with grève versus 'g' before i/e/y with orange. The IPA, translations and genders I checked in the sample look correct. The weaknesses are in the material. Words were picked to show a spelling rule, not because learners need them: the opening has évier at #22 and toboggan at #27, the sample includes pichet, oasis and cacahuète, and the deck teaches only 88 of the 1,000 most common French words. It has no sentences at all. The minimal-pair section ends with items like boche ('Insult (for a German)'), lotte/latte and lump/lap with the gloss 'lumpfish'. Several pairs are French against an English word (moue/moo, du/do, raid/red), and some are gibberish ('mahousse', 'peu ding'). A pair that contrasts French with English is a different task from hearing two French sounds apart.

Use it if you are at A1-A2 and want a systematic pass through French spelling rules, silent final letters, nasal vowels and liaison, with something to hear and see on each card. It also suits learners who already study vocabulary elsewhere and want a dedicated ear-training deck. Do not use it as your main deck. It will not give you common words, grammar or French in context, and the minimal-pair half will frustrate you until you remove the English-word pairs.

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alphabet or script deck · A1 · 101 notes · audio on 100% · updated August 2024

Pronunciation: the writing system.

A free, audio-complete pronunciation primer that teaches French by sound rather than by letter; it is worth an hour or two as an A1 warm-up, but it is not a course.

Verdict

The deck does one narrow job well. Each of the 33 sounds gets a card with the IPA symbol, its spellings, an example word and a sentence, and every one of those has a recording (99 of 99 sound-bearing notes, 99 distinct files). The three-pass design is sensible: priming cards first, then 'Read this word', then 'Read this sentence', with the answer on the back. The weak points are in the content. The sentences are built to repeat one sound, so many are alliterative or odd: 'Le rare rat rouge court', 'Peu veulent jouer avec le feu', and 'The posh cat chases the pussy' for 'la chatte'. The same 33 examples come back in all three passes, so you meet 120 distinct words in total and none of the top-40 function words (je, pas, tu, vous, à). The sample also shows real errors. 'gateau' is missing its circumflex in the pâtissier sentence. The /m/ and /n/ notes say each letter makes an 'n' sound. The /ɛ̃/ card lists 'in, im' but its example word is 'faim'.

Use it if you are a true beginner who wants a short, structured introduction to how French spelling maps onto sound, and you are already immersing in other material, as the deck itself assumes. It also works as a quick check of the nasal vowels and /y/ vs /u/ against native audio. Do not use it as your main vocabulary or grammar source, and do not treat it as a complete spelling reference. If you need useful sentences, frequency-ordered words or any grammar explanation, you will have to get them elsewhere.

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