Learn French with Fluera

Study French words in sentences, build your own vocabulary from songs and videos, practice against the clock. A free French learning app for your phone and browser.

How French lessons work

Your level

Pick your starting level — skip what you already know.

Your words

Pull words from a video, a song or any text — into one dictionary.

Practice

Words come back until you know them — then they are gone for good.

Sprint

A 60-second speed round — quick warmup before the day starts.

How to learn French — sentences, vocabulary and a free course

Fluera is a free French learning app that teaches vocabulary through sentences, not bare flashcards. You fill in blanks, assemble phrases, type what you hear. Every word — from the course, from a word list or from your own import — lives in one dictionary with one shared schedule.

You can learn French online in your browser or in the app on your phone — progress syncs automatically. Lessons take 5 to 10 minutes. There is no schedule, no teacher and no subscription: you decide when, how much and which words to study.

How to learn French — start with the words that matter

French shares thousands of words with English — more than any other language. That head start is real, but it also hides traps: 'actuellement' means 'currently', not 'actually', and 'assister' means 'to attend', not 'to assist'. The course starts with the most common French words and teaches each one inside a sentence, so you absorb not just the translation but the way the word actually behaves.

Lessons are 5 to 10 minutes long — about as much as fits into a break or a commute. Short daily sessions work better than occasional hour-long marathons: your brain locks in vocabulary through spaced contact, not through cramming. Learning French is a daily habit, not a weekend project, and a short lesson format supports that habit.

Learn French for beginners — what the course covers

The French course is organized by topic: food, transport, travel, home, work, shopping, health, weather, clothing and dozens more. Each topic is 4 to 6 lessons, each lesson is 3 to 6 words with sentence exercises. By the end of a topic you can understand and form simple statements in that area.

Grammar is built into the same sequence: present, past and future tense, noun gender, adjective agreement, articles, prepositions, negation. French grammar has details English does not — gendered nouns affect articles, adjectives and past participles — and the course introduces each rule at the point where it becomes necessary, not before. No separate grammar textbook needed.

The course covers beginner through solid intermediate. That is enough for travel in France or Quebec, casual conversation, reading the news and following subtitled films. If you need more, grow your French vocabulary through word lists — import words from texts, songs and videos you already consume.

French sentences, not flashcards

The problem with French flashcards is that they teach isolated pairs — 'maison = house' — but not how the word lives in a sentence. Does it take 'de la' or 'du'? Is the adjective before or after? A sentence answers these questions on every card. In French this matters even more than in most languages: liaison, elision and silent endings mean the spoken word is often shorter than the written one, and only context tells you where one word ends and the next begins.

Fluera understands French morphology: 'vu', 'voyait', 'verra', 'verraient' are all forms of one verb, 'voir', and they are folded into a single card. When you tap an unfamiliar form inside a sentence, the system resolves the right meaning — not the most frequent translation, but the one that fits this particular context.

Exercise types: fill in the missing word, assemble a sentence from shuffled parts, type what you hear, listen and pick the correct translation. Each type trains a different skill — recognition, recall, listening and spelling. Two correct answers on different days and the word leaves the queue permanently. There is no infinite review loop.

French vocabulary you build yourself

You do not have to follow the course to learn French words. Paste any French text — an article, a recipe, an email — and Fluera extracts the words and ranks them by usefulness for your level. The rarest tokens (proper nouns, one-off jargon) land at the bottom; everyday vocabulary you will encounter again lands at the top.

Other ways to add words: paste a YouTube link and the service breaks down its subtitles. Enter an artist and a song title and Fluera finds the lyrics and extracts the vocabulary. Search the catalog or add words one by one. For every word, including ones not already in the database, the system generates pronunciation and usage examples.

Every word from every source enters one dictionary with one shared state. A word learned through a list will not be asked again in a course lesson. A word you failed in a sprint comes back in Practice. No duplication, no parallel decks — one dictionary, one schedule, one progress.

Learn French with songs and videos

French chanson, pop and film are rich sources of real vocabulary — and working through real content is one of the fastest ways to move past textbook French. Enter an artist and a song title — Fluera finds the lyrics and extracts the words. Or paste a YouTube link: the service breaks down the subtitles and offers a set of words ranked by usefulness for your level.

Words you already know are flagged and can be skipped. Add the rest with one tap — they join the same training queue as your course words and are drilled in the same sentence exercises. This is not a video player with interactive subtitles: you watch the video wherever you like, and Fluera turns its vocabulary into exercises you work through at your own pace.

French word lists — ready-made and custom

Fluera has ready-made French word lists by level and topic: from the most common 500 words for beginners to themed sets for travel, restaurants, airports and business. There is also an open catalog of lists published by other users — add any list and study it alongside the course.

Build your own list in a spreadsheet-style editor: type a word, get an instant translation lookup. Or describe what you need in plain language — 'words for a trip to Paris', 'cooking vocabulary', 'verbs of motion' — and the service suggests a set. Share a finished list by link; someone else can fork it and study it on their own.

Learn French free — a full course with no limits

Fluera is completely free: no lesson limits, no features locked behind a subscription, no ads inside the app. You can learn French free for as long as you need — one lesson a day or ten. Every feature is available from minute one: the course, word lists, video and song import, practice and sprint.

You can start without signing up: take the first lessons as a guest, and when you decide to continue, create an account and all your progress carries over. Registration is only needed for syncing between devices and for push reminders.

French learning app — phone, browser, same progress

Fluera runs in any browser and installs as an app on iPhone (App Store) and Android (Google Play). The app and the browser version are functionally identical: one account, one dictionary, one progress. Start a French lesson on your phone on the train — finish it on your computer at home.

A home-screen widget shows your current streak and reminds you to study without making you open the app. Push notifications arrive only if you have not studied today and only during daytime hours — the service does not wake you up at night and does not nag more than once.

How to learn French fast — consistency over cramming

The most common reason people quit is not difficulty — it is inconsistency. Two hours on Sunday, then a week off, then guilt and another two weeks of silence. Fluera is built so that you can practice French regularly without heroics: one lesson a day, 5 to 10 minutes, no homework and no penalty for a missed day.

A streak counter shows how many consecutive days you have studied. It is a gentle guide, not a punishment: a missed day does not erase your progress. Every lesson is a concrete number of words you either learned or did not — progress is visible in numbers, not in abstract percentages. Yesterday you had 80 learned words, today 85. That growth is tangible.

French has a reputation for being difficult because of pronunciation and spelling. But the vocabulary itself is closer to English than any other major language: once you learn the pronunciation patterns, thousands of cognates become free vocabulary. The course introduces those patterns early and naturally.

French practice — Practice, Mistakes and Sprint modes

Beyond the course, Fluera has two training modes. Practice collects words you have started learning but have not fully locked in — they come back at intervals and you drill them in the same sentence exercises. Mistakes are separated out: if you got a word wrong in a lesson, it lands in a dedicated Mistakes mode where you can target exactly what is giving you trouble.

Sprint is a 60-second speed round across words you already know. A timer, a stream of questions, a counter of correct answers. It is not a full lesson — it is a quick warmup for days when time is short but you do not want to break the streak. Sprint is especially useful before a trip to a French-speaking country: it refreshes words you studied weeks ago but have not pulled from memory recently.

Both modes work with the same single dictionary: if a word is due, it appears in Practice regardless of where it entered your vocabulary — from the course, from a list or from a song import.

French for beginners and beyond

The course works for complete beginners and for people who already have a base and want to expand their vocabulary. You pick your starting level — Fluera skips the words you do not need and begins with topics that match. For beginners, the course starts with greetings, numbers, food, directions and everyday situations. For those continuing, word lists from real texts and targeted review of weak spots keep the progress moving.

One account supports multiple languages: if you are studying both French and Spanish, each language has its own dictionary while the streak and the daily habit are shared. A word learned in French never interferes with Spanish, but your learning day counts for both.