EPTMemrise: Learning languages with a game approach - Page 58
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robjapan
Japan104 Posts
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Atlasy
Hungary229 Posts
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bardtown
England2313 Posts
On August 21 2012 00:27 robjapan wrote: I'm TL-RobWalsh Hehe, did you mean rank 17 all time of your cohort? I couldn't find you either looking on the leaderboard. Still way ahead of me  | ||
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YouthSC
United Kingdom355 Posts
for korean, french, german and japanese lets do this! it's fucking epic btw | ||
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ToT)OjKa(
Korea (South)2437 Posts
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. | ||
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TheRealPaciFist
United States1049 Posts
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...) | ||
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Atom Cannister
Germany380 Posts
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 | ||
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bardtown
England2313 Posts
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...) 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 | ||
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TheUltimate
82 Posts
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...) 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. | ||
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TheUltimate
82 Posts
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 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! | ||
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TheRealPaciFist
United States1049 Posts
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 Ah, not a glitch, just me being dumb. One of the buttons acts differently if you're signed in, and another button I was treating the same way was actually labeled as "intro." 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. Well, should work well enough I hope Site looks pretty cool overall, I'll definitely be playing with it. And also 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. Thanks, I've been thinking about learning Japanese or Korean, and that looks like a good place to start =) | ||
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Atom Cannister
Germany380 Posts
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! Thanks for the answer. How many course are you taking at once? | ||
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Rimstalker
Germany734 Posts
On August 21 2012 01:58 Atom Cannister wrote: Thanks for the answer. How many course are you taking at once? You can see that for yourself (for any user) http://www.memrise.com/user/TL-TheUltimate/ - in the lower right corner | ||
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bardtown
England2313 Posts
On August 21 2012 01:58 Atom Cannister wrote: Thanks for the answer. How many course are you taking at once? If you're just beginning by the way, you start to earn a lot more points when you have quite a few words in long term memory. | ||
Wunder
United Kingdom2950 Posts
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TheAura
96 Posts
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Wunder
United Kingdom2950 Posts
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TheUltimate
82 Posts
On August 21 2012 01:58 Atom Cannister wrote: Thanks for the answer. How many course are you taking at once? 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. 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? 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. 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? Just for the leaderboard. (Or to give someone a warm fuzzy feeling from the knowledge that someone out there likes them.;P) | ||
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bardtown
England2313 Posts
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) How comfortably can you communicate in Chinese now? My ultimate aim with mandarin on memrise is to learn the entire 'Comprehensive' course (so 3000 words or so, just a bit less than you). With that done I'll focus on reading actual books/conversing in Chinese if that's feasible. | ||
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ZeroChrome
Canada1001 Posts
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 Well, you score 3 times as many points for watering wilting words than you do for practicing healthy ones, so once you get a ton of words you'll have to water a lot of them each day and this will get you a lot of points. Around the time that this thread was first posted you got the same amount of points for practicing words you already knew so some people racked up a huge amount of points just by doing the same words over and over again. Rimstalker, please also add my to your list; TL-ZeroChrome | ||
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