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French first words and phrases for toddlers
Real French your child can hear today — and you can say back. 1,000+ illustrated words and 500+ everyday phrases, each one spoken by a woman and a man, both native French voices. Ages 0–5.
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Je t’aime.
“I love you.” · Me & My People
Hear it in French
Both clips are the app’s own audio, copied straight from the bundle. Tap one, then say it yourself — that second part is the one that counts.
The phrases library
Say these today.
Eight real cards from the free set, grouped by the moment they belong to. The French is exactly what the app shows; the English underneath is for you, not for the card. Tap a voice, then say it out loud to your child — that is the whole method.
Mealtime
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Encore, s’il te plaît.
“More, please.”
I Want & I Need -
J’ai fini.
“All done.”
No, Stop & All Done
Bedtime
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Bonne nuit, dors bien.
“Good night, sleep tight.”
Talk With Me -
J’ai peur du noir.
“I'm afraid of the dark.”
How I Feel
Playtime
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Où est-il passé ?
“Where did it go?”
Where Things Go -
Te voilà !
“There you are!”
Where Things Go
Big Feelings
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Je suis triste.
“I'm sad.”
How I Feel -
Je suis en colère !
“I'm mad!”
How I Feel
The words library
First words, in three stages.
Words are organised into three stages you choose for your child, so a fifteen-month-old is not handed grenade. Every word below is a real card — the twelve with pictures are free forever; press a voice.
First Words 0–24 months
Free — picture, French word, both voices.
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chien
dog
Animals
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lait
milk
Food & Drink
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ballon
ball
Toys
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cœur
heart
Shapes
Also in this stage, in the full library
poule
chicken
Animals
pain
bread
Food & Drink
goûter
snack
Food & Drink
pomme de terre
potato
Food & Drink
Growing Words 2–3 years
Free — picture, French word, both voices.
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château
castle
Places
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arc-en-ciel
rainbow
Nature & Weather
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camion de pompiers
fire truck
Vehicles
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pingouin
penguin
Animals
Also in this stage, in the full library
glace
ice cream
Food & Drink
sucette
lollipop
Food & Drink
pieuvre
octopus
Animals
petit-déjeuner
breakfast
Food & Drink
Word Builder 3–5 years
Free — picture, French word, both voices.
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paon
peacock
Animals
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volcan
volcano
Nature & Weather
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lampe de poche
flashlight
Home
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courgette
zucchini
Food & Drink
Also in this stage, in the full library
pivert
woodpecker
Animals
renne
reindeer
Animals
grenade
pomegranate
Food & Drink
chou frisé
kale
Food & Drink
The whole library, not a smaller edition
What’s inside for French.
- 1,000+ words in 16 categories — Animals, Food & Drink, Body, Home, Clothes, Toys, Vehicles, Nature & Weather, Places, People, Actions, Colors, Numbers, Shapes, Feelings, and Everyday Words.
- Three age stages — First Words (0–24 months), Growing Words (2–3 years), Word Builder (3–5 years). You choose; the app never quietly moves your child on.
- 500+ phrases in 9 themes — I Want & I Need, No, Stop & All Done, Look at This!, What’s Happening, Where Things Go, Me & My People, Let’s Play Together, How I Feel, and Talk With Me.
- 3,094 French clips — a woman’s and a man’s native voice on every word and every phrase, all bundled in the app so nothing needs a signal.
- French comes with the other seven — English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Korean and Russian are in the same app, at the same one price. Switch language on the card itself, without losing your place.
- 75 words and 35 phrases free, forever — 25 words for each stage, all in French, with both voices and their pictures.
Straight from the catalog
Notes on the French itself.
- Two French voices, on every card. Every word and every phrase is spoken twice — in a woman’s native French voice and in a man’s — and both live in the app at no extra cost. A toddler who has tuned out one pitch will lean in at another, and whichever parent is doing bedtime, there is a voice on the card that sounds a little like them.
- Which French. The written French follows the French of France. Where usage splits, the word list takes the Metropolitan term: breakfast, lunch and dinner are petit-déjeuner, déjeuner and dîner rather than the Québec déjeuner, dîner and souper; ice cream is glace rather than crème glacée. There is no separate Canadian French library, and we would rather say so plainly than let you find out on card forty.
- Why the cards are bare. A word card shows chien, not le chien. That is deliberate: the picture already says which thing it is, and a French article is not a fixed part of the word — it changes with the sentence you drop it into. The phrases library is where the grammar shows up in one piece, contractions included. J’ai peur du noir. quietly contains de + le fused into du, and your child learns that as a sound long before anyone calls it a rule.
- Why spoken French, and not a phonetic spelling. French does not pronounce what it prints. Où est-il passé ? runs est straight into il so the two words arrive as one; Te voilà ! drops the l you can see on the page. No respelling in an English guide gets a parent there. A native voice does, in one tap.
- Homophones are the rest of the reason. French for small children is full of words that sound identical and mean nothing alike. lait is the milk in the cup and also, to the ear, laid — ugly. pain is bread and also pin, the tree. This is exactly where a picture earns its place: the illustration decides which word the sound meant, before your child has any grammar to decide it with.
- One picture, doing the work alone. Each illustration has to pass one test before it ships: a single 3:2 picture, no caption and nothing off the card, has to tell a tired parent which word it is. That is why poule and poulet can both be in a French library without confusing anyone — French separates the animal from the meat, and the picture separates them again.
Why most families open these cards
For the grandparents.
A lot of French in a lot of homes is really about one person: a grandmother in Lyon, a grand-père outside Montréal, an aunt who calls on Sundays. The video call comes, and the child has nothing to offer but a wave. Over time the calls get shorter.
Twenty words changes that call. A child who can offer chien and ballon, and one evening Je t’aime. — that child is not bilingual, and does not need to be. They have something to hand across, and the person on the other end has something to answer. That is what keeps a family language alive across a border: not fluency, but a reason to keep speaking.
It works in the other direction too. Show the grandparent the card. Let them say the word into the phone, in their French, and let your child hear a voice they love saying it. The app is the prompt; the family is the point.
Questions parents ask
French questions.
Is this French from France, or Canadian French?
The written French follows the French of France. Where the two diverge, the word list uses the Metropolitan term: the meals are petit-déjeuner, déjeuner and dîner, not the Québec déjeuner, dîner and souper; ice cream is glace rather than crème glacée. There is no separate Canadian French library. A family in Montréal will understand every card — and nothing stops you saying your own word out loud after the card plays. That is the part your child actually learns from.
Why do the cards say chien and not le chien?
A word card holds one word, because the picture is already doing the work of saying which one. Adding an article would also make the card wrong half the time: French articles change with the sentence around them — le chien, un chien, du chien. So the words library teaches the word, and the phrases library shows it living inside a sentence, contractions and all: J’ai peur du noir. is de + le fused into du, exactly as a French parent would say it at bedtime.
My French is rusty. Will my accent confuse my child?
No. The recording carries the pronunciation; you carry the relationship, and children learn language from the person in the room. Play the clip, then say it yourself — an imperfect Bonne nuit, dors bien. from you is worth more than a perfect one from a speaker. If you want a model to copy before you say it, tap the same card twice: the woman first, then the man.
Everything else — teaching a language you don’t speak, screen time for a baby, what the $9.99 unlocks — is answered on the FAQ.
Simple Words, Special Moments
Start with one word.
75 words and 35 phrases are free, forever — in French, with both voices. One $9.99 purchase opens the rest of the 1,000+ words and 500+ phrases, in all eight languages at once. No subscription, nothing renews.
On Apple, the purchase is set up for Family Sharing. Google Play has no in‑app‑purchase family sharing, so on Android it stays with the account that bought it.
Same app, same card
More languages.
French sits alongside seven others in the same app, on the same card. If your family runs on two of them, both are already here.
- All eight languagesThe full list, with what each one includes
- English for toddlersSamples, voices, and the same honest notes
- Spanish for toddlersSamples, voices, and the same honest notes
- Portuguese for toddlersSamples, voices, and the same honest notes
- German for toddlersSamples, voices, and the same honest notes
- Italian for toddlersSamples, voices, and the same honest notes
- Korean for toddlersSamples, voices, and the same honest notes
- Russian for toddlersSamples, voices, and the same honest notes
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