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I have a question to mandarin speakers.
The mandarin in memrise is it the "mandarin international" that is spoken by over 700 million people in China or the "old mandarin" apparently spoken in Pekin (I have absolutely no idea, too lazzy to search on google) because I'm interested in the one that is spoken by everybody but obviously I cannot tell the difference.
I want to learn the simplified, modern mandarin international. It is worth it to start it on memrise? so far the webpage has been great for my french but I have no idea if it is as good for mandarin... plz somebody explain.
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Hey guys... I was away from the site for a few days and I had some plants ready to harvest at the time before getting incredibly busy.... anyway, not they are stuck in my "greenhouse" or short term memory, but I cannot water them, replant them or harvest them... that's in at least a couple wordlists... anyone else have similar problems or know what I should do?
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I'm still using this site every now and then. Helping me learn some Spanish vocab before I take it next semester 
And some Chinese for the eventual take over of the world 
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On December 15 2011 17:34 HotShizz wrote:
Hey guys... I was away from the site for a few days and I had some plants ready to harvest at the time before getting incredibly busy.... anyway, not they are stuck in my "greenhouse" or short term memory, but I cannot water them, replant them or harvest them... that's in at least a couple wordlists... anyone else have similar problems or know what I should do?
Hmmm. That's not good - what's your username? We'll take a look.
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TL-Jtom
This is a pretty cool website, will definitely be keeping up my French at least.
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On December 13 2011 05:52 Abenson wrote:
Oooh
Joining now
TL-Abenson (Japanese)
What vocab list are you using for Japanese? I haven't been able to find a good one.
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TO ANYBODY THAT READS THIS. IF YOU WANT TO LEARN SPANISH/ENGLISH AND SPEAK FRENCH, WE COULD HELP EACH OTHER, PM ME.
sorry for caps, I just need people to talk to that are natural french speakers. Livemocha people can be so boring.
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On December 14 2011 22:44 Nevermind86 wrote:
I have a question to mandarin speakers.
The mandarin in memrise is it the "mandarin international" that is spoken by over 700 million people in China or the "old mandarin" apparently spoken in Pekin (I have absolutely no idea, too lazzy to search on google) because I'm interested in the one that is spoken by everybody but obviously I cannot tell the difference.
I want to learn the simplified, modern mandarin international. It is worth it to start it on memrise? so far the webpage has been great for my french but I have no idea if it is as good for mandarin... plz somebody explain.
Well, simply put: mandarin is spoken (or at least understood) by the entire chinese (mainland) population (1.4 billion people). Memrise helps you learn the one and only mandarin.
If you're dealing with southern cities (hong-kong, shenzhen and guangzhou), you should learn some cantonese too.
If you want to live in china's countryside, you won't be able to learn the local dialect outside of the particular province.
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So I've been using this for about a week or two now to learn Italian.
I like the set up; plants, hear the word, see the word, the mems, the translated word to definition, the definition to translated word, the word to the (foreign) word, ect.
I've taken to also opening a notepad and writing out the word however many times I feel is necessary; helps with spelling and memory. Some are still hard to get though, but it's all part of the process. I'd highly recommend this, as it has helped me out tremendously.
The only suggestion I would have is to begin with basics first; I have la and il in a few words and not knowing which one to use sometimes throws me off. (il cane, la mucca, ect)
But really, this is the only thing I can really think of that truly bothers me. I know it is basically a vocabulary site, so I don't look too much for grammar. Having the different pronunciations is especially helpful. I've even started to develop my own Italian accent while speaking :D
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Is this only for vocabulary? Knowing a bunch of words is nice but knowing how to structure sentences in addition would be even better. I have only spent a couple hours on it so far so I don't know fully how the sessions progress.
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It took me a lot of years to learn english but because I didn't have a method to learn it, I just spent a lot of time in the internet and did very few lessons.
With french it's different, I'm learning pretty fast, the thing is I think that languages involve a lot of memorization and pronunciation before actually speaking the language, right now I stopped all lessons because even though they help, I though about it and the way little kids learn from their parents it's something more like memrise, hear the words over and over and pronounce them, once you know quite a few words and understand the meaning and pronunciation then it's time to learn the structure of sentences and verb conjugations, that way it's in my opinion easier to learn a language rather than the "old" method of learning pronoms and verb conjugations before throwing yourself in the deep waters of speaking, plus the memrise method could make you learn faster. My french pronunciation got better in about a month of using memrise and reading to the microphone than in a whole year of taking internet lessons and chatting and speaking with people over skype, because in memrise at least in french pronunciation is near perfect, while regular people don't necessarily pronounce their language correctly. (or spell it).
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Is anyone learning tagalog?
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Pandaz I'm joining you in the top 100!
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This is pretty cool, if I can get my hands on a Korean keyboard, I might actually try to start learning Korean.
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On December 19 2011 10:24 DueleR wrote:Pandaz I'm joining you in the top 100!
Congratz! High five!
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tito.bugz @ memrise
... learning Mandarin and the cryllic alphabet.
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I have 644 words in my garden (Dutch - "The thousand most common words in Dutch"). Everytime I need to water one of them because they're wilting, I keep to be getting also a bunch of same words over and over. It seems to be a bug. I keep getting too many points because I never miss them, unless I do some typo and press enter without first checking if I wrote everything correctly, but this is seriously taking too much of my time, that I could be using to learn new words.
Another annoying thing is that, on the default view, i.e. the one I get after clicking on the email notifications, I can't plant more seeds when plants are wilting. But with a big garden, it's common that some plants will need water in between my "planting" of new seeds, which makes me stop the process to go water them. Only today I found that I can go straight to plant or water, from the language main page, like http://www.memrise.com/set/277/dutch/
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Alright, joining you guys, too.
TL-Lio there, learning Finnish & Norwegian. A little bit of Latin, too, as I'll need it in university next year 
So: TL-Lio (Finnish, Norwegian, Latin)
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Hey guys,
We're working on something new, and I wondered whether you'd be willing to try it and let us know what you think.
It's a course for teaching the Korean alphabet.
http://www.memrise.com/cave/?iset=learn-the-korean-alphabet&plant_filter=planting<emplatename=plant
This is just an early version, so we'd really like to hear what you like and what you don't like. As usual, feel free to add some mems if you come up with anything cool.
Great stuff, and thank you, TL!
Yours,
Greg
Memrise co-founder
P.S. We have a separate set of Korean courses for learning words, but those currently require you to type in Korean, so there's a bit of a jump between the alphabet course and the word courses...
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On December 19 2011 10:36 57 Corvette wrote:
This is pretty cool, if I can get my hands on a Korean keyboard, I might actually try to start learning Korean.
Highly recommend this site on quickly learning how to type in Korean without a special keyboard.
Page 2 has mnemonics (I just used the consonant side when I first learned),
Page 3 has patterns that show how logically Korean is set up. Started typing in less than 30minutes (albeit, very slowly T_T).
Page 1 has links on how to setup Korean.
http://www.cjkboard.com/kboard2.html (link is to page 2)
![[image loading]](http://www.cjkboard.com/images/Kbrd_AlHan.gif)
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