This topic is very relevant at this time, so I will lift it up.
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Iâve been using a website called Kitsun.io. Itâs a project thatâs less than 1 year old and itâs mainly focused on the Japanese market (but works for any language really). A lot of the features are already superior to what Memrise offers. The concept of community decks there is lovely. The downsides are that it wonât be free once it gets out of beta and that it doesnât have apps available. The web version for Android works well though.
Hi, this is Volker, the author of Memorion, a very function-rich flashcard management app for Android, based on a spaced-repetition algorithm and offering learning games very similar to Memrise.
App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.MemorionSoft.MemorionV2
Intro Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BukBnA28Fvs
One of my users pointed out the upcoming problems with Memrise to me. He migrated his cards via Anki into Memorion (Memorion can read Anki .apkg files).
In the recent version 10 of Memorion I made some tweaks to be able to import cards via MemriseUtilities into Memorion. Please follow this step-by-step guide:
Once âDecksâ will be available, I will see what I can do to import cards directly from it. At the moment it is to early to say what will be possible.
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hi Volker
thank you very much. That would be great.
Vielen Dank!
There is a website that letâs you create a personalised audio trainer based on your vocabulary or phrase lists. You just need to upload translated sentences and it creates a mp3 file that you can listen to on your commute. Itâs not really an alternative but rather an addition to the mentioned other sources.
Update (02 December 2021):
As it turns out, Anki does have a »typing only« feature and existing courses in the Anki ecosystem can easily be changed to »typing only«. I had last looked into Anki many years ago and therefore thought it was still tedious to change card types, but now itâs easy.
Previous question:
Anybody know of an alternative to memrise, which offers »typing only« as a feature and is not a smartphone app, but may be used old school in a web browser?
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Have you tried TOFU learn? It has a mix of mupltiple choice and typing in the learning mode, you can select typing mode only for reviews.
I wasnât aware of it. Does it use a spaced repeat system similar to classic Memrise?
Yes, it works in the similar way. No bulk import, but you can transfer Anki format files.
Iâve been trying Tofu the past few weeks. Itâs much much more limited than classic memrise, and it also has far fewer âcoursesâ (or decks or whatever) available. But itâs better than nothing, and with classic memrise mostly un-usable now, tofu seems to be the best alternative, or sorts.
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Why apps? Why not a decent website?
Several of the alternatives people have discussed in this thread are web sites. Did you get the impression that we only wanted to talk about mobile apps? (For example, Tofu, which the previous few comments are about, is a web site)
Hi. We are developing LARA an Open Source language learning application for which weâd love feedback. It has to be accessed through chrome or firefox and is not developed for mobile phone use.
It is focussed on learning language by reading (which is why it needs a bigger screen than a phone), but with audio and all sorts of gadgets for helping the reader. It has strong support for minority languages including Old Norse, Irish and Icelandic Sign Language, but there is content for lots of languages. EG alphabet books including Arabic and French, The Little Prince project in French, English, Italian, and incomplete in various other languages. Volunteer native voices very welcome - we have a very simple online recording tool. There is an ongoing project to do The Edda, and some Barngarla, which is a revived Indigenous Language in the South of Australia. Thereâs English, Danish, Farsi, SwedishâŠ
Weâd love people to try it out and give feedback if they want.
Does anyone know of resources to replace Mems with another system that includes the use of pictures? I tried gathering my own pictures and trying to make my own flashcards, but Iâm really not computer-literate enough for that task. The pictures donât have to be Mems, just illustrative pictures would be great. Ideal would be generic cards with English on the opposite side, and space to write the translation on the picture side. Someone should make those for use with less-common languages, or for people who are learning multiple language. Itâs very hard to find Swahili-learning resources, even though itâs spoken by over 98 million people. Thanks.