FlashBoss - French Core

FlashBoss - French Core: 1,000 words, the spoken foundation

Fibonacci spaced repetition and boss fights.

French Core is built from subtitle-corpus frequency data — the French people actually say, in film, television and conversation, weighted toward what carries you furthest in understanding it. Metropolitan French throughout: 1,000 words across five tiers in themed clusters, with grammar introduced tier by tier and example sentences that never use grammar you have not been taught. Finish Core and you have read more than 7,000 words of French in context.

And French arrives speaking your language: every card carries its translations, study notes and lessons in English, German, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Spanish. Study French through whichever you call home.

In this pack:

• 1,000 high-frequency words of Metropolitan French across five tiers, in themed clusters

• The gender colour-coded on every noun — blue for le, magenta for la — with the elision to l' handled on the card

• Translations and study notes in English, German, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Spanish — full coverage on every card

• 20 reference lessons — pronunciation, the tu / vous distinction, elision and liaison, and core grammar tier by tier — readable in English, German, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Spanish

• Text-to-speech on every word and example sentence, in a Metropolitan French neural voice

• Boss-fight graduation: no cluster is cleared until its hardest words are mastered

Continue into French Pareto 1 — tiers 6 to 10 — for the second thousand. The full word list and all reference lessons for every FlashBoss pack are available on the website, along with a playable boss-fight demo. The manual link in the right sidebar opens the voice samples.