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96 words in 10 topics, with pictures and sound, and 56 French and English grammar lessons.
📖 🇫🇷 French lessons
🔤 Getting started
- 🔤French letters and accentsFrench is written with twenty-six Latin letters, from left to right. But it has little…
- 👋Greetings and introductions in FrenchThe first thing we learn in any language is how to greet people and introduce ourselves.…
🗓️ Everyday words
- 🔢Numbers in FrenchNumbers are one of the first things we need: to say our age, count things and tell the…
- 📅Days, months and seasonsA week has seven days, and a year twelve months and four seasons. In French the names of…
- 🕒Telling the time in FrenchTo ask the time we say Quelle heure est-il ? (What time is it?), and answer with Il…
- 👨👩👧The family in FrenchTo talk about our family we need the names of its members, and little words like mon and…
📐 Grammar
- 🏷️Definite and indefinite articlesIn French, before every noun we put a little word called the “article”. It tells us…
- 👦Masculine and feminineIn French every noun is either masculine or feminine, even things! The table, la table,…
- 🍎Plurals in FrenchTo make a noun plural in French we usually add an s at the end and change the article to…
- 🙋Personal pronounsPronouns are little words we use instead of nouns so we don't repeat them, like “I”,…
- 🎨Adjectives and agreementAn adjective describes a noun: un chat noir (a black cat). In French, as in Arabic, the…
- 🚫Saying no: ne ... pasTo make a sentence negative in French, we put two words around the verb: ne before it…
- ❓How do we ask questions in French?There are several ways to ask a question in French. The easiest is to raise your voice…
- 📦Place words: sur, sous, dansWhere's the cat? On the table, under it, or in the box? In French we use little words…
- 🎒Possessives: mon, ma, mesTo say “my book”, “your bag” or “his toys”, we put a little word before the noun that…
- 👉Demonstratives: ce, cette, cesTo point at something and say “this book” or “this rose”, French uses ce, cet, cette and…
- 🥖du, de la, des: some of somethingWhen we eat or drink “some” of something we don't count, like bread, water or milk,…
- 👀c'est and il y aTwo phrases we hear in almost every sentence: c'est means “this is” or “it is”, and we…
- ⚖️Comparing: plus, moins, aussiThe giraffe is taller than the elephant, and the tortoise is slower than the rabbit! To…
- 🎧Sound-alike words: a / à and et / estFrench has words that sound the same but are spelled two ways and mean different things.…
✍️ Conjugation
- 🌟The verb être in the presentThe verb être means “to be”, and it's one of the most important French verbs: we use it…
- 🎒The verb avoir in the presentThe verb avoir means “to have”. We use it to say what we have: J'ai un chat (I have a…
- 🎵First-group verbs in the presentMost French verbs end in -er, like parler (to speak), jouer (to play) and chanter (to…
- 🏁Second-group verbs in the presentSecond-group verbs end in -ir, like finir (to finish), choisir (to choose) and grandir…
- 🚶The verbs aller and faire in the presentaller (to go) and faire (to do, to make) are two irregular verbs we use every day: Je…
- ⏮️The passé composéTo talk about what happened in the past we usually use the passé composé. It has two…
- ⏭️The futur procheTo talk about what we're going to do soon there's a very easy way: the verb aller in the…
- 🪥Reflexive verbs: je me laveSome verbs come with an extra pronoun because the subject does the action to themselves:…
- 📣Commands: Range ta chambre !We use the imperative to tell someone to do something: Ferme la porte ! (Close the…
- 🕰️The imparfaitWe use the imparfait to describe the past and tell what we used to do: Quand j'étais…
- 🚀The futur simpleThe futur simple tells what will happen later: Demain, il fera beau (Tomorrow the…
- 🚌The verbs prendre and venir in the presentprendre (to take) and venir (to come) are two irregular verbs we use a lot, and other…
- 🙏pouvoir, vouloir and devoirThree important verbs usually followed by an infinitive: pouvoir (can), vouloir (want)…
📖 🇬🇧 English lessons
🔤 Getting started
- 🔤English letters and their soundsEnglish is written with twenty-six letters, from left to right, and each letter has a…
- 👋Greetings and introductions in EnglishIn English we say Hello or Hi to greet someone, Good morning in the morning, and Goodbye…
🗓️ Everyday words
- 🔢Numbers in EnglishEnglish numbers from 1 to 12 are learned by heart, then there's a nice rule: from 13 to…
- 📅Days, months and seasons in EnglishIn English the names of days and months always start with a capital letter: Monday,…
- 🕒Telling the time in EnglishTo ask the time we say What time is it?, and answer: It's.... When it's exactly on the…
- 👨👩👧The family in EnglishTo talk about our family we need the names of its members, and words like my to say “my…
📐 Grammar
- 🏷️a, an and theBefore a singular noun we usually put a or an, or the. And the good news: English…
- 🍎Plurals in EnglishTo make a noun plural in English we usually add s: cat → cats. But some words take es or…
- 🙋Pronouns in EnglishPronouns take the place of nouns: I, you, he, she. And English has a special pronoun for…
- 🎒my, your, his and herTo say “my book” or “his bag” we put a word before the noun that shows who owns it: my…
- 👉this, that, these and thoseTo point at things we use this for something near and that for something far. In the…
- ⚖️Adjectives and comparing in EnglishIn English the adjective comes before the noun and never changes: a big dog, big dogs, a…
- 📦Place words: in, on and underWhere's the cat? In the box, in the box, on the table, on the table, or under the bed,…
- 👀there is and there areTo say something is somewhere we use there is with singular and there are with plural:…
- ❓How do we ask questions in English?To ask questions in English we use words that usually start with wh: What, Where, Who……
- 💪can and can'tcan is one of the easiest verbs: it never changes with any pronoun, and the base verb…
⏳ Tenses
- 🌟The verb to be: am, is and areThe verb to be is the most important verb in English. In the present it has three forms:…
- 🎁The verb haveThe verb have means to own something: I have a bike. With he, she and it it becomes has.…
- 🔁The present simpleWe use the present simple for habits, things that happen again and again, and facts: I…
- ▶️The present continuousWe use the present continuous for what's happening now, at this moment: I am reading.…
- ⏮️The past simpleWe use the past simple for things that happened and finished in the past: Yesterday, I…
- 🚀The future: will and going toEnglish has two easy ways to talk about the future: will + verb for predictions and…
- 📣Commands in EnglishCommands in English are very easy: we use the base verb with no pronoun: Open the door!…
🇫🇷 French
- 📇French words with picturesTap any card to hear the word in French.
- 🎧French words quizLook at the picture or listen to the word, then pick the right answer.
- 🔤Spell French wordsPut the letters in order to spell the picture's name in French.
- ✍️Conjugate French verbsPick the verb and the tense, then the correct form with the pronoun.
🇬🇧 English
- ⏳English verb tensesPick the verb and the tense, then the correct form with the pronoun.
- 📇English words with picturesTap any card to hear the word in English.
- 🎧English words quizLook at the picture or listen to the word, then pick the right answer.
- 🔤Spell English wordsPut the letters in order to spell the picture's name in English.