Why the writer includes "immersion" in this sentence "...an intensive cultural immersion..."
What are the different between intensive and immersion in this "we need to develop an intensive cultural immersion program for our executives"? If I say "we need to develop an intensive cultural program for our executives", will it be taken different meaning for the readers?
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Immersion = is to be deeply and totally involved.
Intensive = is to be rigorous, deep, exhaustive, over a short period of time/for long hours.
Ex: I am fully immersed in studying spanish. Meaning, I changed all of my settings, TV channels, cell phone output, etc., totally to spanish. But that is not "intensive".
If I studied for 5 hours a day, over an 8 week period, that would be intensive. Because I am taking my time, it's not "intensive".
Hope this helps!
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'cultural immersion" implies you are developing a program about ANOTHER culture. If you just say, "cultural program" it could be for your mainstream culture (For example, in the US, it would be about American culture.)
Of course, if you are developing the program for refugees to the US, then the cultural immersion program would expose them to American culture!
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