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I'd like to add a third theory: properly doing immersion is more expensive than single-instructor blackboard teaching. I'm not sure you can do it properly with the same resources you'd have for some other class. From personal experience taking Spanish, "to can only speak Spanish until the bell" doesn't help that much if only a few native speakers are in the room, leads to "immersive" conversation between two students are barely speaking the language.
Although maybe there is a space for "fun" language learning media to exist --- I know a at least a few people who learned Japanese to read manga and watch anime.
ETA: LLMs probably introduce ways to do authentic immersion better/cheaper, but also can automate translation in ways that abrogate language learning requirements.
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