It was me @alanh 
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Oh, thatās OK. I had assumed it was Lien. 
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Thanks for this information Lien. Would it be possible to pro-actively communicate such a big change next time rather than leaving us wondering what is going on?
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Hi. Does anyone have an address of an old French a2 course?? Itās very important for me to find it, because itās rather more difficult to make each day goal set for 7 small courses, than for 2 big ones.
HI Nita,
when wanting to achieve a streak with little words to revise. I would recommend the quick review. If you are quick, with 50 points per word, you can review 30 words and gain the minimum 1500 points for a streak.
There was no official French A2, only A1.
Wish the removal of A1 or A2 had been communicated VIA private messages to current users, thanks for the links 
Hi, does anyone know why A2 French course disappeared? I found A1 French course very useful, so I am very sad not to find A2 to continue my learning.
There was no official A2 French course from Memrise. French 4, 5, 6, and 7 are approximately equivalent to what an A2 French course would have been like.
As @JonathanPeele mentioned, this was answered on this topic
In comparing the French A1 course and the seven-part introductory course that has replaced it, it looks like a real step backward. There seem to be far fewer phrases (itās important to start learning in sentences to get a feel for the grammar) and the helpful explanations that had been in the mems are no longer there. It is also easier to learn grammar if you understand why a sentence is constructed the way it is.
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Couldnāt agree more!
There are complete sentences, but now, there more phrases, fractions of sentences.
The Memrise mems were very helpful.
And, I think I have mentioned it before, the vocab is too unusual, not common enough.
For us who learn the language from the basics.
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I donāt think there are that many fewer phrases. A1 French was introduced in much the same way as French 1 through 7; Show several easy one or two word cards, then show a few relatively difficult phrase or sentence cards. I hear you about the sometimes helpful mems though. Still, the sheer quantity of cards containing new words, phrases, and sentences balances this out. Combining the new French decks totals more than a thousand more cards than A1 French. Of course, you can do better by starting with A1 French and then continuing with French 4 or 5; contrary to what Memrise claims, Iām not sure anything is introduced in French 4 that isnāt covered in A1 French.
Though, if you compare and contrast the official German decks, there is most probably a definite downgrade. If I learn German, I may choose to learn from the abandoned decks in addition to or instead of the current decks.
@JonathanPeele The A1/A2 courses were riddled with in accuracy and errors, and let alone less colloquial than the 1-7 courses. Also, they had more repetitive phrases in them.
I finished the A1 Spanish course and did Spanish 1-2 so far. The Spanish 1-7 courses are way much better than the A1 course. I wouldnāt use the A1 courses anymore. Also, if you do find errors in them. Donāt expect them to be fixed either.
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Iām so mad right now, Iāve been slowly working my way through Spanish A1 since March and just now found out that thereās a new course that replaced the one Iām taking. Iām not sure if they sent out an email announcing this or not but I get so many reminder emails from Memrise that I donāt usually look at them. There should have been a big blinking notification in the A1/A2 courses announcing the change. Iām debating if I should start over or continue on with A1. I was wanting to learn Latin American Spanish so the new Mexico course better lines up with my needs.
Relax. You have all possible choices. Why being mad ? If you really can not choose, and have the time, you can do both. You will get more reps.
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You can still finish the Spanish A1 course and transition to the Spanish 4 course, which as stated in the thread title is approximately the beginning of A2 Spanish. Donāt sweat much about the differences Spanish Spanish and Mexican Spanish; Itās not like youāre learning two different languages.
Iāll get over it in the fullness of time, probably. Iāve decided to start over and skip all the reviews until I get caught up to were I was. The new course seems to be organized quite a bit differently than the A1 course. Seems strange they didnāt transfer the memes over to the new course but I didnāt really use them that much. Overall the new course seems like a slight improvement.
Donāt forget to use the āignoreā button, instead of ignoring the reviews.
Go through the levels before learning them, and ignore all the words or phrases that would not help you. You can do it on the app and the website.
Iām in a similar position to you. I had completed A1 Spanish and was well into A2 Spanish when the new courses were introduced. The new ones are structured better but have an inconsistent way of dealing with singular/plural and formal/informal verb conjugation. I preferred the A1 course approach of including an annotation in the English column so that it was clear what was required. Some may say that this gave too big a clue, though!
You make a good point about not being to access the mems from the A1, A2, etc courses. I think this may be because the old and new courses draw from different databases. Elsewhere, I have asked the Memrise Team if there is any prospect of making the earlier mems available for selection in the new courses because there were some excellent ones amongst them. There were also a number of others that I had created myself and which were helpful to me that I now canāt take forward into the new courses. The quality/usefulness of the mems available for selection in the new courses are of mixed quality, to say the least, and include a lot of obvious āspammyā ones which serve no purpose and which, in my opinion, should be removed.
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