EPTI've set a goal of learning 5 kanji and 5 new words each day, minimum, additionally to the words I learn in my course. But on a slow weekend like this I just want to go balls deep and keep planting word-seeds lol.
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theJob
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I've set a goal of learning 5 kanji and 5 new words each day, minimum, additionally to the words I learn in my course. But on a slow weekend like this I just want to go balls deep and keep planting word-seeds lol. | ||
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Scarecrow
Korea (South)9172 Posts
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Artifice
United States523 Posts
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LioRawr
56 Posts
On October 06 2012 22:24 theJob wrote: I find myself spending time on memrise instead of gaming, which is awsome. Anyone know about how many new words is realistic to aim for per day? As others said, it really depends on the language. Personally, if I learn new Finnish vocab, I can only learn ~ 5 - 10 max. per day when I want to remember them well. But when I do Norwegian or Latin vocab, I can go for ~ 30 per day without any problems. It highly depends on how easy the words are for memorizing them or how alike they are to words I already know. Also, working with the mems & the additional infos provided can help a lot. | ||
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Tobberoth
Sweden6375 Posts
On October 06 2012 22:24 theJob wrote: I find myself spending time on memrise instead of gaming, which is awsome. Anyone know about how many new words is realistic to aim for per day? I'd say it depends less on what language etc, and more on your time, dedication and technique. If you use proper mnemonics and have the time/dedication to put in several hours a day, you could probably do at least 100 words a day, regardless of language. Problem is that 1. You have to spend a ton of time and it's mentally exhausting to juggle that many mnemonics and 2. Your watering will become more or less unbearable after a while. As for the second point, one can be surprised by the statistics. When I used Anki a lot (more or less an advanced desktop version of memrise), I worked a lot with SRS, and we had calculations on how quickly the amount of "watering" you had to do each day increased depending on daily input, and it was pretty ridiculous, Within a year, if you input like.. 20 words a day, you have to do 300 "waterings" a day. I don't remember the exact stats, but it was something pretty ridiculous like that. | ||
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Azza
China650 Posts
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Dead9
United States4725 Posts
On October 07 2012 20:42 Azza wrote: I stopped using this when Chinese people kept telling me what I was saying was wrong. it's pretty accurate for vocab, but you have to supplement it with some grammar for anything to make any sense | ||
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Toadesstern
Germany16350 Posts
Wasn't there an option to reduce the number of words you're given when doing watering? Right now I'm usually getting the default one (either 50 or 40, idk) and that's a bit too much for me. Not because it's too much itself but if I'm wrong on something and I've still got like 40 words left I'm very likely to just press enter twice really fast without actually remembering the word I just forgot because there's still so much left I need to cover thinking "screw that, will remember it next time anyways", which obviously won't be the case  TL;DR: So basicly I want to reduce the number and do waterings in 4 small steps per day instead of doing 2 or 3 of those big 50-words runs and as mentioned I'm pretty sure I saw that option SOMEWHERE but I'm either paranoid/halucinating and it doesn't exist to begin with or I can't find it. Help would be much appreciated :3 | ||
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ShadowDrgn
United States2497 Posts
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Toadesstern
Germany16350 Posts
Guess that'll have to do for me. Should be incredible easy to implement something like that though, shouldn't it? I'd really love to be able to do bigger runs in english and less words per session everywhere else :p | ||
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SilverLeagueElite
United States626 Posts
Why would people cheat on memrise? Clearly the point of the website is self improvement. They're just cheating themselves in this regard. Or these people are just trolls who have no interest in learning a new language at all. | ||
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solidbebe
Netherlands4921 Posts
On October 16 2012 03:18 SilverLeagueElite wrote: Memrise leaderboard suspended due to cheating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memrise Why would people cheat on memrise? Clearly the point of the website is self improvement. They're just cheating themselves in this regard. Or these people are just trolls who have no interest in learning a new language at all. So they can jack off to their number 1 spot on the leaderboards. | ||
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LioRawr
56 Posts
On October 16 2012 03:18 SilverLeagueElite wrote: Memrise leaderboard suspended due to cheating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memrise Why would people cheat on memrise? Clearly the point of the website is self improvement. They're just cheating themselves in this regard. Or these people are just trolls who have no interest in learning a new language at all. If there is a change of cheating on a competitive system, people will. Personally, I think the disabled leaderboards are a huge letdown for my motivation, though I try to rack up as many points as I can even without the extra little 'push' from the competition. The new memrise looks interesting so far (I was in the 2nd cohort of 500 to gain access), although it lacks a lot of features by now and is far from being complete. Just what you would expect from a Beta of a Beta  | ||
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Pseudoku
Canada1279 Posts
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Dead9
United States4725 Posts
but yeah generally it's used to mean day or day of the week | ||
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Pseudoku
Canada1279 Posts
On October 17 2012 14:50 Dead9 wrote: it means both, look under alternative meanings but yeah generally it's used to mean day or day of the week My first language is Chinese, and I've never seen/heard it being used to reference the sun... shouldn't they use the primary meaning? I don't want people reading "Day 30" as "Sun 30" | ||
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Dead9
United States4725 Posts
it's the same way 月 (yue4) literally means moon but is primarily used for months, though i suppose it's used much more often for moon than 日 is for sun my first language is chinese as well, and there's plenty of words that use 日 that reference the sun but the only examples i can think of right now are 日光 = sunlight and 日本 = japan = origin of the sun lol | ||
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FILM
United States663 Posts
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-_-Quails
Australia796 Posts
On October 16 2012 03:18 SilverLeagueElite wrote: Memrise leaderboard suspended due to cheating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memrise Why would people cheat on memrise? Clearly the point of the website is self improvement. They're just cheating themselves in this regard. Or these people are just trolls who have no interest in learning a new language at all. "The cheating in question is that several members of the community appear to be using bots to accrue more points; others are using dummy courses with simple answers to rack up vast scores; and in one case we have evidence that a small army of children has been employed to exaggerate one individual's learning accomplishments. While we applaud the imagination and competitiveness of such cheats, we condemn their behaviour, which is unfair on everyone else in the community. " Shit's cray. | ||
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tRavE
United States23 Posts
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