IMMERSE insights:
- The IMMERSE Learning Path organizes your learning and gives you an overview of the skills you’ll master on your path to Spanish, English, or French fluency.
- Check your Learning Path frequently to see how far you’ve already come and what you should focus on next.
- Earn points and unlock stamps as you progress through each fluency level.
What is the IMMERSE Learning Path?
The Learning Path is a feature designed to show the building blocks of language proficiency, help you see how far you’ve already come and decide what to learn next, and reward you with stamps to commemorate your progress.
What does it mean to know a language?
Your language proficiency comes down to what you can accomplish using the language.
Do you know how to book an appointment with your doctor? Can you ask for directions to the library? How well can you communicate your feelings about a change of plans?
IMMERSE lessons and activities are based on teaching you the specific skills necessary to complete tasks like these.
These communication tasks are organized into nine communication outcomes, or units:
Getting Things Done, for instance, encompasses the language skills needed for negotiating and collaborating on the completion of tasks. Lessons, guided conversations, and other practice activities in this unit help learners develop skills like offering suggestions, making requests, and giving instructions.
Whether you’re taking Spanish classes, English classes, or French classes with IMMERSE, you’ll be learning to accomplish these communication tasks.
The IMMERSE Learning path helps you become a well-rounded speaker while still giving you the flexibility to prioritize the communication tasks you learn first.
It provides a simple overview of the progress you’ve made in each of the nine units, letting you see which ones you’re close to mastering and which ones still need more attention.
How does the Learning Path help you learn a language?
The first thing you’ll see when you click on your Learning Path is an overview of the nine units. If there’s a unit that’s lower than the others, you’ll see a suggestion to work on that one. This helps you decide what to focus on next if you’re not sure.
After you choose a unit, clicking on it will show you a list of the communication tasks related to that category. These communication tasks are appropriate for your level.
You’ll see the same nine units at each level in IMMERSE, but you’ll notice that the communication tasks associated with the unit become increasingly more sophisticated as you move up through the levels.
Once you’ve decided on a communication task, you can click to see the IMMERSE learning opportunities available to help you master it.
You can practice on your own by building relevant vocabulary, improving your pronunciation while engaging in the pronunciation task, or engaging in relevant Guided Conversations with an AI conversation partner. You can also book a live lesson to learn from one of our highly experienced, friendly language instructors.
Your IMMERSE membership gives you unlimited access to all of these learning opportunities, and the more you practice the faster you’ll reach fluency!
How does the Learning Path help you understand your progress?
IMMERSE is designed to let you choose what to learn next so you can focus on the skills you need right now. However, it’s important to work on all nine units if you want to become a well rounded Spanish, French, or English speaker.
The IMMERSE Learning Path lets you see at a glance how much progress you’ve made in each unit by checking the Unit Progress bars.
When you’ve taken 80% of the lessons available at your level, you’ll be prompted to take an assessment to see if you’re ready to move on to the next fluency level. You’re welcome to stay and complete all the lessons at your current level, but if there are a handful of communication tasks that just don’t seem relevant to your language learning goals, you’re free to move on.
Note that there are more lessons at the higher fluency levels because the number of communication tasks you are ready to learn increases as your language skills progress.
You’ll accumulate points for completing lessons and AI conversations. Each lesson earns you 5 points the first time you complete it (you’re welcome to take each class as many times as you like, but you’ll only earn points the first time). AI conversations are worth 1 point the first time you do them.
These points will earn you beautiful stamps that you can view by clicking on your profile picture in the Home room. Every time you complete a unit at your current fluency level, you unlock a new stamp to commemorate your progress on your language learning journey. Each stamp is a work of art relevant to the unit you earned it in, and you’ll notice how they transform as you progress through the fluency levels.
Your key to becoming a well-rounded speaker
First and foremost, language is a tool for communication. IMMERSE ensures you’ll master all the components of fluent communication so you can become a well-rounded, confident speaker of English, French or Spanish.
The Learning Path ties all your learning opportunities together so you can see the big picture and monitor your progress throughout your language learning journey.
IMMERSE is what effective language learning is all about!