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inmersión

immersion

noun een-mehr-SYOHN Rare
Mind & Emotions Mental States

Also means

submersion

Usage Note

Inmersión is widely used in educational contexts to describe language-immersion programmes (programas de inmersión lingüística), and in diving or technical contexts for submersion underwater. The phrase en inmersión describes a submarine or diver that is submerged. Do not confuse with sumersión, which is more specifically physical sinking; inmersión covers both literal and figurative total engagement.

Examples

"La inmersión total aceleró su aprendizaje del idioma."

Natural Translation

Total immersion accelerated her language learning.

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