Memrise: Learning languages with a game approach - Page 68

On September 03 2013 19:20 TheKwas wrote:
Memrise doesn't work on my chrome either. Keeps popping up to an ad site. Works on IE tho (so slllooooow tho)

On September 04 2013 00:03 Phenny wrote:


That's odd, I started back up yesterday after a multi month memrise hiatus on chrome and have had no problems. I'm using latest chrome afaik (only installed it in the last week or two).

Re memrise being just about words.
Memrise is all about vocab which is why to learn any language effectively (and to get any sort of grammar/syntax) you have to use other sites/programs in conjunction with it. It's just that comparatively, understanding syntax and grammar shiz is often much easier and takes less time than expanding vocab to the point of being proficient with the language.

I'm using memrise in conjunction with livemocha now for grammar supplementation.
Is duolingo iphone/tablet device only or can I use computer for it?

On September 04 2013 00:06 bardtown wrote:


I don't think learning grammar is easier exactly, but when you have a wide enough vocab you can start to form sentences which means you can talk to people, read books, etc, and by doing so you will see proper grammar in use and start to pick it up. For the most part I've avoided using other sites for grammar, vocabulary was enough to get stuck in

On September 04 2013 00:03 Phenny wrote:


That's odd, I started back up yesterday after a multi month memrise hiatus on chrome and have had no problems. I'm using latest chrome afaik (only installed it in the last week or two).

Re memrise being just about words.
Memrise is all about vocab which is why to learn any language effectively (and to get any sort of grammar/syntax) you have to use other sites/programs in conjunction with it. It's just that comparatively, understanding syntax and grammar shiz is often much easier and takes less time than expanding vocab to the point of being proficient with the language.

I'm using memrise in conjunction with livemocha now for grammar supplementation.
Is duolingo iphone/tablet device only or can I use computer for it?

On October 20 2013 23:16 Nevermind86 wrote:
So, I've been studying french for about 4 and a half years now, it's getting as good as my english, pronunciation wise, which is great because english is my second language and I'm very proficient at it. I though this was impossible, considering that I started learning english when I was a kid and french when I was 22 years old, but here's my conclusion about memrise:

At the beginning memrise is very useful for learning and repeating the pronunciation of many words, but after a while I though it was useless, I already knew most of the words anyways and it became a memory game and not a learning game tool, because the translations and pronunciations sometimes aren't exact, so I decided to quit it.

I changed my method of studying to listening french and reading books, while talking to french people everytime I could, it worked and I speak french now, but then I wanted to have a good accent, which is key to having a good pronunciation. I felt I was stuck with a bad accent and any amount of practice, speaking french that is, didn't seem to work, so I decided to start using memrise again, but now the experience seems different, because I know the answers not because I memorized them but because I just know them, and now I can pay better attention to pronunciation because I'm better at the language, memrise at this advanced point it's still very useful to keep up with words that you don't use that often, comme malgré, c'est tout, j'aime memrise :p

I think that such thing as a muscular brain memory for languages exists, the more you practice it, it doesn't matter the method, the better you will speak it, at some point you even start thinking in that language, after that just keep practicing and you will succeed, the amount of practice must be huge, but it needs to be smart training, using learning tools like memrise or recording your voice while reading/speaking to know where you fail, otherwise you could be stuck with a bad accent, my two cents.

PD: I decided to start learning a 4th language, I decided it should be russian but I don't like it anymore, even though I invested quite some time into it, maybe change to chinese or german? or are those too hard? I speak spanish, english and french, would german be easier?

On July 06 2014 10:46 Xiphos wrote:
^Still using this.

I'm "teaching" French using this tool. I've accumulated 1000 french words from this book I've read and there is no way that I could remember all the definitions without this website.

So you are learning Korean, which "lessons" do you recommend?