échec

Meaning

failure

Example

After this failure, he preferred to change his profession completely.

More words at level B1

• énergie energy
• évident obvious, evident
• éviter to avoid
• accepter to accept
• actuel current, present
• améliorer to improve
• augmenter to increase, to raise
• avantage advantage, benefit

How to learn a word, not just look it up

• How spaced repetition works

  Memory lets a word go along a curve. Spaced repetition puts the next review just before the word slips, so every repeat buys more time than the one before it.

• Learning Lithuanian as an English speaker

  Seven cases, no shared vocabulary and a stress mark nobody writes down. What is genuinely hard about Lithuanian for an English speaker, what is easier than advertised, and the order that works.