Learn French by reading — and hearing the same sentence.

Written French and spoken French meet on one page

Learners often read French they cannot recognise when it is said, or the reverse. Lingard is for doing both: the text in front of you, audio if you want it, a tap on a word whose liaison or tense you did not catch. The sentence stays visible. That is the point of reading to learn, instead of a clip with subtitles you never look up.

You do not have to start with a novel

Le Monde and Zola are not week-one material. The French catalog has stories, dialogues, articles and summaries, with CEFR bands so “beginner” means A2 pages you can finish, not a promise on a cover. Literature is there when the pages feel easy. Until then, short is a strategy.

Save the phrase, not just the word

French pays off in chunks: on vient de, il s’agit de, a tense you finally saw twice. When you tap a word in Lingard you keep the sentence it lived in. That is closer to how French is used than a deck of isolated infinitives.

Open the French catalog

Start with the French library, or jump to a CEFR band: A2B1B2C1. The same titles are in the app once you create a free account.