Learn French Actually

Learn French Actually is a course of flashcards for English speakers, from your first words to C2 and beyond, built on the idea of spaced repetition and with a visualization that shows you your progress and motivates you to keep at it. THE COURSE Every deck is a short list of cards on one thing: a speech act, a sound, a verb, a grammar rule, a scene. The decks come in order, so each new card only teaches one new thing, and the order follows how French is actually spoken: the words a visitor needs on day one come first, including the coffee menu. FLASHCARDS IN WORK Cards you add land on the top level. Each time you get a card right it drops a level, and the wait before its next review grows: five cards, fifteen, forty, then overnight, three nights, a week, three weeks, two months, six months. Miss a card and it goes back up. The whole schedule is on one screen, so you can see what is ready to test, what is on its way down, and how far each card has come. HOW A REVIEW WORKS A card shows English and asks for the French. Say it out loud if you can, tap to see the answer, hear it spoken, and judge yourself: missed or got it. The app does not listen; you do, and that is what makes the recall stick. ONE RIGHT ANSWER Every card has exactly one right answer. Where English is ambiguous, a small label settles it (the match, in sports; a coffee, an espresso), so you are never guessing which French word was wanted. DETAILS Reviews work offline, and your progress syncs when you are back online. No account, no sign-in, nothing to fill in.