Immersive is a language learning platform built around a simple idea: you learn a new language faster when you study material you actually care about, and when the languages you already know are used to help you rather than ignored.
Immersive works with six languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, French, and English. You can learn any of them, and the app itself can be shown in any of them (your display language).
The Bridge Method
The six languages are close relatives. If you read one of them, you already hold a large part of the others: shared words, the same constructions, parallel endings. Immersive calls its approach the Bridge Method: instead of starting you from zero, it starts from the languages you know and stretches them.
You meet it throughout the app:
- Verb pages line up the same form across your languages.
- The reader points out words you can guess from a language you know, and the aids thin out as your level rises.
- The grammar of reading covers only the points where the language you are learning differs from yours.
- Your Profile tracks understanding and producing separately, because understanding runs ahead. The Progress tab says it plainly: that gap is the method working.
The cross-language comparisons are off until you turn them on (see Profile → Account); most people learn one language at a time.
Without an account
Some of Immersive’s reference material is open to everyone:
- Browse the verb tables, with example sentences and audio. See Verbs.
- Open any single form to read its example sentences and hear it spoken.
- Download ready-made decks from the Anki page. See Decks & Reviews.
With an account
Signing up unlocks the learning tools:
- Decks & Reviews: build decks of words, sentences, verb forms, and numbers, then review them in Read, Write, Listen, and Speak modes on a schedule that adapts to your memory.
- Documents: bring in a text (paste it, upload a file, or photograph a page) and read it with tap-to-translate, audio, and reading aids. Or write your own and get corrections and rewrites.
- Grammar: notes by CEFR level (A1 to C1) with exercises, and practice cards that come back for review.
- Verbs: your decks and your own sentences on every verb page, and comparisons across the languages you know.
- Coach: ask questions about whatever you are looking at.
- Vocabulary: the words and sentences you look up, collected for you and ready to become a deck.
- Profile & Progress: where you stand, your study activity, evaluations with classmates, teacher access, and your account.
Everything is free during the beta.
Creating an account
- Choose Sign up. The first screen is your language grid: for each of the six languages, mark I speak it or I’m learning it and pick your level, from A1 (“I know a few words and phrases.”) up to C2 or Native. If you are learning more than one, use Set as learning language on the one to study now. Pick a Display language, and press Continue.
- Fill in the account form (first name, last name, gender, email, and a password of at least 6 characters) and choose Create account.
- Open the confirmation email and follow its link. You cannot sign in until the address is confirmed.
- On your first sign-in, Immersive shows the language grid again, filled in, so you can check it. Press Confirm and you land on Profile → Progress, with first steps to try.
A friend who already uses Immersive can also invite you by email; see Your account.
Your language choices matter: Immersive uses the languages you know for comparisons and hints throughout the app. You can change them at any time in Profile → Account.
A first session
After the first sign-in, signing in takes you to the verb library, and the navigation gives you the whole app: Decks, Documents, Grammar, Verbs, and Profile. On a phone these sit in a tab bar at the bottom of the screen. See Navigation.
A good first fifteen minutes:
- Open your first deck. The Decks page has a Library of ready-made decks in the language you are learning, such as the most common words. Copy one to My Decks with + and start a review. See Reviewing cards.
- Read something at your level. Open Documents and pick a text from the Library, or import one of your own. Tap a word or sentence to see its translation; tap again to hear it. See Reading documents.
- Read a grammar note. Open Grammar: it suggests where to start. See Grammar.
From then on, Immersive keeps track of what you study. Cards come due on a schedule tuned to your memory, words you look up collect in your Vocabulary, and your Profile fills with evidence of what you can do.
Getting help
- Ask the Coach about anything you are studying.
- Found a mistake in a grammar note, a comparison, or a correction? Use Something wrong here? on that page; the report is sent with the content it is about.
- The Contact link in the footer of Immersive’s public pages (the home page, About, FAQ) opens a form: your name, your email, and your message. The team reads everything.
