Learn French Vocab! App Reviews

This is a very easy-to-use flash card app (aka Spaced Repetition Software). The vocabulary is useful and current, and there are plenty of cards to help build and maintain vocabulary. Well worth it for fitting a good hours worth of studying into those short breaks throughout your day.

This has been a useful way to refresh my high school French in preparation for a France vacation. Remembering the word or phrase for something is the hardest part of picking up a rusty language, and this flash card technique has brought a lot back.

Ive had a few years of French and wanted to refresh my memory and become more proficient. Ive downloaded a number of apps and find that the hands-down winner is Brainscapes intuitive approach. The learing curve is fast - you are presented with a word in English ("to play") and then tap a button to both see and hear it in French - you then quickly rate your comprehension on a scale of 1 to 5. The systems learns your weak spots and through rapid repetition reinforces vocabulary and phrases until you have mastered them. When youve had enough (there is no end point - you determine how much you want to learn each day), simpy select "done" and the program automatically syncs your progress. I find this method superior - difficult concepts wont get lost in the shuffle of learning. I wouldnt recommend this app if you are a complete novice - but for what I want to accomplish, its fantastic. Perfect and worth every penny.

So far so good. I Had a chance to practice speaking French recently abroad and many of the native speakers thought that I was also a native speaker in passing conversations while dining and touring. Çest bon!

Nice little app to review vocabulary on the go. It lets you rate your confidence with each flash card and brings it back quicker if you need more practice with it.

I love this app - its clean, ad free (!!!), easy to use, organized, and incredibly helpful!

Having studied French in the distant past, this was a great way to quickly re-expose myself to a large amount of vocabulary quickly in a streamlined, easy to use app!

This has been a great app for memorizing French on my own, and playing flash card games with friends in class. Well organized and easy to use.

This app is absolutely amazing! It helps me remember words quickly and with ease. The pronunciation recordings are 10/10 and the app looks very professional and nice. Id definitely recommend it to any beginners learning french.

The app itself is ok for the first 15 decks if you are willing to pay $10, but if you are looking for something long-term look elsewhere. The developers want to sell their main Brainscape app, and that requires an expensive subscription if you want to go beyond the 1st 15 decks... Read the reviews of the main app to get an idea of what you are getting into. As far as vocabulary apps go, this is one of the better ones: the nouns are presented with the article, the pronunciation is given, adjectives are shown with both genders, where different. Also, most of the words chosen are relevant. What I would improve are removal of some of the words, such as the personal pronouns, and teach those as part of a different app all together in one go. Also, sometimes a hint on which meaning of a word is meant would help. For example, the app just shows "mean". Is that supposed to be "cheap" or "not a nice person"? I also feel that for the $10 there could be a few more word lists included, but at least the app allows the first 3 vocabulary lists to be used for free to evaluate if the approach works for you. I think the key here is self-discipline and honesty to oneself, otherwise this approach wont work too well.