diff --git a/starting/index.md b/starting/index.md
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--- a/starting/index.md
+++ b/starting/index.md
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ To teach you things that can only be learned by doing.
     any more than you can learn to ride a bike
     by watching the Tour de France on TV.
 
-To give you a change to apply things you learned in earlier courses,
+To give you a chance to apply things you learned in earlier courses,
 :   i.e.,
     to demonstrate that trees, pointers, joins, and semaphores
     are actually good for something.