An empty cobbled Montmartre street climbing toward Sacré-Cœur

Understand French from your very first video.

Slow, ultra-visual French you follow from zero — in an illustrated world, with a real guide who remembers every word for you.

Stay with it, and one day you're watching a French film with the subtitles off — following a podcast on your walk, holding a real conversation — all in French, without translating in your head.

How you actually pick it up

  • See it, and you get it

    A woman carries a basket; you hear « la femme porte un panier ». The French and the meaning arrive together — no translating.

  • Your memory, handled

    The words you meet are kept for you and brought back right before you'd forget — in a guided session, or when you open Study. You don't need to leave the app to review your vocabulary.

  • Words worth knowing

    About 85% of everyday French comes from just 1,000 words. Every video is built around that core.

Immerse yourself in a carefully illustrated France

Every video is set inside one illustrated world. You meet a family you get attached to, and you get to wander the France around them.

The long stairs to Sacré-Cœur
The long stairs to Sacré-Cœur
A row of Haussmann facades
A row of Haussmann facades
A café glowing at nightfall
A café glowing at nightfall
The chalk arch at Étretat
The chalk arch at Étretat
Painters on the Place du Tertre
Painters on the Place du Tertre
Notre-Dame across the Seine
Notre-Dame across the Seine
Ripe vines over the vineyards
Ripe vines over the vineyards
A quiet domed courtyard
A quiet domed courtyard
A bench facing the Eiffel Tower
A bench facing the Eiffel Tower
The temple at Buttes-Chaumont
The temple at Buttes-Chaumont

Everything in one place

Replay any line, save a word and let it come back, and run a whole session — all inside the video, with no separate flashcard app to keep alive.

Start here

Pick something you actually want to watch

Open the library, choose a story that pulls you in, and it starts playing. Nothing is assigned — you follow your own curiosity, and the French rides along.

Replay any line

Hear any sentence again, as many times as you need

Tap a line in the transcript to replay just that sentence, slowly and as often as it takes for your ear to catch it — that's where listening actually grows. And when you want the meaning, the English sits one tab away, never forced on top of the French.

Your words, kept

Tap a word to save it — and it comes back for you

Tap “+” on any word to keep it. From then on it returns on its own, right before you'd forget it, until it's yours. You never build a deck or schedule a thing — the timing is handled for you.

Guided session

Press start, and the whole thing runs itself

Choose 5, 10, 15, or 20 minutes and press start. A video plays, a few words you've met come back, another video follows — no menus, no decisions, nothing to keep alive.

It all lives together, in context — which is exactly why it sticks.

Pick the world that fits you

One universe, a few series inside it. Same slow, follow-along French — a different flavor in each. Start where your curiosity already is.

Laurane, on screen in every video

One person behind every world.

I'm on screen the whole way — telling the story, doing the voices, showing you what each word means with my hands. You follow someone you get attached to, not a stream of faceless clips.

The Bijou Family

The Bijou Family

A warm illustrated Parisian family you'll come back for: six characters, a bright apartment, small everyday stories. The one you get attached to.

The Sassy Parisians

The Sassy Parisians

French “types,” habits, and culture, played for a smile. Character, humor, and the little quirks that make France feel like France.

Placeholder

My French Scrapbook

Laurane's real life and real places in France, told through photos. The actual country, not a stock backdrop: a train trip, a city, a corner of France worth knowing.

The French Gallery

The French Gallery

Culture you can follow at this level. The French Gallery walks you through real French paintings, scene by scene, in the same slow and clear French so a masterpiece stays easy to follow.

One membership. Everything included.

Every video and every series, the interactive transcripts, your personal deck, and the memory system that brings your words back for you — all in one membership.

Start with a 7-day free trial, no credit card required.New here? Some videos are free forever — no account needed.

Monthly

$15/month

  • Every video and every series
  • Interactive transcripts and your personal deck
  • The memory system that brings your words back
  • Cancel anytime
Start free

Founding

$399once

  • Everything, for life
  • Founder-only extras and a say in what we film next
  • Your First Sentences and Your Passion Deck
  • Limited to the first 500 members
Become a founder
See everything on the plans page →

Frequently asked questions

None. The whole world is built so a true beginner can follow from zero. You understand almost everything using the scene and the gestures, not translation. The French comes along for the ride.
It's the thing that gap describes: a real, growing library of slow, beginner-first French, with a guide you can get attached to and a world worth staying in. Comprehensible input already exists for Spanish and Japanese, and for French at the true-beginner level it barely did. So we're building it.
Because a habit only helps if something catches what you learn. Here you watch French you can actually understand, and every word you meet comes back on its own, right before it fades, so the hours add up instead of leaking away. Understanding always comes before speaking, and here it has somewhere to grow.
Tap any word to hear it again, or tap “+” to save it to your own deck. You read along, look words up, and collect the ones you want, with no dictionary open in another tab.
Those hand you rules to memorize and boxes to tick. Here you watch French you can follow inside a world you enjoy, with a real guide on screen, and the platform quietly remembers your words for you. No points, no ranking, nothing to keep alive.
Yes. Every new account starts with a free 7-day trial, no card. And some videos are free forever, with no account at all.

Come see the world. Start from zero.

Slow, clear French inside a place you'll actually want to stay in, with a real guide, and a platform that remembers your words for you. Free 7-day trial, no card. Or watch some videos free forever, no account.

Comprehensible input French for real beginners, a crafted French world | French Corner — French Corner