Documents

Documents are how you work with real texts in Immersive: news articles, stories, notes from class, anything. Bring a text in and the reader turns it into a study surface: tap to translate, tap to listen, with aids that help you understand more than you thought you could. Or start from a blank page and write, with corrections and rewrites on demand.

Reading

Create a document by pasting text or importing a file (text, Markdown, PDF, or a photo of a page), and Immersive splits it into words and sentences you can tap:

  • Tap a word or sentence to see its translation; tap again to hear it read aloud.
  • Reading aids mark the places worth a hint: words you can guess from a language you know, words that are safe to skip, and words whose sound is clearer than their spelling.
  • Read to me plays the document aloud while the current sentence is highlighted, at normal or slow speed.

Everything you look up collects in your Vocabulary.

See Reading documents.

Writing

The editor gives you a clean page and help when you ask for it:

  • A topic if you need an idea.
  • The Coach button for a short review of your text: what works and what to improve.
  • Correct for corrections with explanations, other ways to say it, and a CEFR estimate of your writing, which you can apply to the document.
  • Rewrite and Tone to see a passage one level above your own, or your draft rewritten for a situation (“a formal email to my landlord”).

See Writing documents.

The Library

The Documents page also shows the Library: texts provided by Immersive, most with a level and word count, so there is always something to read. The page shows a few titles; Browse all opens the whole Library, which includes texts in all six languages. Reading a Library document works like reading your own; if you start writing in one, you get your own copy and the original stays as it is.

The document list

The Documents page lists documents in the language you are learning, with a search box for titles. Each row shows the title’s translation, the level, and the word count. The bookmark icon on a document marks it, and the bookmark button at the top of the page shows only your bookmarked documents.

To create a document, choose + (Create a new document). The document is in the language you are learning at the time.

Documents keep an edit history: the previous version is saved before each edit, import, applied correction, or restore, and can be compared and restored. See Writing documents.

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