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ShadowDrgn
United States2497 Posts
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Birdie
New Zealand4438 Posts
Nearly got the Korean alphabet memorized, although I already knew some of the alphabet so I had a headstart on that. The Korean audio for the alphabet sounds faked by a computer rather than having an actual person saying them, although maybe that's just me. I still don't know how to pronounce ㅓ correctly  Is there anyone running a TL mempal leaderboard by friending all the TLers and then, say screenshotting it each week to see who's doing the best? | ||
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ShadowDrgn
United States2497 Posts
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TheUltimate
82 Posts
Oh, and my account name here is TheUltimate  | ||
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Retgery
Canada1229 Posts
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Nevermind86
Somalia429 Posts
HOW GOOD IS THE PRONONCIATION of the words?, I've been using memrise for french for well over a year and the prononciation is pretty good, since it's done by native guys and all of that, is it as good for these 2 languages? and the mandarin in the webpage is it the one they speak in pekin and mainland china or the taiwan dialect?, and last how about the prononciation for russian and japanese? do all the languages sound like good native speakers? EDIT: Portuguese brazilian sounds pretty good as far as I can tell, but the sound is so low that I have to put my headphones to 100% and still doesn't sound loud enough... because I live close to a highway, this is a problem because I'll have to use it at night only  | ||
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REDBLUEGREEN
Germany1904 Posts
On July 21 2012 22:18 Retgery wrote: Quick question about Korean? Is there anyway to change the settings so the korea sounds and letters correspond with a standard QWERTY keyboards? For examble the sound ㅂ is b and on the standard keyboard is on the letter q. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=22339 I used it to make phonetic layouts for Russian and Mongolian because it was too fucking confusing...н corresponds to [n] but the position on keyboard is neither one -.- I don't know how much sense it makes for Korean though. I think it is a very logical layout. Consonants on the left, vowels on the right, simple consonants in top row next to each other, aspirated consonants in bottom row next to each other and mostly compound vowels and iotized vowels in top row and simple vowels in middle row. Also i don't know where you would put all the iotized vowels in qwerty | ||
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TheUltimate
82 Posts
On July 21 2012 22:44 Nevermind86 wrote: HOW GOOD IS THE PRONONCIATION of the words?, I've been using memrise for french for well over a year and the prononciation is pretty good, since it's done by native guys and all of that, is it as good for these 2 languages? and the mandarin in the webpage is it the one they speak in pekin and mainland china or the taiwan dialect?, and last how about the prononciation for russian and japanese? do all the languages sound like good native speakers? My native Chinese gf says the Mandarin recording sound authentic. They're all recorded in Standard Mandarin - the official lingua franca of the mainland that all learners aspire to - which is close to the Beijing accent (though it's actually closer to the accent spoken to the north of Beijing), and further from the Taiwanese dialect. The differences between the 3 are quite minor though, and native speakers find them easily mutually intelligible. (Actually, on occasion the pronunciation isn't perfect, cause the speaker lets a bit of a Beijing accent creep in, but most of the time it's very neutral Standard.) | ||
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Birdie
New Zealand4438 Posts
I'll probably be buying a few packs of stickers for Korean letters and leaving the keyboard as the standard Korean layout, switch between English and Korean with Shift Alt or whatever it is. | ||
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Nevermind86
Somalia429 Posts
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ToT)OjKa(
Korea (South)2437 Posts
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EtherealDeath
United States8366 Posts
A friendly group to egg each other on in progress would be fun! | ||
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Toadesstern
Germany16350 Posts
On July 21 2012 22:44 Nevermind86 wrote: I have a question for you guys: I'm interested in using memrise for brasilian portuguese and mandarin international, the question is: HOW GOOD IS THE PRONONCIATION of the words?, I've been using memrise for french for well over a year and the prononciation is pretty good, since it's done by native guys and all of that, is it as good for these 2 languages? and the mandarin in the webpage is it the one they speak in pekin and mainland china or the taiwan dialect?, and last how about the prononciation for russian and japanese? do all the languages sound like good native speakers? EDIT: Portuguese brazilian sounds pretty good as far as I can tell, but the sound is so low that I have to put my headphones to 100% and still doesn't sound loud enough... because I live close to a highway, this is a problem because I'll have to use it at night only as far as I know they're only allowing native speakers to record pronunciation files in general. I'm like 99% sure I read that 2 days ago when checking something out but I didn't check the timestamp so it might be outdated? | ||
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Disregard
China10252 Posts
edit: I noticed the male pronouncation is a bit hard to pick-up. And the others seem over-emphasised. | ||
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SHOOG
United States1639 Posts
I'm enjoying it so far. It makes it quite easy to pick things up. | ||
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Isken
Korea (South)1131 Posts
I like memrise so far but for korean I don't know the keyboard well so I keep running out of time, I guess I'll continue learning words from my book with a piece of paper :p | ||
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Rimstalker
Germany734 Posts
On July 21 2012 11:44 Birdie wrote: I started this a couple of days ago. (ID: TL-Birdie)I'm currently learning Korean and Maori, and find it pretty useful for motivating me to learn languages that I've always wanted to learn but lack the drive to study in a book. I also started a little competition with some friends on another SC site to earn site currency for being the top of the mempal leaderboard each week :D Nearly got the Korean alphabet memorized, although I already knew some of the alphabet so I had a headstart on that. The Korean audio for the alphabet sounds faked by a computer rather than having an actual person saying them, although maybe that's just me. I still don't know how to pronounce ㅓ correctly Is there anyone running a TL mempal leaderboard by friending all the TLers and then, say screenshotting it each week to see who's doing the best? I was doing that a while back edit: this is from about 20 minutes ago ![[image loading]](http://www.abload.de/img/mem1djhg.jpg) | ||
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Birdie
New Zealand4438 Posts
On August 14 2012 18:50 Isken wrote: Damn I noticed only today by looking on the leaderboards that there were TL people on memrise, duh I guess I can't change my username :p (edit : oh it appears I can) I like memrise so far but for korean I don't know the keyboard well so I keep running out of time, I guess I'll continue learning words from my book with a piece of paper :p Yeah I've got the same problem, it's actually better on my ipod because the entire keyboard changes to a korean one at the tap of a button. I'm planning on buying a few packs of transparent korean keyboard stickers though, which should make it easier | ||
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TheKwas
Iceland372 Posts
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Rimstalker
Germany734 Posts
On August 14 2012 19:23 TheKwas wrote: Add me Rimstalker: TL-DanielKwasnicki did that - now that I have noticed that I can just clobber together a link to peoples' profiles when I know their exact login, it's a lot more comfortable | ||
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