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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4667 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 1 of 12 26 February 2012 at 12:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just came across an article that mentioned http://www.memrise.com/.
I've just started to learn Japanese and I see that not only is it covered but there seem to be quite a few "community contributed" vocabulary lists and lessons. I've played with the site for about 30 minutes now and it seems quite reasonable. Does anyone have more experience with it? Do you know at what point they'll want me to start paying :-) 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5868 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 2 of 12 26 February 2012 at 3:45pm | IP Logged | ||
Not quite sure. But I do know that they pester you with a lot of emails begging you to come back to their site. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5011 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 3 of 12 26 February 2012 at 11:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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They send much less emails than for exemple frenchpod101 (horrible spammer) or lingq, so no worries. And you can turn most off, I believe.
A few weeks ago, I wrote quite a lot about memrise, which I had just found by then, in my log. I'll just give you a link since I have no energy to rewrite or quote it all. It's the last but one post on first page and a more detailed post is first on the second page of the thread http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=30405&PN=0&TPN=2 I hope it'll be useful. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5011 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 4 of 12 26 February 2012 at 11:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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And I forgot some news from memrise. They have recently done a survey and it seems the authors' plans are to keep the site free but add payed functions, such as downloadable phone app usable offline.
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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4667 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 5 of 12 27 February 2012 at 1:36pm | IP Logged | ||
Thanks. I did search the forum before starting a new post, next time I'll make sure that I search post contents and not just titles :-) So far memrise seems to be working quite well for me (and no spammy emails yet). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| atama warui Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 4703 days ago 594 posts - 985 votes Speaks: German*, English, Japanese | Message 6 of 12 29 February 2012 at 5:09am | IP Logged | ||
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Wow, I started there after reading this. Really a nice find!
Thanks for sharing this with us :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4667 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 7 of 12 15 March 2012 at 11:46pm | IP Logged | ||
Having asked, I think it's only fair that I report back. So far the only emails I get are of the "your memories are fading, come water your plants" variety. I consider those to be a useful prod :-) but they can be disabled under the account settings. It's also twice asked me if I'd like to tweet about memrise (or mention it on FB), but that's trivially skipped. It seems that all the courses are downloadable (at least for the ones I've looked at). Although I've not tried this, I presume it wouldn't be too hard to pour them into Anki (or similar). Overall, it looks good so far, seems to have a healthy community and I don't feel that I'm risking anything by playing along. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ellsworth Senior Member United States Joined 4959 days ago 345 posts - 528 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish | Message 8 of 12 16 March 2012 at 12:20am | IP Logged | ||
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IMO seems pretty good especially for reluctant learners. My little sister is only 11 but
has already learned 500+ Hanzi in a couple of weeks. The way they present the learned cards, with flowers and faces is very appealing for her. It makes it into a very addictive game, similar to farmville on Facebook or something. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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