I swear I remember there being an option to mark words you have already learned in some other course, or was that a dream?
What I’m asking is, is there a way to mark the words in Spanish Mexico courses that I have already learned in Spanish Spain courses? I would like to just be left with words/phrases that are different. Is ignore my only option?
Thank you for your time.
You may be thinking of the ‘auto-ignore’ feature which would remove all the words you had previously learned in another course. They took it down some time ago because it was buggy for courses which didn’t use the Latin alphabet.
Someone then created an auto-ignore userscript but I’m not sure if it still works. You could do a search on ‘scripts’ and see if there is some recent discussion.
Otherwise, I think it’s a case of ignoring individual words. 
Yes, now when I know what it was called I found a photo and yes that’s it. I have never used it but I remember that there was something.
I’ll look up that script. Thank you.
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ahhmm, you’re sure that was the real reason? i strongly suspect they claimed not many people used it - an in fact was easting resources that had to go to the ziggy and shrill colours (btw, worked fine for me for Chinese and Japanese…)
That´s how I remember it from the time, Niamh, but you may well be right. A bit of ‘digging’ uncovered this:
http://web.archive.org/web/20160506125654/http://www.memrise.com/thread/1807498/
Are you using the App? If you get a word you already know, you can click on the three dots under the flower and select ignore. Works for me.
If there are many you know, then go into the level on the webbrowser, select ‘Ignore’, select ‘All’ and choose save. Then deselect the few you still want to study. The works if you want to study less than 50%.
You can use the keyboard for selecting/deselecting and that goes quite fast - space bar and arrow up/down.
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Yes, use ignore.
“Auto_ignore” feature is not available anymore, as already pointed out.
“Auto_learn” will not mark those words for skipping for next reviews.
It is a built-in feature for course-owners and course-contributors to SKIP to process of having to plant words 6 times (until the flower is completely grown).
You can use Cooljingle’s “auto_learn” user script to fully plant a single (e.g quite easy - or quite difficult if you want to do it a 2nd/3rd time across 2-3 courses) word, which you do not want to skip/ignore for the next review process in the current course.
Memrise is not AnkiSRS or SuperMemo; there are not really many features / options to help you customize the courses you learn and avoiding duplicates.
You either recognize them manually with/without ignore, reviewing them a 2nd time (with the choice of auto-planting with “auto_learn”) or you have to “learn” and review them (the six flower steps) a 2nd/3rd/4th time in multiple courses.
Love it - hate it - change (which we can’t) or accept it - leave it.
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