Cool MateFor French speakers
English for
French speakers.
Cool Mate translates every word, example, and grammar note into French. Native English audio and a feed designed for French speakers who already know more English than they think.
Free to start. No textbook. No streak shame.
Built for French speakers
Tuned to how French speakers actually learn English.
French translations everywhere
Every challenge, definition, example, and grammar note carries French translations by native editors.
Pronunciation that French school missed
TH, R, H aspiration, schwa. The feed targets the sounds French speakers most often skip.
Real shows, real speed
No textbook English. Real movie, TV, news and talk clips at natural speed.
Miss a week, keep your progress
The Leitner box quietly catches you back up. Built for working adults, not for daily pressure.
Easy wins
French speakers already know these.
Words that look or sound nearly the same in French and English. Free vocabulary the day you start.
identical spelling
identical spelling
identical spelling
identical spelling
lose the accent
near identical
near identical
near identical
Watch out
The traps French speakers usually fall into.
False friends, missing sounds, and the patterns school never warned you about.
Actuellement means currently. Actually is en fait.
Éventuellement means possibly. Eventually is finalement.
French sensible means sensitive. English sensible means reasonable.
Librairie is a bookshop. A library is une bibliothèque.
French has no TH. Think and sink collapse. The slow-mo audio fixes this.
French stresses the last syllable. English stress is unpredictable and changes meaning: REcord versus reCORD.
Sample words
Real English challenges to try right now.
A taste of the Cool Mate feed. Tap any card to see the clip, audio, examples, and French translations.
New challenges being published. Check back soon.
Where to start
Pick a starting level that matches your reality.
We suggest A2 for most French speakers.
Most French speakers start at A2 or B1. If your school English left you stuck on speaking, the feed unlocks the speaking gear quickly.
How it works
Built for the way memory actually works.
Learn the phrase the way it's actually said.
Every challenge is a 3 to 15 second cut from a real show, news clip, or talk. You hear the rhythm, the stress, and the face behind the words.
An algorithm that times every clip.
An invisible Leitner box runs in the background. Each word comes back at the moment you're about to forget it. Fifty years of memory research, one tap.
Native audio, full speed and slow.
Every word has full-speed and slow-mo native audio. Tap once to copy the pronunciation the way a native actually says it.
Twelve native languages.
Definitions, examples, and grammar notes translate into your native language. Switch any time.
Questions
English for French speakers, answered.
Pick your CEFR level
Start where you are. Climb at your speed.
The first 500 words that unlock everything else.
Open A1 English →Hold real conversations, even if they are short.
Open A2 English →The threshold level. Where English starts working for you.
Open B1 English →Where you stop translating and start thinking in English.
Open B2 English →Sound like the person you are in your native language.
Open C1 English →Indistinguishable from a confident native, on a good day.
Open C2 English →Scan with phone