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This course contains many duplicate words. There are more than 2000 words instead of 1000. Would be great if they could be filtered out.
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This comment has been made several times in the old forums as well. The repetition is a design feature of the course which some people like and others dislike, and I donât expect there would be any agreement reached about whether repetition is good or bad. (Personally, I like it.)
But here is the good news for you: if you prefer it, there is actually another version of the course without the repetition: http://www.memrise.com/course/48222/duplicate-removed-1000-words-of-elementary-german/
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Thank you for help.
Duplicates will definitely remain in this course.
Not a question, however it seems that in level 4, the word for âto watchâ is the wrong word. Presently itâs translated as âdie Uhrâ, which means âhourâ instead. The correct translation would be âansehenâ.
Other than this small mistake, the course has been great up until now! 
Hallo thegreatdutchman
die Uhr means the clock, 
hour means die Stunde,
die Armbanduhr is the watch [wristwatch] not to watch
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Hello there,
you always need to look at âPart of Speechâ field during this course. Word âwatchâ is ânounâ, so it is not âto watchâ, it is, as mentioned before, âthe watchâ. There is a lot of such tricky words in this course, so looking at âPart of Speechâ is important in time of doubt.
Having finished this course here are some thoughs.
Donât like the repetitions. Memrise already does that for you. Having simple known words pop up and require six actions to dismiss makes me want to pull out a six-shooter and politely put a stop to their double-dipping days.
Is the tootal number of words 1025 or 1026? I might have politely eliminated one too many. Oops? Or, are some of them triple-dippers? The horror!
But I see there is some humor in the placement, like in die Kunst, das Werk, der MĂźll! and also in the repetitive placements, though all my examples have been politely shot. Fun is great and funny mems are the best, so good work there. I can only wish I could do humor.
Hmm, also, âto keepâ perhaps isnât the best translation of âhaltenâ when put in context, between censored and detained.
Finally, I canât find a reason why your days of the week are not uniformly articled. And why the odd/even separation, exactly? Is this like a secret handshake in Germany, or a sign of the times? Will other words be discarding their gender too and will we have transwords? Or is this the -ismus society testing the waters for their possible return by sending Tagismus ahead to scout? And who do we call? Should we even worry with such a weak move? Or is this move purposefully calculated to lull us into complacency? And will anyone even ever read this?
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Hallo! My question is word ââsteckenââ correct translation for ââto setââ? Its kind of a problem in reviews because there is also choice ââstellenââ which I believe its more common use of verb ââto setââ. Thanks in advance for support.
no. That would be a very loose interpretation. Itâs more like to stick something.
So do you mean ââstick sometingââ for stecken or for stellen?
for stecken.
to place or set is closer to stellen.
I also think like that. But in exercise it shows ââsteckenââ as a ââto setââ ---- instead of stellen.
Hello,
many of the words in this course have audio and I wondered why I canât practice the Listening skills. I thought that to automatically âunlockâ the option, all words must have the audio, but recently I found out that itâs a feature that has to be enabled by the creator. Itâs in the Edit course -> Details -> Audio mode enabled. I quite like this course and it would be great if we could do more practise 
Canât find such an option in Details. Maybe because Iâm not a creator of this course, but was added as admin later?
Youâre right - I just checked a couple of courses, and the âAudio mode enabledâ check-box option is only available for those Iâve created. The option does not show up for contributors to a course.
This is a relatively new feature and lots of courses are not supported by course creators, but rather by course contributors. So such courses will never have this feature turned on, I guess.
I asked Memrise about the issue about a year ago, but didnât get a reply.
Hello, Iâm having trouble during this course that sometimes audio does not work. Even for words that I know this course has audio, they donât always reproduce and that leaves me stranded. Any fix for this?
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Audio doesnât seem to work for some words that have it
I think itâs the ones having 2 audios