Some Canvas users who are teaching languages have identified an issue when text is added to pages in Canvas with a mix of languages. For instance, if you wrote an introductory sentence in French and then continued in English below it. Immersive Reader cannot distinguish the change in language and often reads the paragraph in English with a French accent

The workaround for this is to include the language tag in the HTML content to help Immersive Reader to distinguish between the two languages. The language tag identifies the language to be used for the sentence or paragraph that follows. E.g. "lang=en" for English or "lang=fr" for French.

Click the icon underneath the text editor to open the HTML view of the page. Insert the lang tags, as shown below, where necessary in the text.


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 You can help to identify the correct language tag to use by checking this lookup app