What counts as A1 vocabulary
A1 is the first level of the CEFR, and it is defined by situations rather than by grammar: introducing yourself, ordering in a café, asking where the station is, describing your family. The list of words that goes with it is short enough to learn in a few months, and specific enough that guessing from English lets you down. Une librairie is a bookshop, and the library is la bibliothèque.
The paid deck behind this page holds 491 cards across 23 topics. The 25 here are hand-picked: the false friends and the words you cannot guess from English, the ones actually worth memorising rather than the easy cognates. It is enough to study with for a few weeks before you decide whether the rest is worth $15.
How to work through the 25 cards
Read the English, say the French out loud, then flip. Guessing and getting it wrong is what makes a word stick, so resist flipping early. The card is not a reading exercise.
Use the Listen button on the French side. That audio is Camille's own French voice, not your browser's speech engine, and at A1 that difference matters: you are still building the sounds of the language, and a synthetic English accent reading French will teach you the wrong ones.
Answer honestly. Know it pushes a card further away on a widening schedule, 1 day, then 2, 4, 8, 16, 32. Still learning brings it straight back to the front. Ten minutes a day will beat an hour on Sunday, because the schedule only works if you come back.
Where these words turn up in the DELF A1 and the TCF
The DELF A1 has four papers of 25 points each, and all four draw on this same everyday vocabulary. Le prénom belongs to the identity form in the writing paper. L'addition and la boucherie run through the shopping and restaurant role-plays of the oral. Le petit déjeuner compris is booking-a-room language, which is a standard reading text.
Soixante-dix is where the listening paper catches people out, because prices, phone numbers and times are read at full speed and the French seventy is built out of sixty and ten. It is on this list for exactly that reason.