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| Tyr Senior Member Sweden Joined 5787 days ago 316 posts - 384 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish | Message 1 of 13 22 February 2013 at 2:57am | IP Logged |
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Anyone else here ever used memrise?
It used to be absolutely amazing for learning vocabulary. I learned so much through it. Then though they went and chnaged it. Made it very flashy and slow and...yeah. It just isn:t very good at all for those people who are serious about learning a language, its a toy now. Does anyone know of any good alternatives to memrise that will help me to improve my Japanese vocabulary in this way? My studies are going pretty badly at the moment. My kanji is on track, I can learn kanji well enough, even my listening is improving; the 'get a Japanese girlfriend' method does work it seems. But my non-kanji reliant vocabulary is really lagging behind. I'm wanting to try and take JLPT level 3 this year but at the rate I'm going I might have to take the safe route and go for level 4. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| RedBeard Senior Member United States atariage.com Joined 6107 days ago 126 posts - 182 votes Speaks: Ancient Greek* Studies: French, German | Message 2 of 13 22 February 2013 at 5:47am | IP Logged |
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I have very little experience with memrise, but have been using ANKI for some time now. There is a web interface like memrise, but also a standard interface for your home computer. This way you can study from your main machine - or anywhere that you have internet access. They recently upgraded the interface to 2.0, so it is a bit nicer.
There are many pre-made card decks to choose from including lots of Japanese decks. https://ankiweb.net/account/login :wq! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4656 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 3 of 13 22 February 2013 at 11:55am | IP Logged |
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For Anki, you don't need internet access at all if you're starting and pre-made decks are at too advanced level. If you're not using sync or downloading pre-made decks, you don't need internet at all.
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5014 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 4 of 13 22 February 2013 at 3:44pm | IP Logged |
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I loved Memrise Beta too and left after the changes.
Anki is awesome. It doesn't look so nice (but neither does the new Memrise, despite the attempts). You can use it both online and offline, you can use only the computer and online version for free (so you can study on more computers without trouble) or get the app which costs relatively a lot but Without Any Trouble syncronises with your desktop anki (and you can get help at the forum from the anki creator very fast, he really cares about the users) and you can back up everything this way very easily. You are free to make any content and order it the exact way you want. No stupid "levels" or premade wikis. If you wish, you CAN make the type in exercise but making such cards is quite a pain. (I use paper while revieweing if I feel the need). Better scheduling system. No ceiling. And every word is scheduled independently, based on your knowledge of the word, no stupid levels interfering here. ..... Another, perhaps awesome but more costly alternative: Scritter. I have accidentaly found it when looking for language apps and when I get to learning Mandarin or Japanese (could happen anytime during next ten or fifteen years :-) ), I will surely get it. It does have a computer version and for several more platforms (ipads, android, tablets or phones etc.). It looks even better than memrise or anki because it requires you as well to draw the kanji/hanzi/kana you are learning. It has vocab lists based on commonly used courses and you can, of course, make your own lists too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4878 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 5 of 13 22 February 2013 at 5:02pm | IP Logged |
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AnkiDroid, which works great now, is also free. ;)
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| fleurdeneige Diglot Pro Member France Joined 5045 days ago 11 posts - 16 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 13 26 February 2013 at 8:45pm | IP Logged |
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Depending on when you quit Memrise you might want to give it another try. I left last
December but have recently gone back and for me, it's good again - at least as concerns Italian. They also seem to be making an effort to keep people informed on developments with a weekly update post and the ignore feature is back. Plus I really like the automatic SRS as opposed to the decisional SRS. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Bobb328 Groupie Canada Joined 4590 days ago 52 posts - 78 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 7 of 13 27 February 2013 at 3:45am | IP Logged |
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Really hasn't slowed down for me at all. I'm typing in my Assimil vocab (so I guess I wouldn't know since I'm using a
course I made myself) but I find it a million times better than Anki. I don't even have to really try and I just learn the words. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| atama warui Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 4706 days ago 594 posts - 985 votes Speaks: German*, English, Japanese | Message 8 of 13 27 February 2013 at 4:46am | IP Logged |
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Memrise has taken a nosedive and the staff is extremely unresponsive.
You're way better off with ANKI or, if you learn Japanese, iknow.co.jp 1 person has voted this message useful |
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