FYI, @hung-phan, in the example I gave in the screen shot, it is NOT necessary for the semicolon itself to be tapped for the answer to be accepted. I think that this is correct behaviour, since the separator itself is not part of the required answer. (It is ignored if it is tapped, and is shown in white, compared to the correct words which are shown in green, in the screen which confirms the answer.)
@EHurtt Elizabeth, can you please add me to the list of contributors on this course? I will do my best not to break anything!
Thanks, Robert
@dylan.nicholson.548 - thanks, if it is you who has been making the changes from commas to semi-colons.
Thanks @misxifRM,
I know the problem. It is explained in this post.
In the meantime, I can help you gather all the problems for your courses and present to the team. Hope that help. I cannot promise anything else.
Hello @hung-phan, thanks for documenting what happens in the different cases.
When will the tapping interpretation of the semi-colon and slash separators be aligned with the typing interpretation?
Hi @misxifRM,
For tapping test, it is correct that you don’t have to select semi colon in the alternative from.
die Aufmerksamkeit -en will work.
And for this question,
I am afraid that I cannot answer that. It is product question. You should ask other people for it or follow the post on
Yes, I changed them all, but at least for me it’s not actually working.
(fortunately I have a user script that overcomes the semi-colons not working, which also worked even with the comma version, but ideally nobody should need to install such a thing)
@hung-phan - in fact, there may be a confusion about courses, and perhaps I have contributed to the confusion!
The course that I have been working with is the one in the link which I sent you earlier: 5000 Words (top 87%) sorted by frequency - by Miłek - Memrise
Here is a screenshot of the header of this course:
The course you are referring to is the one at: 5000 German Words (top 87%) - by Paul_Wilson - Memrise
However, notice now that this course (number 920 apparently) is the one said to be created by Paul_Wilson, and matches the title of this forum thread.
My apologies if I have extended my own confusion to anyone else. (These two courses are very similar, but I chose to do the one at 5000 Words (top 87%) sorted by frequency - by Miłek - Memrise because the words are ordered by frequency of use, and because there is vocalisation of nearly every word.)
I think that the course that @dylan.nicholson.548 has updated is the “sorted by frequency” course (ie, the one I was referring to earlier, and not the one which I see now is the course referred to by this forum thread). I believe that the “5000 German Words” course (not the one sorted by frequency) still has commas and not semicolons.
Right, @misxifRM. I believe that @dylan.nicholson.548 can help you in the meantime for changing that. Additionally, it is a way to use script to only highlight whether a word contains a comma. PM me if you want to help for that course @dylan.nicholson.548 (Thanks a lot).
However, I believe @dylan.nicholson.548’s way will be faster. You can contact him to get the script. I cannot provide you a massive changing script for the reason that it will not good for our software.
Congrats on not to fix this bug for 1 month now. I will recommend it to everyone!
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Or Hung you could just execute back-end SQL queries for us, which would be a good deal faster and less taxing on the system!
But honestly my script issued maybe 20 extra API calls per minute over 10-15 minutes, which in the context of the load you must be handling all the time is a drop in the ocean.
Hi @dylan.nicholson.548, that will require permission and prioritization from the team. I cannot make decision on my own, however, let me ask for you. Hope that it will not be destructive. I am not promising it will be accepted though.
I think the problem with comma using as separator is that there are some situations we cannot define whether people use it as separator or just a normal punctuation of sentence. For example,
I met Harry, we went for a swim together, and afterwards Harry went home
Additionally, we add more feature to ; and / to support the permutations. You can type many variations of it. For example, in typing test, given a sentence like xxx ; yyy ; zzz you can type
xxx
yyy
zzz
xxx yyy zzz
xxx zzz yyy
yyy xxx zzz
yyy zzz xxx
zzz xxx yyy
zzz yyy xxx
Sorry Robert - will add you now. Btw I’ve not done any practice the past couple of days but with the change to semi-colons, does this mean they HAVE to be entered? Disaster for me because I’ve 4 years of practising with commas 
I really must read these posts more carefully – the commas are being changed on another course altogether!
Robert - please don’t change the commas to semi-colons! The best method I think for this course would be to go into edit mode and create an alternative solution without the plural. I’ve done it for der Tag so you can see what I mean.
Go into Edit, chose Database (german) Then enter Tag. If you run the cursor over the entry you’ll get a little window saying ‘Alt’. Clicking on that brings up boxes to enter alternatives/synonyms. If you put an underscore (_) in front of the word it doesn’t appear on the page when practising - just stops things getting cluttered up. thanks Elizabeth
Hi Hung,
Asking you this in private as it’s my own course and nobody else seems to be doing it, but I have an issue (which I’ve seen before with other courses) where there’s discrepancy between how many words the dashboard thinks are in the course and that I’ve learnt, vs how many there actually are:
There are actually 1025 words and I’ve learned 1017 of them, but the dashboard says I’ve learned 1000/1052. At a couple of points the “Learn” button was available even though I’d technically learned all the words (but have since added more).
Something you can fix?
Dylan
I actually recreated all the levels and it might be ok now. btw the auto create levels tool is good but there needs to be an option to delete existing levels first out even only add words not already in levels. tbh I’ve never understood why memrise supports having the same word in multiple levels on one course (but then no way to find out which levels a word occurs on).