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Meaning, Sound,
Spelling.

Stories, Speech
Production.

Trace Demo

Lumière diagnoses French word by word: what you know, what you almost know, and which trace needs repair next.

See the hidden trace of your French.

Instead of treating vocabulary as one score, Lumière separates memory into five traces: meaning, sound, spelling, sentence use, and production.

Signal first. Repetition only when it repairs something.

Our method
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Lumière at a Glance.

5 traces
meaning, sound, spelling, sentence use, production.

MeaningSoundSpellingSentencesProductionRepair
Meaning
Sound
Spelling
Sentence use
Production
Pronunciation
Listening
Stories
Patterns
Repair
Review
Progress

5,000 words
frequency-ranked French vocabulary.

20,000 audio cues
normal, slow, word, and sentence-level listening.

2,561 confusable pairs
minimal pairs and false-friend repair.

MeaningSoundSpellingSentencesProductionRepair

Stories
guided reading, dictation, cloze, and translation.

Progress
daily briefing, repair queue, and skill-state map.

Pattern Lab
grammar as retrievable construction traces.

5 traces
meaning, sound, spelling, sentence use, production.

MeaningSoundSpellingSentencesProductionRepair
Meaning
Sound
Spelling
Sentence use
Production
Pronunciation
Listening
Stories
Patterns
Repair
Review
Progress

5,000 words
frequency-ranked French vocabulary.

20,000 audio cues
normal, slow, word, and sentence-level listening.

2,561 confusable pairs
minimal pairs and false-friend repair.

MeaningSoundSpellingSentencesProductionRepair

Stories
guided reading, dictation, cloze, and translation.

Progress
daily briefing, repair queue, and skill-state map.

Pattern Lab
grammar as retrievable construction traces.

Our method.

A simple philosophy:

a word is not one memory.

Knowing a French word means recognizing its meaning, hearing it clearly, spelling it, using it in a sentence, and producing it when needed. Lumière trains each trace separately.

Repair over repetition.

practice what actually failed.

When a learner misses a task, Lumière classifies the failure and sends the next repair: sound contrast, spelling recall, cloze, translation, pronunciation, or sentence use.

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Repair