French A1: Core Vocabulary

What is in this deck

With this deck you learn French at level A1: 187 cards with full sentences, plus pronunciation, a note on the form and two words from the same context.

Most people starting French learn words. Here you learn sentences, because “le pain” on its own is no help when you are standing in a shop in the morning.

Each of the roughly 190 cards is a whole, usable everyday sentence: greeting someone, ordering, asking the way, saying how you are. The note gives the pronunciation in plain respelling, the article, and the word field around it: merci, s'il vous plaît, de rien, pardon sit together because you need them together.

Nine topic areas from food to school. Once you are through them, you understand what is said at a French checkout, and you can answer.

The categories decide what comes up: start with “Everyday Life” alone and add the rest when you are ready.

You learn French. The cards, the categories and the usage notes are in English, so you never have to learn through a third language.

What you learn

• Around 190 everyday words and phrases
• Pronunciation in every note, in plain respelling
• Gender and article learned with the word
• Related terms grouped on one card
• Nine fields from food to school

The categories

9 categories sort the 187 cards. You can filter by category and take on what is due right now.

1. Everyday Life
2. Food and Drink
3. Family and People
4. At Home
5. School and Work
6. Town and Getting Around
7. Time and Numbers
8. Body and Health
9. Free Time

Learning with Qardbox

You see a card, you think, you turn it over and say whether you knew it. A round asks nothing more of you, and how the app works out the next date from that is on the page about FSRS-6.

What sits comes back less often, what wobbles comes back soon. You set a daily goal, and when nothing is due the app tells you exactly that instead of inventing work for you. How a round goes is shown on the learning page.

Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-up, no ads. After the purchase the deck sits in your library like any other subject and can be studied, reordered and extended just like your own.

What it costs, and what it doesn’t

Qardbox itself costs nothing, and it stays that way. Every function is there from the start, with no subscription, no ads and no tiers; what that rests on is on the page about what it costs.

Your own cards stay unlimited, and decks from friends or from the family you read in without a limit, from a file as well. You do not need this deck in order to learn with Qardbox.

It is a shortcut: 187 checked cards for €1.29, once, with Family Sharing. The work you would otherwise do is already done. The App Store shows the price in your currency.