A course for … speakers

Not sure if it’s a bug or a feature :slight_smile: Anyway, when you are searching in the app for a course, you can choose what you want to learn, and I think that list is complete. However when you try to progress to the “for … speakers” the drop-down list is far from complete.

So for example my course (Swedish for Hungarian speakers) cannot be found from the app, which wouldn’t be too much of a trouble for me personally, but as it is a course for my fellow university students with whom I usually meet every day – they complain, and with good reason. They must login on the web first, find the course there* and then it might be synchronized to their apps. What is the point of a search function that doesn’t find what one is looking for?

*By the way, it is actually not that easy to find courses on the web either. If you look for, for example Swedish courses for Hungarian speakers (there are actually a few), you get the “by Memrise” courses, which are Swedish for English speakers. I can absolutely understand that they are official and therefore the most important, but they don’t actually fulfil the given criteria.
(It feels a bit like those Google ads, they are always the first hits, no matter what you were looking for – except at least in Google you see where the relevant hits begin, because they are different in colour.)

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I changed all my “…for Estonians” courses to “…for English speakers” that was the only way for them to come up on app searches.

Yeah, but that is idiotic in a way, isn’t it. :slight_smile:

I mean… it is not for English speakers, so while it is accessible through the app, it is also misleading, both for those, who speak Estonian and those, who speak English.

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I know… but it is the only way to make courses accessible. Otherwise they just don’t appear, like they don’t even exist

My point exactly. So this is either a bug or a LACK of a feature, and a very dumb one at that.

I don’t like being reminded that certain groups - like Estonian speakers, Hungarian speakers, etc. - are not worthy of being targeted :sweat:

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And it is not only app problem. In browser it is also keep changing back to English, so it is easier to make courses for English speakers but actually in Estonian