Decks & Reviews

Decks are where memorising happens in Immersive. A deck is a collection of cards (words, sentences, verb forms, or numbers), and reviewing a deck shows you each card at the moment you are about to forget it, using spaced repetition that adapts to your memory (the FSRS schedule, the same family of scheduling used by modern Anki).

What a deck holds

You can add four kinds of cards yourself:

  • Word cards: a word, its translation, and optionally an example sentence.
  • Sentence cards: a full sentence with its translation.
  • Verb cards: the verbs and tenses you choose, either one card per person or a whole tense table per card.
  • Number cards: numbers written out in the language you are learning.

Cards come from many places: typed in by hand, imported from a spreadsheet, added from the words you saved in your Vocabulary, copied with a Library or public deck, or added from the reader and from verb pages with Add to a deck.

Immersive also fills three decks for you as you study. They appear in My Decks like any other:

  • From reading (language): a card each time you reveal a guessable word in the reader. See Reading documents.
  • Bridge comparisons (language): cards you add with Add a comparison card on a verb form page. See Working with verbs.
  • Grammar practice (language): cards from the grammar notes you practise. See Grammar practice.

How reviewing works

Each card is scheduled on its own. When you review a card, it is graded Again, Hard, Good, or Easy, and the schedule adjusts: cards you find easy move further into the future, cards you miss come back quickly. Over time your review minutes go to the material that needs them.

You can review in four modes (Read, Write, Listen, and Speak), so the same deck trains recognition, spelling, listening, and speaking. See Reviewing cards.

The Decks page

Opening Decks shows:

  • Library: ready-made decks in the language you are learning, folded closed until you open it. Copy one to My Decks with its + button.
  • My Decks: your decks and folders, with columns showing how many cards are New, in Learning, and Due.
  • Three buttons at the top: the clock opens your Review history, the bookmark shows only your bookmarked decks, and + creates a new deck.

Anki

If you also use Anki:

  • Export to Anki on one of your decks prepares an Anki file (.apkg) and emails it to you. To export a Library deck, copy it to My Decks first.
  • The Anki page (linked in the footer of Immersive’s public pages) offers ready-made Anki decks for download. Signed in, you download directly. Without an account, you enter your email address to download; Immersive then also sends you its free Bridge Method email course, five short lessons, which you can unsubscribe from at any time.

In this section

  • Creating decks: build a deck and fill it with cards.
  • Reviewing cards: the review session, the four modes, grading, and daily limits.
  • Managing decks: the Library, folders, tags, bookmarks, copying, exporting, and deleting.