Watch French you can follow.
Keep every word you tap.
Short videos you follow from what's on screen — no translating. Tap any word to keep it, and it comes back right before you'd forget it.
Two halves of one loop
Most ways of picking up French only do one half. Watching French you understand gets it in. A memory system keeps it there. On their own, each one leaks. Coupled, they compound.
Understanding a word once isn't keeping it. The loop is what closes the gap — and it's the half most video libraries never do.
You understand from the first video
Every video is built so someone who knows zero French can follow from what's on screen. You hear “la femme porte un panier” while a woman carries a basket — and you just understand. No dictionary, no pausing to translate.
Sound and picture together
Meaning arrives through the image, so the French word links straight to the thing — not through English. The sound and the sight are two traces, and two hold better than one.
The same words, again and again
You never sit and memorize a list. The most common words keep coming back across scenes and stories until they stop feeling foreign.
The words that actually matter
The 1,000 most frequent words cover about 85% of everyday French. Every video is built around that core, so your effort lands where it pays off.
Each well-timed return resets the curve higher, until the word barely drops at all. The platform picks those moments for you.
You keep every word you tap
This is the half most video libraries skip. You understand a word today and it's gone in a week — not because you failed, but because that's how memory works. Left alone, a new word fades fast.
Tap “+” on any word you meet in an episode and it's yours. Nothing else to fill in, nothing to write out, no list to keep up to date. You carry on watching.
It returns in a short Review you open when you feel like it, at a moment picked by a memory model that learns your pace — the next day, then a few days on, then a couple of weeks later. Two taps, “I had it” or “not yet”, and nothing is graded.
You never track a word or plan a review. Knowing the right moment is the platform's job, not yours.
Why 10 minutes beats 2 hours
Episodes run from two to six minutes. Two or three of them is a day's French, and that is genuinely enough.
Your attention has a hard limit
Following a language you don't know yet is expensive — even 90 seconds of it is real work for a beginner. After a few minutes attention drops and the input stops going in. Short videos keep you inside the window where it actually works.
Stop before you've had enough
End an episode still wanting more and that pull carries into the next one. Push until you're drained and starting again gets harder. At two to six minutes, an episode is over before you're spent.
Little and often beats one long push
Ten minutes today and ten tomorrow do more than two hours on a Sunday. French settles between sittings rather than during them, and a word met on three different days is held far better than the same word met three times in one.
Calm by design
Nothing to keep alive
No points, no ranking, no red dot. Nothing to defend and nothing to lose.
Miss a day, lose nothing
Come back whenever. The right words are simply waiting for you.
One number, and it only goes up
The words you've kept, counted next to your own deck. No ranking, and nothing that drops because you took a week off.
The calm does real work too. A relaxed brain absorbs more, and with nothing to defend and no way to fail, the French actually gets in.
The science, if you want it
Every choice above traces back to published research. The short version: you acquire a language by understanding real input, and you keep it by meeting it again at the right moment.
We acquire language in one way, and only one way: when we get comprehensible input in a low-anxiety environment.
Want to go deeper? Two longer reads
References
- Stephen Krashen (1982). Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition. The Input Hypothesis, the acquisition/learning distinction, the affective filter, the silent period.
- Bill VanPatten & Teresa Cadierno (1993). “Input Processing and Second Language Acquisition.” The Modern Language Journal. Input-based teaching matches or beats output drilling on speaking.
- Allan Paivio (1986). Mental Representations: A Dual Coding Approach. Visual and verbal memory traces are independent and additive.
- Stuart Webb & Paul Nation (2017). How Vocabulary Is Learned. Frequency, repetition, spacing, and incidental vocabulary through extensive input.
- Hermann Ebbinghaus (1885). Über das Gedächtnis. The forgetting curve: memory decay is fast and predictable without reinforcement.
- Henry Roediger & Jeffrey Karpicke (2006). “The Power of Retrieval Practice.” Psychological Science. Retrieval produces stronger long-term retention than re-studying; the advantage shows up at a delay.
- Nate Kornell, Matthew Hays & Robert Bjork (2009). Journal of Experimental Psychology. Trying to recall and failing, then seeing the answer, still improves later memory.
- Tony Schwartz & Jim Loehr (2003). The Power of Full Engagement. Intense effort balanced by real recovery as the basis of sustained performance.