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SCPhineas
Netherlands119 Posts
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HotShizz
France710 Posts
On February 28 2012 04:07 SCPhineas wrote: omg, it started questioning me spanish-english instead of the usual english-spanish, didn't see that coming. Thanks memrise!:D Me too, but only in spanish, oddly enough, none of the other languages... On February 28 2012 04:29 SyDe wrote: TL-SyDe (Korean and English) I just made my account but it took me like 5 mins to load the page and create my account >.< anyway, sounds fun! thanks for sharing  .I think they are having server issues, like overloading. I just clicked on one of the new learners on the community page and they were listed at something like 159,000th place. So, needless to say they probably weren't ready for such an increase. It's been slow and sometimes completely down for me throughout the day. That said, welcome! unrelated, we need more TLers on leaderboard!! | ||
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SCPhineas
Netherlands119 Posts
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Kralle333
Denmark301 Posts
Just finished HSK2 :D But only the signs, i don't know how to pronounce them. Anyone have an idea how to learn that now? | ||
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TheUltimate
82 Posts
On February 28 2012 22:57 Kralle333 wrote: 你好 大家 Just finished HSK2 :D But only the signs, i don't know how to pronounce them. Anyone have an idea how to learn that now? If you didn't know already, the primary method for spelling/learning chinese pronunciation is called pinyin. Pinyin is relatively easy to learn, but you do need to make an effort to learn how it's pronounced in the beginning. I used ChinesePod's lessons for this: http://chinesepod.com/tools/pronunciation Memrise prioritises the meaning of words, but automatically starts to test you on the pinyin pronunciation for the word after the system is reasonably confident that you know the meaning. Anyway, if you really want to learn Chinese, don't just rely on memrise - it's a great tool for acquiring vocabulary, but vocabulary acquisition is only one fraction of what it takes to learn a language. Go get a beginners' book or find some introductory course online. | ||
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Kralle333
Denmark301 Posts
On February 29 2012 00:35 TheUltimate wrote: If you didn't know already, the primary method for spelling/learning chinese pronunciation is called pinyin. Pinyin is relatively easy to learn, but you do need to make an effort to learn how it's pronounced in the beginning. I used ChinesePod's lessons for this: http://chinesepod.com/tools/pronunciation Memrise prioritises the meaning of words, but automatically starts to test you on the pinyin pronunciation for the word after the system is reasonably confident that you know the meaning. Anyway, if you really want to learn Chinese, don't just rely on memrise - it's a great tool for acquiring vocabulary, but vocabulary acquisition is only one fraction of what it takes to learn a language. Go get a beginners' book or find some introductory course online. Yea i know pinyin, its just that i disabled it so i could become faster at learning the signs. thanks for the site. 谢谢 朋友 Have tried rosetta stone, but i feel it goes way too slow | ||
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s.a.y
Croatia3840 Posts
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Xiphos
Canada7507 Posts
Btw, how does site not have gotten in contact with Ads is a quesition that I have been pondering. Seriously every single vocabulary page for "plant watering" should contain at least some advertisement in order to get a sufficient income to keep the site running. | ||
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TheUltimate
82 Posts
It's good to see so many TL users are still plugging away on memrise! | ||
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MarthVader
United States63 Posts
Hopefully I'll be able to learn enough before my 4 week trip to Korea this summer ^.^ | ||
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crappen
Norway1546 Posts
zhi3 (pinyin) is in both the word toe and to follow Anyone know why this is? Just a different meaning in the right context I guess, but I need to have it assured | ||
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JieXian
Malaysia4677 Posts
On April 18 2012 19:10 crappen wrote: Chinese mandarin is my course, and Im curious when I met two words have the same pinyin. zhi3 (pinyin) is in both the word toe and to follow Anyone know why this is? Just a different meaning in the right context I guess, but I need to have it assured It's just like how in English you have many homonyms, except a lot more hahaha. Besides, there's no bullshit in pinyin where there are many ways to write the same sound, though it isn't perfect. This is the reason why getting the intonations right is so important. There are enough homonyms as it is. I know it's very hard for foreigners but you have to keep practicing! Some extra information, the Chinese themselves get confused and they have to ask for confirmations. For example if I say "to", it can mean "to" or "too". So if I don't know which "to" he's referring to he'll reply something like: the "to of to do", not "the too of too good". On February 29 2012 00:39 Kralle333 wrote: Yea i know pinyin, its just that i disabled it so i could become faster at learning the signs. thanks for the site. 谢谢 朋友 Have tried rosetta stone, but i feel it goes way too slow Don't disable it. Foreigners have a tough time learning intonations as it is. I highly recommend Pimsleur Mandarin - works on speaking and some vocab but lacks in grammar and explainations of rules. Get a book to complement that. For looking up words, try http://dict.baidu.com/. They have good english translations and pinyin. If you want to know how a word is pronounced, paste it in google translate and press listen. Be aware that you may get different pronounciations due to accents. Next, use http://www.wordreference.com, great site with dictionary and a forum so you can ask away to chinese speakers. Now I'm thinking about writing a short guide to learning languages online :D | ||
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Heweree
United Kingdom497 Posts
I still find it great, you put your music on and just answer. You don't even have to focus, your memory unconsciously works for you. | ||
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LoKi-
United States121 Posts
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TheUltimate
82 Posts
@LoKi- you might be 19th on your cohort's all-time leaderboard, but you're 7271th globally - like I said, there are lots of users! | ||
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Traceback
United States469 Posts
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Tanner
United States38 Posts
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-_-Quails
Australia796 Posts
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-_-Quails
Australia796 Posts
On May 11 2012 02:09 TheUltimate wrote: There are still at least a few TL users regularly on memrise, but getting into the global leaderboard for the shorter time periods (daily, weekly, monthly) is quite difficult nowadays - from my experience, you generally need to be learning at least 40 words a day for this (Or, just spamming tests on the same words over and over for points, but really, what is the point of doing that?) There are just a lot more enthusiastic non-TL users than there used to be. @LoKi- you might be 19th on your cohort's all-time leaderboard, but you're 7271th globally - like I said, there are lots of users! Now I'm back to this, should definitely be learning more than 40 words a day. (I only spam test Korean and Mandarin, because I find that I mix up the direction components are facing/the presence of a drop if I don't do that often. | ||
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Carson
Canada820 Posts
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