When I was in high school, I took for years of Mandarin Chinese only to forget it all after I graduated, because I never had any experience using it. I never got to use it anywhere. Fast forward a year ago, and I got to spend 4 months in Taiwan, and in those 4 months I learned more than what I did in 4 years.
The reason for this is because I had to use it everyday, but more importantly I got tons, and tons of experience actually using the language; not only that I had a ton of fun having these adventures and actually using and living the language I was learning.
Everyone knows the best way to learn a foreign language is through immersion and fun. It occurred to me one day, when I was eating at a Korean restaurant for the 4th time in one week, that I actually got a ton of practice in my Korean. That's when it hit me, California is such a diverse state, with tons of ethnic enclaves, and diversity, I could get immersion and go on adventures without having to buy an expensive plane ticket.
Immersive is a supplement to any language learning tool people are using, and works to help cement what you learn, by giving you fun missions in your area, and locations you can go to, to use the language, eat the food, and experience the cultures, all while having an adventure. The product is for anyone who has struggled to learn a new language or even just go on an adventure. Some of cool key features are the entire system is gamified, users are awarded points and can level up based on them just having fun and going out there; another cool feature is its ability to point people to where all the yummy, delicious foods are, as well as promoting local businesses, and promoting ethnic diversity and culture.
Some of the features I couldn't finish during the hackathon, but that I think are worth mentioning, is the idea of using virtual reality to demo the areas you can go to, and actually use virtual reality to help learn language learning; I didn't get my hands on the Oculus Rift this time, but I'd love to try it next time.
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