Sort by gender as you learn
Seven of these are le-words and five are la-words. Writing them in two columns — le on the left, la on the right — is a memory trick that costs nothing and pays every time the word comes back.
Dans la salle de classe — twelve classroom words
Your first themed word set: twelve things in a classroom or on a desk, each with its article and respelling — le livre, le stylo, la chaise, la fenêtre and friends. These are the nouns the next four lessons build sentences from, so the article-habit gets its first real workout here.
The words
| French | English | Say it |
|---|---|---|
| le livre | the book | luh LEEVR |
| le stylo | the pen | luh stee-LOH |
| le crayon | the pencil | luh kreh-YOH(n) |
| le cahier | the notebook | luh kah-YAY |
| le sac | the bag | luh SAHK |
| le bureau | the desk | luh bew-ROH |
| le tableau | the board | luh tah-BLOH |
| la table | the table | lah TAHBL |
| la chaise | the chair | lah SHEHZ |
| la porte | the door | lah PORT |
| la fenêtre | the window | lah fuh-NEHTR |
| la gomme | the eraser | lah GOHM |
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
Hear the words
Each word is read twice — say it back in the gap. Computer-generated voice; credits on the course page.
Do it now — on paper
- Write the twelve words in two gender columns from memory; check, fix, repeat tomorrow.
- Touch five of these objects around you and name each aloud with its article.
- Quiz a partner: they say the English, you answer with article + noun + the un/une form.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The French Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.
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