Eleven skills for talking about food, shopping, and planning. Foundations covers partitive articles, quantity expressions, and the key verbs manger and boire; Grammar adds frequency adverbs, demonstrative adjectives, and the future proche; Food in context builds out market shopping, giving advice, and ordering in a restaurant; the Capstone integrates everything into a weekly-menu planning exchange.
Earn +10 XP per item attempted (right or wrong — the attempt is what builds memory). +50 XP for finishing a skill. +20 XP per improvement point when you retake and beat your best score. Submit at least one item daily to build a streak and unlock multipliers (×1.0 → ×2.0). Earn a ❄️ freeze token every 7-day milestone (max 3) — it auto-protects your streak if you miss a day. Click the i in the corner for full details.
Meals, proteins, vegetables, fruit, and drinks. Gender of common food nouns. The three meal words: le petit-déjeuner, le déjeuner, le dîner.
02When to use partitives vs indefinite articles. Je mange du pain / de la salade / de l'eau / des fruits. The "some / any" concept in French grammar.
03After ne… pas: du / de la / des → de / d'. Expressions: beaucoup de, peu de, un peu de, trop de, assez de — all followed by a bare noun.
04Two core food verbs. Manger is a regular -er verb with a spelling adjustment (nous mangeons). Boire is fully irregular. Both used with partitives.
Toujours, souvent, parfois, rarement, jamais. Placement after the conjugated verb. The negation ne… jamais (never). Describing daily and weekly habits.
06Ce livre, cet homme, cette semaine, ces légumes. Choosing between ce and cet before a vowel or silent h. Used in time expressions and pointing things out.
07Je vais manger / Nous allons faire les courses. Negation: Je ne vais pas… Time markers: ce soir, demain, cette semaine. Present vs future contrast.
Food shops: boulangerie, boucherie, épicerie, marché. Transactions: Je voudrais…, Ça fait combien ?, Et avec ceci ? Measurement quantities: 200 g de, une bouteille de.
09Il faut + infinitif (impersonal obligation). Tu peux + infinitif (suggestion). Tu devrais + infinitif (mild recommendation). Used for food, health, and lifestyle advice.
10Ordering: Je vais prendre… / Je voudrais… Asking for the bill: L'addition, s'il vous plaît. Giving opinions: C'est délicieux / trop cher / bien servi.
Twelve integration items built around planning a week of meals: partitives, quantities, frequency, future proche, shopping, advice, and restaurant language — every Unit 4 skill drawn on at least once.
The XP and streak system isn't here for its own sake. Each mechanic is designed to reinforce a specific learning principle: retrieval before exposure, spaced practice, and consolidation through retakes.
XP for every attempt — including wrong ones
You earn +10 XP per item, whether you get it right or wrong. The pretesting research (Pan & Chua, NUS 2026) shows that the act of attempting an answer — even an unsuccessful one — strengthens later memory.
+50 XP for completing a skill · +20 XP per improvement point on retake
Retaking a skill spaces out your encounters with the material — and spaced retrieval is one of the best-evidenced memory consolidation strategies we have.
Streak multiplier
×1.0×1.1×1.25×1.5×2.0Freeze tokens — earn ❄️ one token at every 7-day milestone (max 3). If you miss a single day, a freeze auto-protects your streak.