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My First 1,000 Words

1,007 everyday French words you can see, in 42 cut-paper scenes — the kitchen, the café, the station, the beach. Every word is stuck on the thing it names and coloured by gender, with how to say it written out in plain English. Each scene adds one phrase you would really say there and one trap worth knowing.

  • 127 pages · 42 scenes
  • 1,007 words, coloured le / la / les
  • Look words up both ways: French–English and English–French
  • PDF, A4 — made for a screen or tablet, and prints at home
  • Buy once, yours forever — updates included
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Every scene

All 42 scenes in their nine sections, with the page each one opens on and how many words it teaches — 1,007 in all.

À la maisonat home
  1. 8 La cuisine
    the kitchen · 26 words
  2. 10 Le salon
    the living room · 27 words
  3. 12 La chambre
    the bedroom · 22 words
  4. 14 La salle de bains
    the bathroom · 26 words
  5. 16 L'entrée
    the hallway · 26 words
  6. 18 Le jardin
    the garden · 27 words
  7. 20 Le ménage
    housework · 20 words
Mangerfood
  1. 24 La boulangerie
    the bakery · 23 words
  2. 26 Le marché : les fruits
    the market: fruit · 25 words
  3. 28 Le marché : les légumes
    the market: vegetables · 26 words
  4. 30 Le café
    the café · 24 words
  5. 32 Le restaurant
    the restaurant · 26 words
  6. 34 Le supermarché
    the supermarket · 26 words
En villein town
  1. 38 La rue
    the street · 26 words
  2. 40 La gare
    the station · 25 words
  3. 42 La pharmacie
    the pharmacy · 22 words
  4. 44 Chez le médecin
    at the doctor's · 21 words
  5. 46 La poste et la banque
    the post office and the bank · 22 words
  6. 48 Le magasin de vêtements
    the clothes shop · 25 words
Les genspeople
  1. 52 La famille
    the family · 22 words
  2. 54 Le corps
    the body · 22 words
  3. 56 Le visage
    the face · 24 words
  4. 58 Décrire les gens
    describing people · 19 words
  5. 60 Les émotions
    feelings · 19 words
La naturenature
  1. 64 La météo
    the weather · 26 words
  2. 66 Les saisons
    the seasons · 24 words
  3. 68 La ferme
    the farm · 28 words
  4. 70 Les animaux
    animals · 28 words
  5. 72 La plage
    the beach · 23 words
  6. 74 La montagne
    the mountains · 24 words
En voyagetravel
  1. 78 L'aéroport
    the airport · 22 words
  2. 80 L'hôtel
    the hotel · 20 words
  3. 82 La voiture et la route
    the car and the road · 26 words
École et travailschool and work
  1. 86 La salle de classe
    the classroom · 22 words
  2. 88 Le bureau
    the office · 22 words
  3. 90 Les métiers
    jobs · 17 words
Les actionsactions
  1. 94 La journée
    the day · 26 words
  2. 96 Au parc
    at the park · 24 words
  3. 98 La fête
    the party · 26 words
  4. 100 Le sport
    sport · 27 words
Les basesthe basics
  1. 104 Les couleurs et les formes
    colours and shapes · 28 words
  2. 106 Les nombres et l'heure
    numbers and time · 23 words

Inside the book

Real pages, straight from the PDF: how the colours work, then the whole café scene — the picture with its labels, and the facing page with every word, how to say it, a phrase to use there and one trap to watch for.

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