Grammar

Grammar notes are Immersive’s reference articles: each one explains a single grammar point in the language you are learning, with examples, and most include exercises you can check on the spot. Notes you practise come back as review cards, so the grammar sticks.

Open Grammar from the navigation bar once you are signed in.

The Grammar page

  • Where you stand: “Start at A2” until you begin, then “Working at B1”, with a button to Review the grammar cards that are due or to Practice new ones. See Grammar practice.
  • Recommended (or Start here at the beginning): a short list of notes to read, practise, or review next, each marked with why: Due, Next, Ready, or Weak.
  • By level: A1 to C1, each with your mastery, the number of notes, and how many cards are due. Open a level to see its areas (“Verbs, Tenses & Conjugation”, “Pronouns”…), and an area to see its notes.
  • Search at the top finds notes by keyword; the bookmark button shows only your bookmarked notes.

Mastery

As you practise, each note, area, and level gets a mastery rating: Not started, Beginner, Developing, Intermediate, Proficient, or Fluent. It comes from how your practice cards for those notes are going.

What a note contains

  • An explanation of the point, written for learners, with example words and sentences you can tap for translation and audio.
  • The note is written in the language you are learning. When a translation exists, Read in (your language) at the end switches to it.
  • Exercises of several kinds, checked on the spot.
  • Your standing on the note, and Practice to turn it into review cards.

See Reading grammar notes.

The grammar of reading

If you already know one or more of Immersive’s six languages, Grammar can also show you where the language you are learning differs from the ones you know: the places a reader trips, and nothing else. This is the grammar of reading: the Bridge Method applied to grammar, a short reference organised by topic rather than by level.

It is off until you turn it on. In Profile → Account, under Languages, tick Use the languages I know to explain the one I’m learning and choose Save languages. From then on:

  • a Grammar of reading row (“What differs when you read French”) appears at the foot of the Grammar page, counting how many comparisons differ from your languages and how many work like them;
  • grammar notes that belong to a comparison show a door into it under Across your languages;
  • in the reader, a sentence that contains one of those constructions gets a dotted underline (see Reading documents).

See The grammar of reading.

Where to start

  1. Open Grammar.
  2. Follow Start here, or search for the point you need, or browse your level.
  3. Read the note, try its exercises, and choose Practice.

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