Interactive Reading with Audio is the core immersion activity for Phases 1-2. You're reading target-language text while simultaneously listening to matching audio, and you're stopping to look things up and work through understanding.
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The most common setup: watching a TV show or video with target-language subtitles. You pause frequently, read the subtitle, try to understand the sentence, look up unknown words, then continue. You're getting three channels of input at once — visual context (what's happening on screen), text (the subtitles), and audio (what's being said).
Other setups: reading a transcript while listening to a podcast, reading a book while listening to the audiobook, or using a reader app that pairs text with audio.
Each channel helps compensate for what you don't know:
This combination makes content much more comprehensible than any single channel alone. A sentence you might not understand from audio alone becomes clear when you can also read it and see what's happening on screen.
-> Interactive Reading with Audio tutorial and tool recommendations
Interactive Reading with Audio begins in Phase 1A and remains a key activity through Phase 2.