During my course, I occasionally misclick or mistype a word, which automatically gets tagged as a ‘difficult word’. If I don’t quickly un-tag it as a difficult word as it pops up, then there’s no way for me to un-tag it as a difficult word unless either I A) Sign Up for Memrise Pro, or B) wait for it to come around again by chance in a review, out of several hundred other review words. This is very frustrating because I can’t disable the ‘Difficult Words Review’ lesson from automatically coming up every few lessons, which also requires me to Sign Up for Memrise Pro, and disrupts the experience.
If there is actually a way to do this, then my complaint is that it’s unintuitive to find, to the point that I cannot.
Windows 10, running Firefox (I don’t know the version)
Steps to Reproduce:
Get a prompt wrong
Miss the ‘un-tag difficult word’ button on the prompt before the screen changes Screenshots:
Image Description: Two images; The first is the course’s ‘Difficult Words’ tab; The header says “Your most difficult words”, and underneath it says “Sign up today to try it out!” instead of the difficult words. There is no way to remove difficult words from the list, since they are not shown.
The second image is the course’s “Choose Your Session” box; Learn New Words, Classic Review, and Speed Review are all available, while Difficult Words, Listening Skills, and Learn with Locals are locked because I don’t have a subscription to Memrise PRO. However, the Difficult Words option still has a notification “1”, indicating there is a Difficult Word to review, even though I can’t review it because I don’t have a subscription to Memrise PRO.
Unfortunately, the effect (if not the purpose) of that is to sort of bully you into paying for pro. You can’t make the notification function go away. You can only get each flagged word right 3x in a row in order to make the number go down, which theoretically means the number eventually goes away (assuming you don’t get anything else wrong, which needless to say isn’t the best way to train your SRS, because 0 difficult words is probably not the case if you’re actually learning). Try, if you can, to pretend the number/category is not there. The word(s) will still be repeated more frequently if you get it/them wrong, until you answer correctly enough times to space the prompts out again.
I’m not capable. I have way too many obsessive tendencies when it comes to computer-related things (and organizational/list-related loose ends in general) to let something hang out there like that, so I caved and paid again because it was making me crazy every time I saw it. If you are capable of ignoring it though, I suggest you do. They are not making any updates or improvements to classic Memrise anymore, so this is just how it is, per them.
I’m not sure because I have a lifetime sub, but, on the web, can you try to:
click your profile icon on the top right
go to your learning statistics
on the top right, you should see a “difficult words” button - click that (yes, I know - nobody would expect it there …)
This should really bring up all DWs (across all languages/courses). Depending on how many courses you took, this might take a whole while (took around two minutes here!)
My interface is German, but it should look like this:
The page has its own URL, so you can also go there directly: → difficult words
