Fundamental Vocabulary to Learn French

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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100 days of vocabulary practice
Hand-picked example sentences
Authentic native audio
Downloadable Anki flashcard deck
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The most critical vocabulary to learn French

At Refold, we’re focused on teaching you to understand real French. The biggest obstacle to understanding a language is vocabulary, so we created this vocabulary deck to supersize your vocabulary knowledge.

Optimized for rapid vocabulary growth

We analyzed tons of native French TV shows, books, and social media and determined the most common 2600 words. From that list, we removed all of the words that you can learn easily through French immersion.

When you combine the 1000 words in this deck with the 1600 words you can easily learn through immersion, you’ll know 2600 words in just 3 months! As we teach in our Teach Yourself a Language Course, this is enough words to understand and enjoy real native media content.

And that’s not all!

In addition to painstakingly analyzing the most important words that beginners need to learn, we also hired a native French speaker from France to create authentic example sentences with audio. This way, you can learn all of these new words in context, gaining a deeper intuitive understanding of how they are actually used in real life.

We even optimized the sentence order! Over 90% of the sentences in this vocabulary deck introduce only one new word at a time.

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.

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Features of the deck

Native Audio

Learn what French is supposed to sound like with high-quality audio recorded by a native French speaker from France.

Descriptive Images

Reinforce what you learn with concrete high-resolution visuals.

Example Sentences

Learn words in context with real example sentences, handwritten by French teachers and sorted by difficulty to optimize your learning.

Frequently Asked Questions

Couldn't I build my own deck?
Yep! It just takes time, energy, and effort. The French deck took our team of data scientists, high-level French learners, and French natives about 150 hours to create. We’ve done the hard work so you don’t have to.
Why shouldn't I use Duolingo?
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.
Aren't there free decks available?
Yep! But they have a few problems:
1. They aren’t focused on helping you understand TV shows and casual conversation.
2. They haven’t filtered out the “easy words”.
3. They don’t have native audio.
4. The example sentences (if they even have any) are crowdsourced and usually low quality.
If you want to use a free deck, here’s the best we’ve found: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1089240419
Will this make me fluent?
NO! This just builds the initial foundation for understanding French. Fluency comes after thousands of hours spent with the language.
What content should I consume with the deck?
Check out our French quickstart guide for content recommendations.
I finished the deck, now what?
Congrats 🥳! Head on over to our guide on sentence mining to learn how to make cards directly from your immersion.
How were the words chosen?
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.
Are the sentences i+1?
Yes, over 90% of the sentences in this deck are i+1. That means they only introduce one new word at a time.
Is the audio made by a native French speaker?
Yes, the audio was produced by a native speaker from France.

Fundamental Vocabulary to Learn French

What's included

The most critical vocabulary to learn French

Optimized for rapid vocabulary growth

And that’s not all!

Deck Bundles

All Refold Decks English

Romance Languages

Features of the deck

Native Audio

Descriptive Images

Example Sentences

Frequently Asked Questions

Couldn't I build my own deck?

Why shouldn't I use Duolingo?

Aren't there free decks available?

Will this make me fluent?

What content should I consume with the deck?

I finished the deck, now what?

How were the words chosen?

Are the sentences i+1?

Is the audio made by a native French speaker?

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