 Welcome to a truly exploratory online course. Let us assume the following situation. You are stranded within a linguistically previously unexplored territory and you want to explore the language to which you are exposed. This is the classical fieldwork situation. A typical empirical approach in the sense of Joseph Greenberg and Edward Sapir. By means of interaction with a native speaker who neither speaks nor understands your language, you want to find out as many details about his or her language as possible. In a real fieldwork situation, you collect your data in various live meetings with the native speaker. On the Virtual Linguistics Campus, we do it online by means of a virtual speaker in various virtual settings where you can retrieve and transcribe the data via mouse click. So let us now look at the VLC Fieldwork course, VLC 401 Linguistic Fieldwork Welch. Like all fieldwork courses, VLC 401 starts with a general description and the usual preliminaries that provide a general overview of the course including the prerequisites. The first content unit is theoretical and of utmost importance for all fieldwork activities. It discusses some general aspects of the language in focus and introduces underlying methodology from phonetics to syntax and that supplies you with all linguistic analysis methods required for the exploratory part of the course. The core of the course are the fieldwork units, each with an exploratory part, a so-called virtual scene and dedicated to a particular topic. The first scene deals with simple objects. In our virtual interview room, you find the native speaker and a number of clickable objects with their audio and orthographic representation. Sawer, Schilf, Pluch. Your task is to transcribe what you hear as carefully as possible in order to set up a first sound system of the language in focus. Further scenes deal with number, with adjectives, for example the colours, with locative relationships and the organisation of ad-positional phrases and even with sentences that are acted out by a second native speaker. Beginning with the second explorative unit, each unit starts with a hypothesis section where the previous assumptions and speculations are not only summarised but are also judged by the native speaker. The units or topics in this course are activated in a successive fashion. That is, in contrast to all other VLC courses, you cannot access the units all at once but only successively. This guarantees that students first build their hypotheses before they see the solutions in the next unit. For example, the unit number can only be accessed if two previous activities are completed and the subsequent unit adjectives is only available if vocabulary test. One is passed successfully and the exploration activity of the previous unit was marked as successful. But don't worry, the vocabulary mastery test where you can earn a digital badge is easy to manage. In each unit you find a complete list of vocabulary items that have been collected up to this point. Here you can practice and prepare yourself for the test. The VLC fieldwork courses are true online courses. They do not involve any face-to-face tuition. Everything should be self-explanatory. However, it is recommended to use the repository forum in the class preliminaries to discuss questions with your fellow participants or even the social media. And on top of that, each fieldwork course has its customised workbook. It can be accessed or downloaded from the preliminary section and summarises the main aspects of each unit in print. But even more importantly, it contains dozens of tables and charts where you can drop your data. Last but not least, the course is certified. Beyond the digital badges that you can obtain via the mastery tests, each fieldwork class is certified with a statement of accomplishment that lists the content and specifies the workload in hours. And as usual, course enrollment is simple. You have to create your free VLC account first and then self-enroll to your fieldwork class by clicking on the course tile. That's it. And in the course, you will be welcomed by the native speaker. So that's it. See you on the Virtual Linguistics Campus.