French vocabulary overview
LangOria's French course is currently built around practical sentence pairs from the Tatoeba corpus — a crowdsourced database of translations by native French speakers from Paris, Quebec, Dakar, and beyond. The vocabulary is organised by CEFR level: A1 covers survival French, A2 covers everyday conversation, B1 covers working French. Each entry pairs a French sentence with its English translation so you can read, listen, and shadow the natural rhythm of native French speech — including the liaison between words that gives French its characteristic flow. The corpus is sampled across the major Francophone regions — France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, and Morocco — so you will see both 'soixante-dix' (France, Belgium, Switzerland) and 'septante' (Belgium, Switzerland) for 70, both 'quatre-vingts' and 'octante' for 80, and both standard French from Paris and joual-influenced sentences from Montreal. The audio uses fr-FR voices that capture liaison: 'les_amis' is rendered as /le.za.mi/ rather than /le.a.mi/, and 'c'est_un' is rendered as /sɛ.t‿ɛ̃/ rather than /sɛ.ɛ̃/ — these contractions are not optional in connected speech and the shadowing drill trains your ear to expect them. Each entry also flags false friends ('bibliothèque' = library, not bookshop — that is 'librairie') and the same sentence is sometimes presented in both the formal 'vous' and the casual 'tu' register so you can see the pronoun's effect on the verb form. Subjunctive and conditional moods are surfaced one level at a time, starting with the most common triggers (il faut que, je voudrais que) so you do not get overwhelmed by the mood system on day one.
French vocabulary by level
Click any level to see the full list of words at that tier.
Why LangOria's French vocabulary works
Real example sentences
Every word comes with a real example from the Tatoeba corpus — no synthetic textbook filler.
Spaced repetition
Reviews are scheduled at the moment you are about to forget, so you retain more in less time.
45–65-minute daily loop
A short focused daily session beats a long abandoned one — streaks keep you honest.
French vocabulary FAQ
How is French vocabulary organised on LangOria?
By recognised ability levels — CEFR for most languages, JLPT for Japanese, HSK for Chinese and TOPIK for Korean. Each level groups the vocabulary you need at that stage, ordered by frequency and difficulty.
How many French words do I need per level?
It depends on the level and exam system: A1 covers roughly the 500 highest-frequency words and C2 the rarest academic and literary vocabulary; HSK 1 is 150 words and N5 around 800. Every deck pairs each word with a real example sentence from the Tatoeba corpus.
Where do the example sentences come from?
From Tatoeba, a community-built corpus of translations written by native speakers. Each example is designed for spaced-repetition review, so you meet words in the contexts native speakers actually use.
What is the best way to study French vocabulary?
The 45–65-minute daily spaced-repetition loop: review each word just as you are about to forget it. Pick the level that matches your goal — survival (A1), everyday conversation (A2-B1) or professional/fluent (B2-C1) — and move up one level at a time.