Your free French book, and the app it comes from
French Made Familiar is at the bottom of this page. It only has room for 100 words and one story, so here is a quick look at the app that has the rest.
Learn French by reading
Superlexa teaches French through reading. You start with true stories full of words you can almost recognize from English. When you meet a new word, you tap it to see what it means and where it comes from, often with an English word you already know. That link makes the word much easier to remember.
The stories start with words that look like English and get harder as you learn.
Tap any word to see what it means and where it comes from.
Short posts like tweets give you something quick to read.
These screens show Spanish. The French side of the app works the same way.
There is more in the app than the screens above show:
- The dictionary explains more than 13,000 French words, each with its meaning and origin.
- Every story has audio narration, so you can listen as you read.
- Short lessons teach the grammar one topic at a time.
- The words you save come back for review, so you keep them.
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The app is free to download, and everything in it is open when you first install it. After that, the dictionary, three stories in each language and the first part of the lessons stay free. A subscription opens the rest.
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Spelling patterns such as -ty becoming -té, 100 common French words with the English word hiding inside each one, and the full true story of Flight MH370 in French with the English under each paragraph.
38 pages · 380 KB · No sign-up
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