WeSolve+ is best for turning course sheets and photographed dialogues into that deck, and this guide covers the sound layer, the ending rules, and the verb group machinery.
WeSolve+ reads the whole document and writes the questions for you
Upload your PDF, photograph your notebook, or point the camera. WeSolve+ writes questions from that material, explains why each answer is right, reads the chapter back to you as a podcast, and remembers every item you missed until you own it.
The tool below is a small browser-only tool and it is not WeSolve+: paste a few lines and text rules turn them into cards on the spot. The real app, the one that uses AI, is behind the link above.
Paste French notes, get cards
This is a browser-only tool, and that is all it isIt splits the text you paste by rule, and nothing else. WeSolve+ is a different thing entirely: it reads your whole PDF with AI, writes the reasoning behind every question, speaks the chapter back to you, and remembers what you missed so it can return it. Try the real app now, free!
This browser tool uses text rules, not AI: definition lines become cards, others become fill in the blank. The app reads whole vocabulary sheets and photographed dialogues, and its cards carry context.
The spelling-sound gap: card both directions
French text under-determines French sound: petit ends in a vowel sound, petite sounds its t, and the plural s is a fiction of the page. Card the gap explicitly, front shows the written form and asks what is heard, front gives the sound written out and asks for the correct spelling. Text-only decks produce readers who freeze at dictation and listeners who cannot find the word they know on paper; the two-direction deck is the fix, and it is French's version of the sentence-first rule.
Gender by ending: rules first, exceptions as cards
French gender looks arbitrary and mostly is not: -tion, -te and -ee run feminine, -age, -eau and -isme run masculine, and the rule set covers most nouns a course meets. Card the ending rules as rules, front asks which gender -tion predicts, then card the famous traitors individually, le probleme, la page, l'eau feminine despite -eau's rule. Rules plus exception cards beat per-noun gender grinding by an order of magnitude in cards spent, the chemistry trend-and-exception pattern speaking French.
Liaison and elision: the sandhi cards
Les amis sounds a z the page only implies; je plus aime contracts to j'aime; the h of hotel accepts elision while the h of heros refuses it. Card the junction phenomena as short phrase fronts asking what happens at the seam, and card the aspirated-h refusers as the small exception list they are. These cards matter because junctions are where spoken comprehension actually breaks, a stream of liaisons hides word boundaries the learner's ear expects.
Verb groups and the auxiliary split
French verbs sort into -er regularity, -ir and -re patterns, and a hard core of irregulars worth individual cards, etre, avoir, aller, faire, vouloir. Card group membership with a witness verb as Spanish carded families, and card the passe compose's auxiliary split as decisions: movement and reflexive verbs take etre, front asks which auxiliary aller takes and why the participle then agrees. The auxiliary decision is French's ser-estar: a small rule with long reach into every past-tense sentence.
False friends, French edition
Attendre is to wait, not attend; assister is to attend; librairie is a bookshop and the library is a bibliotheque; journee is a day's span, not a journey. The list is finite and the cost of each confusion is a confidently wrong sentence, so card them as trap fronts with the correct word for the tempted meaning on the back. English speakers hold a special advantage and a special risk in French, the shared Latin stock giving both free vocabulary and these landmines.
Where this sits in WeSolve+
Vocabulary sheets and photographed dialogues become decks through photo conversion, misses feed weak topic analysis, and the schedule carries the daily production cadence from the language learner playbook. The AP French unit page lives in the exam library. Siblings: Spanish fights mood triggers where French fights sound, English vocabulary covers the lexicon craft, and the index holds the rest.
Sources used on this page
- French language
- French orthography
- Liaison (French)
- Elision
- Aspirated h
- Grammatical gender
- French grammar
- Passe compose
- Auxiliary verb
- French verbs
- False friend
- Silent letter
- Sandhi
- Dictation (exercise)
- Listening comprehension
- Romance languages
- Flashcard
- Spaced repetition
- Testing effect
- Active recall
- Forgetting curve
- Leitner system
- Desirable difficulty
- Distributed practice
- Metacognition
- Study skills
- Retrieval-induced forgetting
- Long-term memory
| Pattern | Front | Back |
|---|---|---|
| Sound direction | Petit vs petite: what is heard? | Silent t vs sounded t |
| Ending rule | Which gender does -tion predict? | Feminine, near always |
| Traitor noun | Le or la probleme? | Le: masculine despite the look |
| Liaison | Les amis: what happens at the seam? | The s sounds as z before the vowel |
| Auxiliary decision | Aller in the passe compose? | Etre, and the participle agrees |
| False friend | Attendre means? | To wait; attending is assister |
What should French flashcards cover?
The spelling-sound gap in both directions, gender ending rules with traitor exceptions, liaison and elision seams, verb groups and the auxiliary split, false friends.
Why card sound separately from spelling?
French text under-determines the ear: silent finals and liaison mean text-only decks freeze at dictation and break at spoken word boundaries.
How should gender be learned?
Ending rules first, -tion feminine, -eau masculine, then the famous traitors as individual cards. Rules plus exceptions beat per-noun grinding.
What is the auxiliary split?
Movement and reflexive verbs take etre in the passe compose, with participle agreement: a small decision with reach into every past sentence.
Which verbs deserve individual cards?
The hard core: etre, avoir, aller, faire, vouloir and their kin. Everything else cards as group membership with a witness verb.
Where is the AP French page?
The AP French Language unit page lives in the exam library and pairs with a deck built from your course materials.
Last updated: 2026-08-15