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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 9 of 13 27 February 2013 at 7:58am | IP Logged | ||
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I recently gave Memrise another try.
Nearly nothing I had against it was changed even though I was far from being the only one complaining. Instead of fixing things that people were not content with in beta and adding those users were calling for (and those users often even got affirmative responses from the staff on forum like "that sounds good, we're considering that"), instead of all this they removed half of what people loved and made things "prettier". No matter the costs in usefulness. And they don't mind losing part of the old users, so they don't make positive changes. I don't want to worry about development of a website whose creators went crazy. I need a tool I can count with no matter what. I am willing to pay for a good tool, I bought the anki app and it is not so cheap. But it is worth every cent. Memrise now isn't worth even my time. 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 10 of 13 27 February 2013 at 8:22am | IP Logged | ||
Anki is much better than iKnow, especially if you don't feel like using core10k... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Melya68 Diglot Senior Member France Joined 4296 days ago 109 posts - 126 votes Speaks: French*, English | Message 11 of 13 27 February 2013 at 10:51am | IP Logged | ||
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I've never used Anki (well, I tried...) but I used Memrise several times. I haven't checked the website out in a long time so I can't comment on what other people are saying but I used to like it a lot. I can't say I learned the words I "watered" that well, but the website was very entertaining and I loved the leaderboards.
I have a few issues with Anki, namely that it ties me to my computer and that I find it pretty boring/ ugly. I hate smartphones and tablets so I don't care for fancy online or offline apps. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tyr Senior Member Sweden Joined 5787 days ago 316 posts - 384 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish | Message 12 of 13 28 February 2013 at 12:48am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm really not a fan of anki, I tried that long before memrise and on several occasions since but it just doesnt work for me. I find paper flash cards better than anki/
I'm not sure why, there's just something about it which feels very unresponsive, I always end up repeating the same few words time after time and never actually learning them. Forgetting words when they dissapear for a month. And other badness. I'm not sure on the idea of paying for something... Edited by Tyr on 28 February 2013 at 1:13am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| SteveRidout Diglot Groupie Spain readlang.com Joined 4287 days ago 65 posts - 121 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 13 of 13 06 March 2013 at 12:08pm | IP Logged | ||
I wonder if you could give some more details here. I've tried memrise a couple of times and it seemed OK, my main gripes were: - it repeated cards too frequently - the 'growing sessions' involved too many mouse/keyboard actions - the pre-prepared decks weren't well matched to my level, they were too easy I didn't spend time to see how easy it was to create custom decks of cards, etc. I'd really like to know what drove you away, especially the things you liked but which they removed when they made it prettier. (Disclosure: I'm interested because I'm working on my own site, currently in open beta, for reading and SRS.) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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