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Immersion

KingWang   March 17th, 2013 3:14a.m.

For those of us trying to learn our target language by immersion - i.e. using it all the time, for everything, without seeing or using any of our native language - using the Skritter website currently breaks that immersion. It would be great if Chinese and Japanese versions of the website and program were available.

Obviously seeing your definitions and mnemonics while using Skritter is still going to break the immersion, but having everything else in the target language would help. (There are ways to set up spaced repetition systems that only use the target language, and they could probably be incorporated into Skritter, but of course that's a big change and a different discussion.)

(Btw I'm a new user here and this and my other post are not meant to be critical of Skritter - I'm loving it so far - just suggesting tweaks that might be nice.)

Bohan   March 17th, 2013 6:26a.m.

"immersion" is one of those words that everyone interprets differently.

learninglife   March 17th, 2013 10:23a.m.

why not just try to use the given system? it is constantly improving anyway.

if you want 100 percent immersion i wonder why you still use english?

if "total" immersion is what you ask for then go ahead and do it.

JB   March 20th, 2013 10:56p.m.

Even most native speakers of Chinese and Japanese encounter and use English on a daily basis, especially when using technology.

menglelan   March 23rd, 2013 2:13p.m.

King Wang, 我同意, 很想这里只用中文, 不用英文。

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