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Lessons at a chalkboard, level by level

A course that runs A1 to C1, written one step at a time as you take it. Your teacher works at a board, builds her examples out of your own mistakes, and never announces what's coming.

A study at dusk: a blackboard on an easel, a lamp, and an open notebook.

Conversations teach you a great deal and no particular order. A course is the other half: somebody deciding what comes before what.

What changed

Lessons is a course with levels now — A1 through C1 — each holding a set of lessons chosen for the language you're learning. You work down them.

A lesson happens at a chalkboard. Your teacher writes one idea on it at a time and talks you through it, and the examples she uses are built from mistakes she's actually watched you make rather than from a textbook. Then she asks you something about it.

Written as you take it

Each step is written when you reach it, not in advance. That has a real consequence: a lesson can follow what you did two steps ago. Get the instrumental case wrong in the first exercise and the third one is about that.

It also means a lesson never tells you what it's about to teach you. You find out by doing it — which is how a good teacher works, and a syllabus doesn't.

It keeps your place

Leave in the middle of a lesson, close the tab, come back on a phone two days later: it opens where you left it, on the same step.