The story — five units, one arc
The course is structured as a single narrative across five units. You're not just learning vocabulary — you're following a story, and you're the main character.
Unit 0 — Arrival. You know almost no one. Every introduction is a small decision. The basics buy you time.
Unit 1 — Getting to know each other. The strangers around you are starting to have names. An international night mixer is coming up, and you need more than a dictionary.
Unit 2 — Daily campus life. Routine sets in, and with it the pressure of register. The semester's first formal email needs sending; the casual SMS goes to someone else entirely.
Unit 3 — The virtual Paris trip. Your French teacher gives the class a brief: plan a trip to Paris, present it in French. Everything you've built gets used here.
Unit 4 — The farewell potluck. The semester closes the way it opened — with strangers becoming something more, and food doing what it always does.
You don't have to read the units in order — pick whatever comes next in your own story.