#memrise

[ruhua-langblr]

why is memrise not a good language learning app? sorry if it sounds rude, only a genuine question. you said that you would explain in another post (talking abt the "duolingo sucks" post tags btw) and i didnt see anything abt it :(

Not rude at all! I addressed it a little bit in this ask, but I never did fully elaborate.

The short version is that the problems with Duolingo (cutting community features and shifting more on AI) are also happening with Memrise.

Longer version is that one of the best features of Memrise imho was the community courses. Especially since Quizlet has monetized many features, it seemed to fill that niche very well. The base courses used real audio and video, which is a big upgrade from DL. Along with the removal of community courses, the forums were also removed. This disconnects users from not just each other, but also from having a public method to address the company. I found the official Memrise explanations for these decisions to be unsatisfying. Fortunately for many users, someone in the Memrise community has been uploading community courses to a new site—mylittlewordland! No app atm, and very bare bones, but still functional! Definitely worth checking out.

I created that post as a way to give people easy alternatives to switch to, and while the main courses of Memrise are better than DL, I feel that it would become yet another dead end of corporate greed. I wouldn't be surprised if any of the apps I did recommend also eventually go down this path—some are in the early stages for sure. Ultimately, I decided to recommend what seemed like the easiest alternatives to switch to as people are hesitant to make changes to something that has become a part of their routine.

I want to make another post of what I think are the most helpful resources for language learning, but it will be not be a list of easy gamified 5-minute lessons. I don't fault anyone for wanting to learn that way—not everyone is serious about wanting to achieve fluency and that's fine. However, I think there should be a discussion about how limited and limiting the "app experience" is.

#langblr #language learning apps #Memrise #duolingo #i hope this is coherent as I’m running on little sleep and a headache

[chinesekoreanandmore]

Vocabulary List #58

夕 [xī] - evening

名 [míng] - name

千 [qiān] - a thousand

舌 [shé] - tongue

不 [bù] - no; not

的 [de] - belonging to

大 [dà] - big

又 [yòu] - again

粥 [zhōu] - congee

茶 [chá] - tea

橙子 [chéngzi] - orange (the fruit)

子 [zi] - child; noun suffix

了 [le] - completed action marker

错了 [cuòle] - wrong

对了 [duìle] - correct; oh, by the way...

土 [tŭ] - earth; dust

#langblr #language #languages #chinese #chinese langblr #learn chinese #learning chinese #vocabulary list #vocab list #chinese vocab list #memrise

[askeataiho]

So frustrating that memrise is apparently removing community courses for good soon. I've spent hundreds of hours creating courses, one of which has had over 1,000 users, and a few that are just for me, and I've spent thousands of hours studying there.

I've exported everything I'm studying or have studying to anki. But man, I've been here before (when smart.fm got rid of user courses like a decade ago), and anki just isn't it. It's fine for basic vocab, but I've stared at the instruction for how to put pictures/videos/audio back in for ages and still not getting it (will try later when brain not fried.) Adding new cards is more of a pain. Massive courses (which was a lot of my courses) which I often reviewed in parts are more of a pain too - I think there is a way to separate them out but I haven't figured it out yet either.

Especially frustrating because I've just been getting into using it more again after not for awhile - partly because it's basically the only place to study Slovenian, and partly because I'd been working on a course for my profession with the idea I'd use it to review for the rest of my career.

#I'll probably give that my little word land site a try at some point but uhg #memrise #probably will study Slovenian and Geography on there until they delete it in a few months #have moved my personal professional study over to Anki and started working on it there already

[kat-enkatt]

hey, i’m learning italian and does anyone know the difference between ciao and salve? arent they both just hello? help me

#duolingo #langblr #language #language stuff #italy #italian #memrise #ciao #salve

[salvadorbonaparte]

Memrise has a peculiar bug atm

#langblr #memrise

[efurutravel]

I'm back :3

Hello~! I've been on hiatus for a bit over a year now. A lot has changed and I am almost graduated with my masters. But, I want to get back into studying Japanese (and French) again. I will review first via memrise. This is the schedule I have for my decks so far. This is the first deck (N2 Vocab) I'll be starting with if anyone else would like to do it together!

#learn japanese #japanese #japanese study #japanese studyblr #japanese langblr #memrise #efurutravel

[morgan-the-lonely-brick]

on the note of Duolingo becoming considerably worse, I would love everyone to look up Memrise. I'm studying a chinese course on there and it's honestly much better than Duo. It is available both on pc and as a phone app, but i find the pc version better.

It provides videos of native speakers saying the words + several audio versions + the ability to write out pinyin + it teaches hanzi better + it often shows what parts the hanzi is made up of and overall is a lot more user-friendly imo. It doesn't teach you to write hanzi, since it'd be hard to do on pc, but neither does Duo, so.

It also teaches you stuff that's a wee bit more useful xDD

#duolingo #languages #learning languages #memrise #learning chinese

[bngrc]

I started studying on Memrise and I really like it so far.

The video examples are great. I really like that I get to see people's facial expressions as they're speaking the example sentences.

It focuses much more heavily on colloquial spoken Mandarin than any of the other apps/courses I've tried.

I was expecting to skip all the beginner level stuff and jump straight to upper intermediate, but it turns out that even at the beginner level there are a lot of colloquial expressions I'm unfamiliar with.

It's not like the beginner content is incomprehensible. I recognize all the individual words in the example expressions. It's not hard to figure out what the expressions mean based on my understanding of the individual words.

But knowing all the individual vocabulary words isn't enough to carry on a rapid conversation in realtime.

I think this app will help me finally get over my listening comprehension plateau, since it focuses on teaching learners to recognize complete expressions and short sentences as a whole.

.

I went ahead and bought a lifetime plan. Early Christmas present to myself. Shockingly affordable for a one time payment, and I even found a 15% off coupon with a quick websearch for: "memrise discount code"

#memrise review #memrise

[lindwurmkai]

Two weeks of speedrunning Memrise community courses later, I certainly feel like I am making the most of this!! (There was a day where I did it shortly before midnight and didn't manage to finish going through all my courses, that's why the 3 at the top only have a 4-day streak)

I found a way to download these and imperfectly import them into Anki, so I did that with the Zhuyin/Bopomofo course once I had finished it. Today I'll do the same with the Chengyu course since I just finished it as well, and then I'll have to fiddle with those cards a bit before they're usable.

It feels weird to know these could be taken away from me any day without warning, but at least I am backing up the ones I finish? The IPA one probably won't take me that much longer, and perhaps I'll manage the shorter Polish course as well.

As for anything else, I'm counting on a bunch of people who are trying to transfer as many Memrise courses as possible to other websites. Fingers crossed that'll work out.

#i mean i don't really NEED the HSK4 courses since they're just supplementary materials to me #but they do teach a lot of stuff that SuperChinese doesn't! #namely all the radicals and individual characters that make up the words in the HSK4 vocabulary #which is very helpful #memrise #out of the common pathways of men

[thisismyobsessionnow]

Love that it's giving me words I recognize, but why is this one of the first things this app teaches me? Do you guys talk a lot about drafts and drafty places?

#joker out #slovenian #memrise #delighted but confused

[st4r-t3ars]

Memrise which is a language learning app has an option to learn simple Mando’a which is the language Mandalorians and sometimes clones speak

#learning fictional languages that I’ll never use outside fan fiction #mando’a #star wars languages #star wars mandalorian #memrise #this is so fun though #learning fictional languages #that should be a tag

[davidboles]

Learning Italian Lifetime Immersion Style

For the past 60 days, I have been intensively studying the Italian language. I want to learn Italian in order to better serve our ASL Opera project since 50% of the most popular operas were written in Italian (25% were written in German, and 15% were written in French). I understand modern Italian isn’t the same as “original opera Italian” — but learning something new only helps deepen the…

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#anki #asl #asl opera #babbel #chatgpt #cloze #clozemaster #drops #e4e4e4 #edx #fluency #immersion #italian #lingodeer #lingopie #memrise #opera #opera project #rosetta stone

[artsypotat]

Overly competitive on Duolingo??

LIKE I've just finished my hour-long Duolingo session and I'm realizing I'm super competitive with these Spanish people learning English on the leagues and I think that's really funny, like I'm grinding hundreds of XP past my daily goal, and I'm wondering where the freak does that motivation come from?? cause it takes immense control to get me revising for tests that actually matter and yet this silly green bird languages app got me powering at Welsh like my life depends on it??

#i got duolingo #to study french #and yet #i only do welsh #??? kinda #what am i doing #oh well #duolingo #language #learning #competitive #welsh language #french #advancing to the next league is my only goal in life rn #idk what else to tag #memrise #haha what

[calystarose]

Memrise trying to sneak some Korean into my Chinese course lol

#memrise #language learning #chinese #mandarin #korean

[phrear]

#♥ #memrise

[a-curious-studyblr]

3/1/23 - Happy new year! One of my main goals is to get back to language learning, I really miss having hundred-day streaks on memrise and duolingo. I've hit a 5 days streak for Spanish on duolingo and memrise! Today I also challenged myself to write a full page in French in my language journal

#langblr #studyblr #spanish #french #language journal #memrise #my posts