Food & Drink Flashcards
Menus, markets and breakfast tables: the core food and drink words you'll use every single day abroad. Pick your language — every deck is free to read and free to study with spaced repetition.
Why food vocabulary pays off first
The first real conversation most travellers have abroad is ordering food — which makes this the most immediately rewarding vocabulary you can learn. Menus, markets and cafés become readable, and locals genuinely appreciate the effort. The decks above cover the staples — bread, water, coffee, meat, fruit — across six languages, and you will notice how much travels between them (café, chocolate, banana are near-universal). Study tip: these words are concrete, so attach each to a mental image of the food itself rather than the English word — picture the bread when you see "pain", and the word sticks twice as fast.
Study them so they stick
Reading a word list once is recognition, not knowledge. Pick your language above, read through the deck, then save it to a free account and let spaced repetition schedule the reviews — a few minutes a day and the whole set moves into long-term memory. Curious how that works? Our guide to the spaced repetition algorithm explains it in plain English.