Memrise: Learning languages with a game approach - Page 58

On August 21 2012 00:27 robjapan wrote:
I'm TL-RobWalsh

On August 21 2012 01:16 TheRealPaciFist wrote:
Is there a way to start off on a higher difficulty in memrise? I don't want to take forever grinding out words I already know (would be useful for English as well!)

edit: Oh I just found a list of Spanish courses... the website's kind of confusing, in that it has different behavior upon identical actions (I didn't see this list before, but I got to it just by pressing on "Spanish" like the fourth time, because I kept going in circles...)

On August 21 2012 01:16 TheRealPaciFist wrote:
Is there a way to start off on a higher difficulty in memrise? I don't want to take forever grinding out words I already know (would be useful for English as well!)

edit: Oh I just found a list of Spanish courses... the website's kind of confusing, in that it has different behavior upon identical actions (I didn't see this list before, but I got to it just by pressing on "Spanish" like the fourth time, because I kept going in circles...)

On August 21 2012 01:22 Atom Cannister wrote:
Anyone recommend any German course there?

Also, how do people score so highly? Is it from learning multiple languages or maybe just having a lot of gardens? I only have 3... :S

On August 21 2012 01:24 bardtown wrote:


If you're sure about that then put it on the memrise forums as a glitch. I can't say that's ever happened to me (though I'm not learning Spanish) but if you report it they usually do pay attention.

@YouthSC
Click on settings and you'll be able to add a TL- tag to your name

On August 21 2012 01:31 TheUltimate wrote:


The memrise team have been looking at this problem for quite some time, but the only workaround right now is to choose the "ignore word" option for every word you already know when it comes up in a test (you can find this option during testing by hovering your mouse over the name of the language you're learning - a menu should appear with the ignore option in it). This can still be quite tedious if you already know 1000s of words in your target language.

On August 21 2012 00:57 ToT)OjKa( wrote:
For Japanese, I recommend learning the hiragana and katakana, the 150 kanji radicals and then moving over to this site:

http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/
It's actually an amazing resource this guy has made and updates.

Check out the grammar guide. It's a good way to actually learn the language and you pick up kanji which are used in the sentences along the way.

On August 21 2012 01:34 TheUltimate wrote:


I can't speak for anyone else, but I have scored well by dedicating on average 30 minutes a day since the beginning of November. There's no substitute for consistency when you're learning a language.

Also, once you get used to the tests it's possible to do even the most complicated typing tests in less than 5 seconds - that speeds things up a lot!

On August 21 2012 01:58 Atom Cannister wrote:

Thanks for the answer.
How many course are you taking at once?

On August 21 2012 01:58 Atom Cannister wrote:

Thanks for the answer.
How many course are you taking at once?

On August 21 2012 01:58 Atom Cannister wrote:

Thanks for the answer.
How many course are you taking at once?

On August 21 2012 02:40 TheAura wrote:
Hows the ihpone app for this? I used it when it first came out but found it was very poor at the time. Anybody know if it has improved since its release?

On August 21 2012 02:48 Wunder wrote:
Are Mempals mutual, or is the only point of adding someone as a Mempal so that you have someone else on the leaderboard to chase?

On August 21 2012 03:32 TheUltimate wrote:


I've done 15 courses, as you can see on the page Rimstalker pointed out. They all have significant overlap though, so my total words learned is around 3400 (bear in mind that Mandarin words, comprising both character and pronunciation aspects give twice as many tests as, say, German words).

It only works out to less than 15 words a day since I started memrise, which is a very reasonable goal for a serious language learner to shoot for - especially if it's an "easy" language.

In any case, don't worry about the points - just focus on the learning you're doing. Ultimately chasing a larger "epeen" is a gigantic waste of time. No one cares.



It's much better than it was, but I still think memrise is meant to be used with a keyboard. Multiple choice questions can't take your learning past a certain point.




Just for the leaderboard. (Or to give someone a warm fuzzy feeling from the knowledge that someone out there likes them.;P)