Are you learning French? If so, our beautifully designed vocabulary deck is exactly what you need to take your French comprehension to the next level. Our deck is optimized for fast learning speed, and it has been expertly crafted to make native media as comprehensible as possible. With this deck, you can rest assured that you’ll be understanding and enjoying real French TV shows and books in weeks or months, not years.
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Buy Now for $29.99At Refold, we're focused on getting you to understand real French — not textbook French, not tourist phrases. The single biggest barrier standing between you and that goal is vocabulary.
This hand-crafted deck cuts straight to what matters: the 1,000 words that show up constantly in real French TV shows, books, and everyday conversation. We analyzed 2,600 of the most common words in native French content, then stripped out the 1,600 you can easily pick up through immersion — cognates, near-cognates, and words you'll absorb naturally just by watching and reading. What's left is the cream of the crop.
By combining this deck with your French immersion, you'll have a solid 2,600-word vocabulary in roughly three months — enough to start genuinely enjoying native media.
We also optimized the card order so that over 90% of example sentences introduce just one new word at a time. That makes every sentence easy to understand, which makes every new word far easier to lock in. The example sentences themselves were written and recorded by a native speaker from France, so you're learning authentic French from day one.
For best results, pair this deck with regular French immersion — reading, watching, and listening to content you actually enjoy. Not sure where to start? Check out our complete immersion learning guide.
Learning French vocabulary has never been easier than with the FR1K Vocabulary Deck.
The hardest part of learning a language is basic comprehension. Once you can understand enough to have fun, you'll never want to stop.
Learn what French is supposed to sound like with high-quality audio recorded by a native French speaker from France.
Reinforce what you learn with concrete high-resolution visuals.
Learn words in context with real example sentences, handwritten by French teachers and sorted by difficulty to optimize your learning.
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If it’s your first time studying a language, then you probably should.
Duolingo is a language-learning video game. It’s a great way to try out a language to see if you like it and to build a daily habit of engaging with the language.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t get you very far, and definitely won’t help you understand French.
Yep! But they have a few problems:
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They aren’t focused on helping you understand TV shows and casual conversation.
They haven’t filtered out the “easy words”.
They don’t have native audio.
The example sentences (if they even have any) are crowdsourced and usually low quality.
NO! This just builds the initial foundation for understanding French. Fluency comes after thousands of hours spent with the language.
Check out our French quickstart guide for content recommendations.
Congrats 🥳! Head on over to our guide on sentence mining to learn how to make cards directly from your immersion.
We began the deck creation process by analyzing the most frequent words in real French TV shows, books, and social meda. From this list, we cut out over 1600 words that you can learn easily through immersion (words that look the same as English words or words that are just similar form of a word you already learned). This left just the cream of the crop — the 1000 most words that are the most important to learn through dedicated vocabulary study.
Yes, over 90% of the sentences in this deck are i+1. That means they only introduce one new word at a time.
Yes, the audio was produced by a native speaker from France.
