A New York City deli or bodega — the corner store that sells everything from coffee to sandwiches to MetroCards. Open 24 hours. This is where New York begins for most people every morning.
Start lesson one →170 lessons across six levels. Level 1 is free forever, the whole of it; Savor+ opens the rest. Within a level, start anywhere.
Your first words: greeting someone, asking what things cost, finding the street you want, and enough food vocabulary to order without pointing.
The past tense, and opinions. You start saying what happened and what you made of it — comparing two dishes, describing a wine, disagreeing without being rude.
Where the grammar turns real: the imperfect, the subjunctive, relative pronouns and the conditional. Enough machinery to tell a story properly and write your first review.
Nuance and the professional register. Discourse markers, the art of concession and emphasis, the business lunch and the gala — and the literary tenses underneath them.
Writing and argument. Food journalism, criticism, the memoir and the keynote, in the literary registers those are actually written in.
Your own voice. Literary exegesis, scholarly prose, diplomatic protocol and the philosophical essay, ending on a synthesis that is yours.