When Scheduling Conflicts Undermine Learning
Traditional immersion providers like Berlitz are constrained by a fundamental problem:
Their method relies on coordinating trainer schedules with learner availability.
Face-to-face classes create scheduling bottlenecks, and even online classes force busy professionals to adapt their schedules to trainer time slots.
Even Berlitz’s newer tech offerings, Flex and CyberTeachers, don’t fully break free from this live-teacher-first model. Flex still requires learners to complete scheduled coaching sessions for conversational practice, and CyberTeachers provides asynchronous content but doesn’t embed real-time speaking practice directly into the platform.
These tools merely supplement a system where real immersion still depends on scheduling instructors, rather than embedding speaking practice directly into the platform.
This limitation may have made sense years ago.
But with today’s technology, immersion can and should be an on-demand capability.
IMMERSE: Immersion Built Into the Platform
IMMERSE was designed specifically to solve the scheduling and scalability problems that traditional platforms don't address. Rather than scheduling immersion around human availability, we built it directly into the learning experience.
Truly Immersive Environments
Language immersion that takes place in classrooms or video calls only immerses learners in the language itself, without the surrounding context that makes immersion such a powerful learning tool to begin with.
IMMERSE places learners inside fully interactive 3D environments. In our fully immersive virtual bank scene, for instance, employees don't just study complex grammar and memorize financial vocabulary. They learn these concepts with a live trainer and then role play clients meeting with financial advisors to discuss investment portfolio concerns, explore loan qualifications, and navigate complex financial decisions using sophisticated language structures and accurate terminology.
This embodied learning creates muscle memory and contextual associations that help language stick. When employees eventually need these skills at work, they've already become comfortable using them in a realistic and safe practice environment.
The Four Layers of Immersion
IMMERSE learners experience immersion in four distinct, interconnected ways:
Live Classes
Fully immersive 3D environments accessible through desktop or VR headset, where learners engage in dynamic, spatially interactive roleplays with expert instructors and peers.
Organizations can choose open community classes for flexibility or closed cohorts for structured team-based learning. Every session is designed by curriculum experts to deliver impactful learning experiences.
AI-Driven Lessons
Adaptive, interactive lessons guided by intelligent AI tutors. Learners engage naturally with the tutors, asking questions, practicing responses, and building skills in real time. These lessons are designed by curriculum experts to deliver structured, progressive learning accessible from desktop, VR headset, or mobile.
AI Practice Tools
On-demand roleplays and spontaneous conversations with Community Avatars that remember past interactions. Developed by curriculum experts to reinforce specific language skills, these tools can be accessed anytime without waiting for live instruction.
Live Community Meetups
Global gatherings in immersive 3D spaces like our bowling alley or networking space, where learners practice using language socially and build confidence through authentic interactions with peers.
These four layers create an ecosystem where immersion is always available, whether learners have five minutes on their phone or forty minutes on their computer.
No More Scheduling Bottlenecks
Unlike Berlitz, which treats AI as an add-on just for practice, IMMERSE integrates AI directly into the core learning process.
Our AI tutors deliver fully immersive interactive instruction, not just supplemental practice. Learners progress through structured language lessons designed by expert curriculum designers, where they learn new langauge concepts, ask questions, engage in real conversations, and get personalized feedback.
This makes it possible to scale immersive language training without the scheduling bottlenecks that constrain traditional providers.
Research-Validated Results
Independent studies show IMMERSE learners achieve measurable gains in fluency and confidence.
- 156% increase in speaking (University of Arkansas)
- 54% better speaking performance in the real world (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- 56% more effective than traditional online tutoring (University of California Santa Barbara)
- 86% of Microsoft employees reported increased confidence using English at work
These results are driven by consistent, on-demand immersion that eliminates scheduling barriers.
Scalable Immersion for Global Teams
Unlike Berlitz, IMMERSE makes immersive practice as accessible as checking email, helping learners build real workplace communication skills faster and more effectively.
When language training scales beyond instructor schedules, organizations see:
Global Team Flexibility
Busy professionals can access immersive training anytime—before a client call, during a lunch break, or after hours—without needing to rearrange their calendars.
Accelerated Learning
Unlimited learning and practice opportunities drive faster skill development without scheduling delays.
Higher Engagement
IMMERSE learners average 3.67 classes per week with 4.9/5 satisfaction ratings.
The Future of Corporate Language Training
Language training is no longer a forced choice between the effectiveness of immersion and the convenience and flexibility of asynchronous learning.
IMMERSE has proven that truly effective language training happens when learners can access authentic practice every time they're ready to learn, not just when instructors are available.
For global organizations, this shift from scheduled learning to integrated capability isn't just more convenient, it's what finally makes language training work at scale.
