EPTMemrise: Learning languages with a game approach - Page 23
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Purity
Canada13 Posts
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sqwert
United States781 Posts
edit: i have TL- now | ||
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mcgriddle
United States253 Posts
I'm loving this website. I want to learn korean, chinese, and japanese as well, but since I already learned a lot of spanish in school, is it best to get relatively fluent in one first, before starting to learn a second? Sorry if this has already been asked. Edit: Read through the founder's answers and it sounds like if the languages are very different than it is ok, but I think I'd still rather get one language somewhat down. | ||
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OhNoItsTheMunch
United States96 Posts
Been enjoying this for increasing mandarin vocabulary . Some words are a little bit off but within acceptable tolerance. Feel free to high five. | ||
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Kinetik_Inferno
United States1431 Posts
I do have one question though, I just finished the french demo and want to progress more through the language. I'm a complete beginner to french, but under "French" there's no wordlist that screams, "Just finished the demo? this one's next!" so, is there one I'm simply not seeing or is there one obscured under a discrete name? | ||
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Cuddle
Sweden1345 Posts
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michielbrands
Netherlands1146 Posts
 Would be so handy when I am on holiday to French and I could actually communicate with the French  Wish there was a site like these, but then where you also could make complete phrases, so you would get more insight | ||
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REDBLUEGREEN
Germany1903 Posts
The community aspect of it is really motivating though. | ||
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Turbogangsta
Australia319 Posts
anyone know where i can look to find out how to pronounce norwiegen words? im very shakey with the silencing of all these letters and conditional sounds all in all im very impressed with this site thanks for informing =] | ||
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Asday
United Kingdom388 Posts
With the Japanese one I used a while back, you typed the romaji for the corresponding kana, (with a double n, for n, so as to distuinguish between "na" and "nna"). Is the Korean one not like this? I thought Hangul was phonetic. | ||
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x2mirko
Germany245 Posts
Really cool website. Learning vocabularies was always the part i hated most about learning new languages. Now i can't stop. :D | ||
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Phenny
Australia1435 Posts
On November 08 2011 01:24 REDBLUEGREEN wrote: For big languages http://www.wiktionary.org/ will have a lot of pronounciations along with grammatical info. http://www.forvo.com/ is nice too but some words are just recorded with bad microphone. Thanks a ton for these links, should help a ton. Will be so happy when I finish this online exam so I can get back to it :D :D | ||
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x2mirko
Germany245 Posts
On Nov 8 2011 08:46 michielbrands wrote: already learn over 150 French words, practised my ass of yesterday, tested myself today, but works great, definitly planning to keep this up Would be so handy when I am on holiday to French and I could actually communicate with the French Wish there was a site like these, but then where you also could make complete phrases, so you would get more insight I don't think anybody is stopping you from doing that on memrise.com :D For norwegian there is a wordlist that also has some common phrases. | ||
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Phenny
Australia1435 Posts
On November 08 2011 17:50 x2mirko wrote: I don't think anybody is stopping you from doing that on memrise.com :D For norwegian there is a wordlist that also has some common phrases. Yeh I was doing Finnish newspaper word list and all of a sudden pops up 'poliisi alkoi julkaista' (iirc) in English 'the police began publishing'. At first I was like holy shit but then I realised phrases would be more beneficial really. | ||
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HotShizz
France710 Posts
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gregdetre
44 Posts
On November 07 2011 22:41 RouaF wrote: Pretty nice site I farmed Chinese for about two hours and definitely memorized quite a lot of words. But I think there is a mistake with the sign "right hand" (又) my gf told me it's a mistake and it means "again"... then it's re-used to explain quite a lot of other words... so... mistake or not ?[Memrise co-founder here] This is a good question. From http://www.memrise.com/mem/82117/this-is-not-used-to-mean-right-hand-side-there-is/ "Right Hand" is technically not the meaning of this character, but the radical name. The distinction is that "Right Hand" is the ancient meaning of the character, and the meaning that it had when the writing system was being developed. This meaning is the meaning that is most relevant to know for understanding how this character is used in combination characters, hence the radical name is introduced here before the more common modern meaning of the character; which is, incidentally, "AGAIN." Think of someone banging their RIGHT HAND down on the table AGAIN and AGAIN. | ||
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Black.Tea
Germany22 Posts
This comes at the perfect time for me, just applying for my semester abroad! | ||
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gregdetre
44 Posts
Hey gang, It's amazing to read all your suggestions, and see you charging up the leaderboards. TL is a force of nature! We want to make Memrise a place where anyone can learn anything. We still have a lot of work to make our next batch of languages (like Korean and Japanese) as good as they could be. If you'd like to help, we would love to work together. Drop Ben a line (ben@) - he's coordinating our volunteers around the world. It's a pleasure to meet you, and let me know if you have any more questions about neuroscience for me, or about being a Grandmaster of Memory (for Ed Cooke). | ||
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RouaF
France4120 Posts
On November 08 2011 18:24 gregdetre wrote: [Memrise co-founder here] This is a good question. From http://www.memrise.com/mem/82117/this-is-not-used-to-mean-right-hand-side-there-is/ "Right Hand" is technically not the meaning of this character, but the radical name. The distinction is that "Right Hand" is the ancient meaning of the character, and the meaning that it had when the writing system was being developed. This meaning is the meaning that is most relevant to know for understanding how this character is used in combination characters, hence the radical name is introduced here before the more common modern meaning of the character; which is, incidentally, "AGAIN." Think of someone banging their RIGHT HAND down on the table AGAIN and AGAIN. Thank you. Even my gf who is Chinese didn't know it had this meaning. Maybe it should be made more clear when learning the character that there is an "ancient meaning" and an actual one . Thanks for the website and keep up the good work ! | ||
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michielbrands
Netherlands1146 Posts
On November 08 2011 17:50 x2mirko wrote: I don't think anybody is stopping you from doing that on memrise.com :D For norwegian there is a wordlist that also has some common phrases. Problem is I don't know that much phrases in French, I am altough planning to make a Dutch - French wordlist | ||
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