Furago,
French Exercise Book
Furago is a French learning site as a foreign language. Furago offers a method based on exercises with objectives to achieve and also offers news, art, sports, cinema videos, etc.
Contents
Learning Principles
Furago is an exercise-based website. The goal here is to ensure that you can complete the exercises without making mistakes.
When you make a mistake, the exercise is added to a review list. To remove an exercise from the review list, you must complete it perfectly.
If the number of exercises in the review list exceeds 10, it becomes impossible to attempt new exercises. In this case, you must clear your review list.
Usage Tips
After creating an account, go to the objectives page. This is where you will find the planned work for you.
To progress quickly, follow these tips.
- Regularly check your objectives page. If you are part of a group and the group has objectives, pay close attention to deadlines.
- Keep the number of exercises in your review list below 10.
- For your Furago account, use an email address that you check regularly. You will receive notifications informing you of various deadlines. On Wednesdays and Sundays, you will also receive a notification regarding the number of exercises available for review.
Levels
On Furago, the levels are called A0, A1, A2, and B1, with A0 being the easiest and B1 the most difficult. These are the levels used in European universities and companies.
A0 This is the level for complete beginners. At this stage of learning French, one should simply recognize letters and sounds, associate words and short phrases with their pronunciation.
A1 This level is broken down into three sub-levels: A1.1, A1.2, and A1.3. At this stage, one understands and says simple things about oneself, asks basic daily life questions. For example, one introduces oneself, says their address, asks for a price or a schedule, and reads signs containing useful information.
A2 This level is also divided into three sub-levels: A2.1, A2.2, and A2.3. At this stage, one can understand isolated sentences and frequently used expressions (personal and family information, shopping, immediate environment, work). One is able to communicate simply for common daily tasks.
B1 This level is also divided into three sub-levels: B1.1, B1.2, and B1.3. At this level, one can understand the main points of familiar topics encountered at work, school, or during leisure. One can handle most situations encountered while traveling in a region where French is spoken. One is able to produce a simple speech on familiar or personal interest topics. This is a surprisingly advanced level, and reaching it is an ambitious challenge that will require several hundred hours of learning.
Frequently Asked Questions
Revisions are extremely important. They guarantee long-term knowledge retention.
On the revision page, pay attention to the icons (dogs) and notice that some icons are in color while others are in black and white.
Color icons represent exercises that you voluntarily keep in your list. You have the right to remove them at any time. You can also choose the time frame in which they will reappear in your list.
The black and white icons, on the other hand, represent exercises that you must successfully complete before being able to remove them from your list.
Yes, it's possible, but be careful not to overload yourself with work. If you were successful on the first try, it's not impossible that you won't need to do it again.
However, if you wish to systematically add successfully completed exercises to your revision list, there is an option to do so on this page in the learning section.