French in 40 intensive days
Bonjour, Benjamin.
The 2,060 most frequent French words, which make up most of what you read and hear, plus 591 bonus words you practically already know from German and English. Built for reading, travel and work.
Today
Start with lesson 1
About 60–75 minutes. Do the steps in order.
- Review what's due
- Lesson: pronunciation, grammar, cognate pattern
- Learn the new words and phrases
- Drills and reading
Progress
All lessons
Words are ordered by frequency: lesson 1 has the most common words.How this course works
Frequency first. The words come from the Lexique 3.83 database of how often each word appears in French films and books. The top 2,000 lemmas cover roughly 80–85% of the words in a typical text, so lesson by lesson you understand more of everything you read.
Cognates are free. Over half of the words look like their German or English equivalent (jardin, garden, Garten). They are marked ≈, and each lesson teaches one pattern (-tion, -ité = -ity/-ität, ê = es/s, é- = s-) that unlocks dozens more. False friends are marked in red.
Spaced repetition. Every word you learn comes back just before you'd forget it. Do your reviews every day before new material: that's what makes it stick.