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On January 11 2012 15:51 Quesadilla wrote:
I really wish somebody would add grammar into the mix as well. You can learn endless vocabulary but have no idea how to use it in Korea, unless you are living there.
I am currently working on trying to make a Korean grammar word-list. I have been busy lately so its creation is going slow. Also it is difficult to create a word-list that you could effectively use to learn the grammar. I might just post what I have completed so far in the next couple of days and then continuously add more grammar to it later.
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^^ Thanks! Yeah, actually my wife was a foreign exchange student in Ohio, then came back to the US with me for 5 years, and we just decided to go to France to see the other side of the family a bit... been here since April (when I created my TL account hence the France thing on there) As awesome as this list is, nothing is as good as just speaking that language every day! If you need any help with the grammar, let me know!
Oh that's awesome! - how well can you get by there? Learning grammar by myself is ok, but it's still hard b/cuz I don't talk to anyone in French on a day to day basis (or at least noone that will put up with my broken French!). What region of France are you in?
I lived in Paris the first part of 2011 for my last semester of grad (law) school, studying at Sciences Po. Unfortunately it was an exchange-type program with my law school in the US, so the classes were taught in (badly accented) english and I pretty much fell into the trap of spending all my time with my American classmates who were in the same program. So I picked up enough French to the point where I could order food in a restaurant and not offend people...and then I stopped.
But of course, I came back home to the US and realized that 1) French is an awesome language, and 2) I do want to learn it seriously. Unfortunately now I'm working as a corporate lawyer in NYC, which doesn't leave me a whole lot of time--I basically try to study for 2 hours every night before going to sleep. And of course wish to myself that I did more to learn when I was actually in France. But I guess that's how these things go much of the time - you never really appreciate something until it's gone :p
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I have a question to those who used this to "learn" Mandarin.
Was it actually helpful? Can you do things like read Chinese newspapers yet?
I'm Chinese, but my reading/writing/speaking/comprehension are probably at a grade 2 level (in China), since I grew up in Canada since I was 3. I've been meaning to start learning Chinese seriously for a long time now, but haven't been able to because of school. At most, I'd watch a Chinese drama or two every few months, but that doesn't really help unless I really focus on the Chinese subtitles, which I can't read most of anyway. feelsbadman.jpg
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On January 28 2012 06:28 ShangMing wrote:
I have a question to those who used this to "learn" Mandarin.
Was it actually helpful? Can you do things like read Chinese newspapers yet?
I'm Chinese, but my reading/writing/speaking/comprehension are probably at a grade 2 level (in China), since I grew up in Canada since I was 3. I've been meaning to start learning Chinese seriously for a long time now, but haven't been able to because of school. At most, I'd watch a Chinese drama or two every few months, but that doesn't really help unless I really focus on the Chinese subtitles, which I can't read most of anyway. feelsbadman.jpg
It's definitely helpful. I can't read newspapers yet, but that's because I've only been studying for a few months. Comparing the amount of words I've learnt with memrise, and how well I can recall them, to the amount of words I've learnt in classes, through books and through audio courses, it's obvious that memrise is much more effective. I can't recommend it enough.
Having said that, memorizing vocabulary is only one part of learning a language - speaking, listening, writing and working on sentence structures are important.
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TL-SentineL on there, learning Finnish and maybe later I'll do German.
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I accidentally ignored a word in my wordlist, can I get it back in the worldlist? I'm annoyed by 259/260 >:
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Started using ~2 months ago after reading this thread.
Helped to expand my (still rather pitiful) German vocabalery.
Thanks a bunch,
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On January 28 2012 05:51 DueleR wrote:Show nested quote +
^^ Thanks! Yeah, actually my wife was a foreign exchange student in Ohio, then came back to the US with me for 5 years, and we just decided to go to France to see the other side of the family a bit... been here since April (when I created my TL account hence the France thing on there) As awesome as this list is, nothing is as good as just speaking that language every day! If you need any help with the grammar, let me know!
Oh that's awesome! - how well can you get by there? Learning grammar by myself is ok, but it's still hard b/cuz I don't talk to anyone in French on a day to day basis (or at least noone that will put up with my broken French!). What region of France are you in? I lived in Paris the first part of 2011 for my last semester of grad (law) school, studying at Sciences Po. Unfortunately it was an exchange-type program with my law school in the US, so the classes were taught in (badly accented) english and I pretty much fell into the trap of spending all my time with my American classmates who were in the same program. So I picked up enough French to the point where I could order food in a restaurant and not offend people...and then I stopped. But of course, I came back home to the US and realized that 1) French is an awesome language, and 2) I do want to learn it seriously. Unfortunately now I'm working as a corporate lawyer in NYC, which doesn't leave me a whole lot of time--I basically try to study for 2 hours every night before going to sleep. And of course wish to myself that I did more to learn when I was actually in France. But I guess that's how these things go much of the time - you never really appreciate something until it's gone :p
I get by well. When I came here I had a bit of french, kind of child level grammar, but enough I could get a point across. After a few weeks of just using it every day it comes so much easier. At this point I have an accent but at least I can have professional meetings/interviews in person or over the phone, as well as talk to people at social gathering, writing letters with only a bit of editing by the mrs. etc. Basically all the facets of normal life over here. However, if I spend the entire day talking and thinking in French, by night I am so ready to just switch off and switch back to English.
What I can suggest to you is keep an eye out for when Millenium pops up on the streaming list, and just run their stream as background noise or whatever. It's always in French, but as it's SC, you'll pick out a lot of words that are the same, hydralisks or whatever, and you'll be able to pick up a lot more than you'd think. Plus, it's mostly just common vernacular. It wont help as much as being constantly surrounded by it, but it's a nice ego boost when you start to pick up what they are saying even if you don't get every word.
edit* By the way, lived in Paris until end of December... SOOOOO expensive. And I know in NYC you're probably much more used to the hustle and commotion, but everything, including administration, is so much more relaxed in the country side in France. Wow... What part of Paris were you in? I was in 20ème arrondissement, close to the cemetery Père Lachaise, where Morrison and Wilde are buried.
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HotShizz, how are you getting so many points each day?:O Do you incorporate languages that you (used to) know, to refresh them? Or do you simply learn a lot?^^ How much time do you spend each day learning?
I'm just very curious because I recently got back into learning languages. Since I have a week off I decided to learn 100 words each day, resulting in me taking almost half the amount of points you get on a daily basis, but you seem to be able to keep it up for months on end :o Do you have a routine?
Sorry to bother, maybe I'm too curious :p
Edit: Oh, so you're living in a french-speaking region I see :p is that most of your secret?
Edit 2: Has memrise been a bit slower than usual for others the last few days as well?
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For people learning korean, This may help. I am sure it is helping me. I haven't read all 50 pages though so sorry if this was already posted, but I know a lot of people here want to learn korean on memrise and are having trouble, including myself.
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Anyone else's list of Gardens just show up as a blank page? 
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I love Memrise. I'm using it for school right now and I'm just making my own lists for Spanish vocab and SAT vocab. This website is soooo helpful.
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The waypoint page keeps telling me some plants are wilting whilst they are not
edit: haha, doubled my points this week!:D Gonna try to keep 50/words a day coming from now on :p school's starting again tho
edit2: problem seems fixed.
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I'm doing japanese alphabet right now, how do switch between learning the hiragana and the katakana?
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On January 31 2012 22:44 SCPhineas wrote:HotShizz, how are you getting so many points each day?:O Do you incorporate languages that you (used to) know, to refresh them? Or do you simply learn a lot?^^ How much time do you spend each day learning? I'm just very curious because I recently got back into learning languages. Since I have a week off I decided to learn 100 words each day, resulting in me taking almost half the amount of points you get on a daily basis, but you seem to be able to keep it up for months on end :o Do you have a routine? Sorry to bother, maybe I'm too curious :p Edit: Oh, so you're living in a french-speaking region I see :p is that most of your secret? Edit 2: Has memrise been a bit slower than usual for others the last few days as well?
I'm not sure how much time I spend on it... I do two new sets of words at a time, but I have about 2500 words already learned, so i have a lot to water each time. Plus I do a few languages, Dutch, French, SAT English, German, and Spanish. So one time through the words is about thirty new words and like I said I do it twice, so maybe 60 per day, but I water all the wilting when I do it. Every time I take a bit of time off because of work or whatever I have a few hundred words to water and that just equates to a lot of points too.
What language(s) are you working on/already speak?
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On January 28 2012 10:32 Tal wrote:Show nested quote +On January 28 2012 06:28 ShangMing wrote:
I have a question to those who used this to "learn" Mandarin.
Was it actually helpful? Can you do things like read Chinese newspapers yet?
I'm Chinese, but my reading/writing/speaking/comprehension are probably at a grade 2 level (in China), since I grew up in Canada since I was 3. I've been meaning to start learning Chinese seriously for a long time now, but haven't been able to because of school. At most, I'd watch a Chinese drama or two every few months, but that doesn't really help unless I really focus on the Chinese subtitles, which I can't read most of anyway. feelsbadman.jpg It's definitely helpful. I can't read newspapers yet, but that's because I've only been studying for a few months. Comparing the amount of words I've learnt with memrise, and how well I can recall them, to the amount of words I've learnt in classes, through books and through audio courses, it's obvious that memrise is much more effective. I can't recommend it enough. Having said that, memorizing vocabulary is only one part of learning a language - speaking, listening, writing and working on sentence structures are important.
I agree totally with this.
I have only 350 words on Memrise in Mandarin after 3 months of using it, but it's great, I can read Chinese and get the sense of it as long as it's basic.
It also really helps me with memorizing tones, which is vital for when you are speaking. My sentence structure is awful though, and I can't formulate my own sentences very well yet. All in good time I suppose
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I've recently started using this game for learning Chinese and it seems pretty effective. But I've been wondering when you reach a few hundred words do you start to forget some of them? Or at least forget how to pronounce them? I can't imagine learning so many words in such a short time since you can go at a pretty fast pace in this game.
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TL-Keitzer... this is really cool so far
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maybe an option to select categories of words you want to learn? sometimes you get some really useless words at a beginner level
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You can add me to the list of TL members learning (TL-snpnx , Korean and Chinese)
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