Études en Langue Française - English/French 7500 c. Updated

Fourth Update Notes (March, 2019): Here it is, once again: 7500 cards update. More complete than ever, but there's still quite a lot to be done. ------------------- Third Update Notes (May, 2018): 7000 cards, at last! There is still much work to be done - and certainly a lot of room for improvement -, but I have to admit I'm kind of proud of this deck. I hope these 500 additional cards will prove useful for our study of the French language. ------------------- Second Update Notes (October, 2017): 500 additional cards, correction of older cards and even less cards are lacking exemplification. It''s probably going to be a while before we reach the 7000-card update, but we'll get there eventually. See you guys then. ------------------- First Update Notes: Almost 600 cards have been added since the last time I uploaded this deck. A considerable amount of these new cards is comprised of colloquial terms and expressions (as well as a couple of very informal - sometimes borderline vulgar - ones to spice things up); Some minor corrections to old cards have been made and some (but not all) of the cards which had a pending exemplification have been provided with examples. That's that for now. I guess I'll see you guys in the 6500-card update. ------------------- Original Description: I should point out, first and foremost, that this – just as any study of a foreign language – is and forever will be a work-in-progress. I’ve always wanted to share this deck, which represents – now that I think about it – hundreds of hours of my life, in the hopes that it might help other learners and enthusiasts of the francophony, and I think I’ve finally reached a point of, say, “partial completion” of this project, which means it’s time to post it online. As the name in and of itself sort of indicates, this deck is NOT a “5000 most common words” kind of deck (although, given the sheer number of cards included, a sizeable amount of what could be called “essential” words is bound to pop up). Rather than that, it encompasses vocabulary (in the form isolated words, expressions, popular sayings, slangs, some verlan, infantile language etc.), grammar points and verb conjugations (including more complex tenses). Having said that, it is important to understand that, if you are a beginner, you would probably benefit from picking one of the many available Anki decks which are, in effect, meant to walk you through the first 1000 or 2000 French words and, in addition to that, using this deck as a complement to the former. With respect to some of the deck’s more objective features, it always shows an entry in English, and the “answer” in French. The majority of the cards pertaining to isolated words or expressions include at least one sentence serving as an example (there are lots of cards which include multiple examples, in which case distinct examples will always be separated by a “;”). Upon using this deck, you’ll undoubtedly realize that some cards do not feature an example sentence yet: this will almost always be the case of the cards which were added back when I first started using Anki, about one year and a half ago. As I said before, this is a work-in-progress. Some words include their pronunciation, presented between “/”, although I should say that this is more of an exception rather than a rule, since I had already got the hang of French pronunciation by the time I started making this deck, so I’ve just included the pronunciation of words that could prove slightly tricky. A quick note on something that might catch your eye at some point: some words/expressions will be complemented (on the front side of the card) by the phrase “as in Portuguese ‘…’”. This is due to the fact that I am from Brazil, so even though I use English as my “base language” whenever I study a foreign language, in some rare instances I find it easier to remember a certain word if I use my native language. Needless to say, feel free to delete these prompts in Portuguese in case they should get in your way. Concerning the aforementioned fact that this is not a “essential/survival-vocabulary-only” type of deck, I’ve included pretty much every and any word that proved sufficiently interesting/important to me as I pushed through the different stages of my learning process. This means that, almost inevitably, there will be words which will seem too specific for your personal needs regarding French. As always, feel free to remove any cards you deem useless. My personal approach/mindset was “if I know this word in English, I want to learn it in French” (this obviously boils down to personal choice). Feel free to give me your personal views concerning this deck. Good criticism is always welcome, for it allows us to improve ourselves and the things we do. I’ll enumerate my deck’s weak spots (i.e: things in which I’ve already seen some room for improvement): I- Visually speaking, my deck doesn’t look particularly sexy (let’s call it austere, to put it mildly). I simply don’t know how to use some of Anki’s more advanced tools which help create some more professional-looking cards. I’ve seen some amazing decks out there, so if anyone wants to give me a hand, it’d be greatly appreciated; II- I’d like to put examples in every card, but I don’t have the time to do so right now; III- Unfortunately, I was already halfway through the creation of this deck when I realized that, in French, two-part punctuation marks such as “!” or “?” are followed by a space (seriously, French people?). For that reason, I just said “eff it!” and kept on not adding a space after these symbols like it was nobody’s business(a minor thing, but it might piss somebody off just the same); IV- I have no idea whether the cards will be shown in the same order in which they were added. If that should be the case, things will tend to get more complex as you work your way through this deck. But I do think this thing could be massively improved by trying to organize words, grammar points and conjugation patterns in a reasonable, orderly fashion (even though that would be a mammoth task, no doubt). I guess that’s around about it. I also have similar decks for Spanish and Italian, which will be shared once I judge them complete enough for doing so. Feel free to use this deck as you see fit, just don’t forget to give credit where credit is due ;). TL;DR version: this is an English-French deck which comprehends vocabulary (including slangs, sayings and such), grammar and conjugation for learners of French. I hope it helps you as much as it has helped me.