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| Odin Newbie United States dieindiem.blogspot.c Joined 4828 days ago 3 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 1 of 17 05 October 2011 at 3:30am | IP Logged | ||
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About 6 months ago I discovered Memrise, which is
basically a very well-designed online flashcard system. There are thousands of words for several languages, and if they don't support a language you are trying to study, you can contribute your own flashcard set to add to the database. I really like it. Browsing this form, I also just discovered Anki, which I'm playing around with right now. It has its merits as well. Has anyone else tried Memrise? Thoughts? 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| jean-luc Senior Member France Joined 4772 days ago 100 posts - 150 votes  Speaks: French* Studies: German | Message 2 of 17 05 October 2011 at 12:50pm | IP Logged | ||
The mandarin example is really well done, combining vocabulary teaching (with mnemonics) and memorization. If the other languages have also this feature, it would be interesting for an English speaker to give a try. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kagemusha Newbie United States Joined 4736 days ago 35 posts - 42 votes Speaks: English* | Message 3 of 17 05 October 2011 at 2:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have tried it. I like it; but, the Japanese still has some bugs. It even gives a French
definition instead of English. I know they are new and working hard to clean up the decks. I will definitely go back and use it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Homogenik Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4636 days ago 314 posts - 407 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Polish, Mandarin | Message 4 of 17 05 October 2011 at 2:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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thanks for the Memrise link, it's a really good way to learn some characters I think, and it's quite fun just to pass the
time. I like some of their character descriptions, such as the one for Pig : A PERSON WHO DOES it on the Side with a SMALL DOG is certainly a PIG. Hehehe. 猪 edit : I'm addicted to this now. I like how the game shows new words in a logical way, first a simple character and then a character containing the previous one, and so on. And also I like how it mixes similar characters such as eight and man or to pick and vegetable. Edited by Homogenik on 05 October 2011 at 3:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fomalhaut Groupie United States Joined 4715 days ago 80 posts - 101 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 5 of 17 04 November 2011 at 4:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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yeah i'm ranked 280th, i've learned it says 1,500 words. that's in a 2 month period, not including my own Anki decks.
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| happycheeks Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4519 days ago 57 posts - 59 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 6 of 17 05 July 2012 at 9:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah I use Memrise. It's a really good website. I use it to build my vocabulary. I like
it. It looks fun and colourful. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5677 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 7 of 17 06 July 2012 at 2:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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I was using it extensively for a while. I created some FSI Chinese courses, so far I've finished adding all the vocab for modules 1-5, i think. I've also started putting up the vocab for the Princeton Russian course, too, up to maybe lesson 50 if anyone's interested.
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| languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 4912 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai | Message 8 of 17 08 July 2012 at 2:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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I use this website and have discovered it to be a really good tool for building
vocabulary, especially for things such as Japanese Kanji. I started using the website as an "experiment" so to say, as I have epilepsy of the temporal lobe - that part of the brain being where memories are stored, I've found that gradually as my seizures have decreased in number, my memory has obviously increased and I can go to memorise somewhat 90 to 95% of the words in my "memory garden" without hesitance, whereas when I was having seizures at high rates, I could barely remember anything more than 3 words at a time. So I definitely think that overall, the website is very good and especially with what they've just done - with the little tweaking - it's got a lot better and I'm sure it will in the future! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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