I suppose a description is more helpful than a video. Also, this video would get pretty lengthy as you have to go through sessions, so here’s a description:
go to one course and do a repetition session (or whatever else)
after the session ended, switch to a different course (I always do these in a row from bottom to top)
tap the three dots button and start i. e. an upcoming review (you may have to do this quickly)
You might have to try this a few times - the problem doesn’t always happen, but very frequently.
Particularly if you don’t wait until the app does whatever scrolling it seems to require doing. Sometimes waiting a while doesn’t help either.
Also notable is the fact that, for a good many weeks, the course list will take a few seconds to update when switching between courses.
For instance, I usually keep older/finished courses in my “personal order” and work through the list from bottom to top. This means that some courses may have no words to be reviewed in which case I tap them once (so they remain in the order I want them), wait for the course screen to come up, then go back to the course list / dashboard and select the next course. When doing this quickly for two courses, the first course will not have been moved away from its position in the dashboard to the top of the list. For that to happen, I’d have to wait 1-3s until it gets removed from its original position therein.
Did you notice a pause of some seconds (1.5-2) they have added after each audio? If a course contains audio files it takes about 2-3 minutes more than before to finish speed (50+50) or classic reviews. They did it maybe a month ago.
Not really, but what has changed (IDK, maybe 2 months ago?) is that, during speed reviews, the app now waits until the audio of an item has finished completely. Before the change, i. e. long sentences were simply cut off by the next item. I actually liked that quite a lot as it made the whole thing a lot quicker!
BTW, speed review is called turbo in the German version which I think no longer really applies since the change …
I have a new issue that I have come across due to changing my learning approach.
I’m working on a bunch of (community) courses with hard to learn vocab. In order to better force stuff into my brain, I learn words. After the second cycle (all completely “learned”), I do between 1-3 speed review sessions on the level they are in.
Also, I tend to use the following procedure when working on those courses:
review any words up for review (SRS)
speed review over the last 1-2 levels and/or the course as a whole
Both the above procedures seem to prevent such repeated words from ever showing up on a standard review session - the regular review obviously only contains words that I either answered wrongly or that haven’t been repeated for a longer (!) time.
This leads me to the conclusion that a word’s SRS score is being updated (“watered”) every time you do a speed review.
Now I recall that you changed speed reviews in the not too distant past. A speed review will now repeat words that are up for review first, watering them along the way. Also, when a speed review is being used instead of a regular review, the speed review will only test the words that are up for review.
Thus, a speed review does update the SRS score of a word that was up for (classic) review.
While I suppose it’s OK to alternatively have a means of reviewing words via a speed review (handy for courses with hundreds or even thousands of words up for review), it’s very much preventing us from doing additional repetitions when repeating words that are not up for (SRS-) review.
Gee, you’re right! There’s actually two different issues - the one that I thought #5 referred to was the fact that, when moving from one course to a different one and then started a (whatever) session, that session was started with the formerly selected course, not the current one. So what I meant was actually #7, so cheers for correcting that!
I obviously completely misinterpreted your thread there. I was under the impression that the influence on SRS repetitions only affected words that were up for review. But I’m sure it affects words regardless of whether they’re up for review or not. I actually like the former, but the latter is effectively hindering one’s learning process.
I haven’t seen this issue ever since they changed the dashboard. It takes a while for me to locate “my next course” as I have to scroll like crazy, but once I pick a course, everything’s just fine.
Also, I have a couple of official courses which I keep in the loop (sorted from course 1 to 7 or in between, where appropriate), so I’ll check on the dashboard whether there’s any words up for review, then I select the first course (say “Swedish 1”). The course (due to having been finished) will scroll to the bottom which allows me to just tap the next course (i. e. “Swedish 2”).
Assuming the first course with words up for review is “Swedish 4” then I’d quickly change from 1 through 4 and then hit the “Review” button. This hasn’t been a problem as of yet.
In the begginning I had the same impression: it worked OK. At the moment I see this problem every now and then. Maybe they’ve changed something in latest updates?
Nope, Olaf, I won’t confuse two of them. On my device previous course bug happens quite regularly, despite of the new dashboard. I had it 4-5 times yesterday. As for timeout/bad connection problem, yeah, saw it too, but that’s a different story.
Hello, sorry if this is the wrong place for this but:
The audio almost never plays for the first second or so. It will play, but with the first part cut off. This is only an issue with Bluetooth, it seems to work fine when using my phone speaker. I tried searching for this issue and it looks like people were reporting this since 2017, but I couldn’t find a fix…
Memrise v. 2.94_19853
Moto g6, Android version 9, PPSS29.118-15-11-9
Sorry, @Gian_Ralph68, I completely overlooked your posting.
I have the same issue, but it’s nothing Memrise can do anything about as it is connected to the way the devices work. I’ve tried several devices and all have the exact same problem. Both with Memrise and Duolingo, BTW.
It could be connected to some sort of power-saving “feature”, i. e. the device turns off the radio connection right away when the sound stops and then needs some time to re-establish the connection.
For about 2 or 3 weeks there’s a new problem: the app is very slow when loading the dashboard (3-5s) or when loading the chapters of a course, i. e. when switching to a different course (3s - ad infinitum!).
Very often I do have to kill the app and restart it as, otherwise, the spinning wait-indicator is all I get.
Sometimes I even have to restart the device!
Anybody else with this problem? I’ve seen it appear elsewhere too, i.e. here and here.
@MemriseSupport, @JBorrego (are you still around? Haven’t seen you in ages!): this is really getting more and more irritating. Please deal with this ASAP!
Yes, exactly the same for me on both my android devices.
It is very frustrating especially when doing multiple courses.
While the chapters are attempting to load you can still start a review, new word etc. session or even try to switch to a different course.(strange)
it is also very slow loading a review or speed review session when there are no (scheduled) words to review.
@MemriseSupport, @JBorrego et al: I can add that I cannot reliably reproduce the behaviour, but I very often get this when I change to a course and then tap i. e. the review icon without waiting for the course data to have loaded.
Another good way to produce this is by repeatedly starting and cancelling a learning session. This is what I often do in official Memrise courses when I want to go through, say, 3 new words and - due to the new “quick learning feature” I end up with two words that have been completely learned and one still requiring another appearance - I always try to have all new words learned completely, so I start a new learning session until that one word shows up. Usually it requires 1-5 sessions to see that word as the first one of the session.
