French pronunciation looks intimidating on paper — silent letters, nasal vowels, liaisons — which is exactly why beginners should start with a small set of high-frequency words and learn them by sound. The decks above cover the essentials: greetings, numbers, food, travel and the verbs that hold sentences together. Work through them with spaced repetition, ten words a day, and pair each card with its spoken sound rather than its spelling. French shares thousands of words with English (restaurant, hotel, important), so once the core vocabulary clicks, reading French becomes surprisingly manageable — the hard part is the ear, and these first words train it.

How to study these decks

Read a deck below to preview every word, then sign up free to study it with spaced repetition — the method that schedules each card back right before you would forget it. Ten words a day is the sweet spot: enough to progress fast, small enough to sustain. For the method behind it, see our guide to learning a language with flashcards.

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