Post: #1

gentlemen!

i've been using memrise for the last few weeks to learn some spanish, and i recently found out that they now have an app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...nion&hl=de

the app is really amazing, lets you learn both online and offline (dowloading whole courses takes some time). also syncs your offline progress with your online progress from time to time!

hope this is not a dupe, couldnt find anything using the search

cheers

Post: #2

How does it work?

How far have you come along?

How advanced does it go?

Post: #3

I used the memrise site to practice spanish for a while but stopped using it because it requires you to type in accents for everything, really retarded. I use duolingo instead.

Post: #4

What do you mean "type in accents"? As in accents on letters, like you're supposed to when you use the Spanish language? If so, that doesn't sound too retarded to me...

Post: #5

(06-16-2013 07:20 PM)MattC Wrote:  What do you mean "type in accents"? As in accents on letters, like you're supposed to when you use the Spanish language? If so, that doesn't sound too retarded to me...

To me, having to stop typing to key in the accents gets really tedious when you're working through lots of vocab stacks.

Post: #6

Yes, well, the difference between anos and años is quite stark.

Post: #7

Absolutely love memrise, but I do feel it's more of a brute force, hard repetition approach. Same way I learned typing in grade 10, index finger F to T over and over for 40 minutes. Because of that I think its better.

On one hand, I completely sympathize with the accents. If I have 5 minutes free, I try and quickly over water 25 or 50 words. In the time it takes to find one accent (especially if you don't have such a keyboard), you probably could have done 5 normal examples.

On the other hand, who cares? I'll often get something wrong because I typed in a synonym. How was I supposed to know which one of the 37 Eskimo words they wanted for snow? That said who cares? Oh no! the software marked you wrong. Had you put the accent in, would it have been right? Worry about if its right or not *for you* with or without accent. It's a slight hassle having to click 2-3 extra times to bypass typing it in right, but oh well. What you consider right and what the software considers right can be different, and truth be told, your score there doesn't matter.

I do wish it was more of a wiki system where people could go in and make small edits to things which are slightly wrong though.

Post: #8

(06-16-2013 07:25 PM)billbudsocket Wrote:  

(06-16-2013 07:20 PM)MattC Wrote:  What do you mean "type in accents"? As in accents on letters, like you're supposed to when you use the Spanish language? If so, that doesn't sound too retarded to me...

To me, having to stop typing to key in the accents gets really tedious when you're working through lots of vocab stacks.

How is your keyboard configured? In mine, you dont "stop" in to key accents any more than you stop to key uppercases.

Shift + A: A

´ + A : á

you press the same ammount of keys.

And thats in Windows. In Ubuntu its even easier to type even rarer "accents" like the german umlaut or the french cedille.

Post: #9

i had the problem with the accents as well, but the app gets rid of that completely. to type in words, they give you a bunch of buttons with letters on them and you just press the ones you need to spell the word.

i think i doubled my daily vocab volume because the app is so much easier and more fun to handle

cheers