Alternatives to memrise?

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for malay learners: http://free.lessons.l-ceps.com/learn-malay-free-lesson-9.html
lingo was mentioned already, i think: https://l-lingo.com/en/learn-malay/lessons

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Hey @Darkskye_Ian_Test, if you edit your post after other people comment on it, you could at least acknowledge it. I almost missed your edit.

Anyway, thanks for the answer. “Manual” repetition basically equals no repetition.

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There’s a new Anki addon that does the same as memrise premium’s “current/longest streak”, with extra functions like checking which items are due to review each day clicking on the squares. Really nice!

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1771074083

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thanks, kaimi, did not even know they have such an active forum

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How to import stuff in anki from memrise?
I have installed the program, but don’t find a possibility to import something from memrise.

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I haven’t tested Memrise-to-Anki lately, but it was working as of December 2016.

More info here:

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i have to say that i tested anki a bit today with one of their desks, and i still prefer memrise, although memrise looks very empty since the mems are gone

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You can test it out more and let it grow on you. You can also install addons, if that’s what they’re called, to have it look and behave more like you want it to.

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I have to make my own desks in Anki, it is very cumbersome for me to edit the cards from already made desks - although, one has to admit it, one can find very fine deks in Anki …

it used to be very easy to edit cards in Anki, until some 6 years ago

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and i had to click myself on a button to say whether it was good or not,
maybe you can automate that

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why? that is the very point of Anki, that the learner choses if she considers to know an item well enough or not

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but then you’re back at using paper cards, i think
it’s better that the computer keeps track of your results and decides whether and when you have to learn something again

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you find it cumbersome to click on a tab??? what ever. Good luck with pen and paper, that is not a baad solution

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I used to hate that. Now I’m used to it because Pleco also uses it and it’s making sense to me. If you use the app or a shortcut you get used to it very quickly.

Only problem I still have with Anki is that it wants to unreasonably lengthen the review interval after I’ve been away for a while, I couldn’t get that to work the last time I tried it.

It does. You just have to give it right spacing algorithm to use, which you can edit in the settings.

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pity i already deinstalled it

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I installed the Memrise-to-Anki add-on in Anki but it keeps failing for me with the log-in credentials. It seems others mentioned this failure in the review notes as well. I was able to import (through copy and paste) part of one of my courses into Anki as a test case, but I could only bring over the text parts. No audio files. That’s a bummer, since it would be too time consuming for me to have to go through that exercise again in Anki (with literally hundreds or thousands of entries in some of my courses). Doing it once in Memrise was enough for me.

Also having to set up Notes fields to accommodate more than just the basic front/back test scenarios is (to me at least) not very well defined. I liked using some of the shared decks, but in all honesty, I have no real idea how they were set up, even after watching a lot of Youtube videos about the program.

There seems to be a definite learning curve with the setup of Anki, and I guess I am too old to try to re-invent the wheel again.

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give yourself some time to get re-accustomed to Anki, it will come back to you :slight_smile:

Anki looks for me a mess right now, but I know, if i use it again, maybe I can learn how to edit entries in the pre-made decks (which are inedeed fabulous, audio, images, sentences, everything one needs, but no communication with other users and no mems to choose from :cry:)

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we are specifically told not to do audio on memrise unless native speakers. My Spanish pronunciation is pretty good but I wouldn’t dare, all the audio I add comes from forvo and it’s all natives.

If you hear a non-native recording of a pronunciation you can report it to be deleted or to have the course unlisted.

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I beg your pardon??? why something should be deleted because it is not native???

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How can you even ask that question? If you want to do it with your own course that’s fine, but then make the course unlisted.

It used to be in the guidelines for the wiki, but I guess since there isn’t a wiki any more anything goes.