Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5011 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian
| Message 9 of 12 16 March 2012 at 3:47pm | IP Logged |
Yes, the addiction definitely helps :-)
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SueK Groupie United States Joined 4753 days ago 77 posts - 133 votes Studies: Mandarin
| Message 10 of 12 17 March 2012 at 12:00am | IP Logged |
I've been using memrise off and on for a couple of months. I have never been asked for a dime and have learned more than expected. Retention is suprisingly good.
I found a problem in using it early on. A minor annoyance, but I provided feedback and within a month there was an added feature that resolved my issue. I presume they were already working on it, but if you dig, you'll find they are very active in improving the site and very responsive to users.
Recently, I found a discussion with the author of the course I use, Ben Whately. He was actively soliciting feedback, responding to every user and offering future ideas for the site to see what interested people. Just now, I logged in to see that I had his name right and I see they've made a change. It's a font change that I had seen a discussion about. Users provided feedback that they'd had trouble reading in different fonts, and now the font used for Mandarin has been changed to assist.
For this kind of support, if they ask me to chip in, I will!
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atama warui Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 4703 days ago 594 posts - 985 votes Speaks: German*, English, Japanese
| Message 11 of 12 17 March 2012 at 4:11am | IP Logged |
I agree, the site staff is very responsive. I'm a curator for Japanese there now, and all the other curators make a nice team as well. If this some day follows the path of smart.fm, it'd be very sad indeed. Let's be optimistic..
For now, I'll try to get as much out of memrise as I possibly can. I regret I didn't do the same back then on smart.fm
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Zarmutek Newbie United States twitter.com/manueljoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4727 days ago 28 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 12 of 12 25 March 2012 at 8:40pm | IP Logged |
I'm using this site right now. It is pretty fun and addicting, especially when you try to compete with other
users. Before I was just using SpanishDict, but I like how this helps you remember words while enjoying it
at the same time.
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