[Course Forum] 6000 Intermediate Advanced Audio EXPRESSIONS by @Polpo_D

@Polpo_D
Level 47 - You’ve added two new sentences, both of which contain “del altro” rather than “dell’altro”

Here’s two other things:

Level 1
Lo farò.= I will.
Other than all other items I’ve come across (I just started and have only gotten to L5) this ends with a period which is quite nasty.
Other than that: shouldn’t this translate to I will do it?

Level 5:
È troppo disturbo = Don’t go out of your way
Though this might be correct, I haven’t ever come across this. My suggestion would be to change this to:
Se non è troppo disturbo = If you don’t mind

Level 33:
Fa venire = It gives you, It causes
Che rimanga tra noi = Just between us
The above two are duplicates.

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Hi Polpo (@Polpo_D),

Are you still around?

I see the word-count has risen from 1100 to 3000 (and now includes “Advanced”). Well done.

Are you able to address some of the issues that have cropped up in the last 28 months?

Cc @Olaf.Rabbachin @Angharad.Merfin

I stumbled on them as well. Should be dell’altro, not del altro, right? Not quite sure though.

I suppose @Polpo_D didn’t make you a contributor, right? He seems to have disappeared, so I might attempt to become a contributor to fix things, I’ve come across quite a few more in the meantime …

No, I don’t think he disappeared, he has been always very consistently working on his courses, maybe he is in summer vacation or busy at work, who knows.
It would be very helpful anyway if he accepted the help offered instead running it as a one man show, leaving errors uncorrected for months. I completely understand you @Polpo_D being careful with your amazing course, but maybe you reconsider accepting the help offered. It is just annoying to see the same little errors over and over again, without beeing able to do anything about it.

Well, I beg to differ - his last forum login was in July 2018 …

Yes, but he does work on his course every few weeks, if I am not mistaken. There are regularly added one or two new expressions to levels I had previously completed, you might check it yourself.

Have you ever tried the message-function to contact him? Might be worth trying.

Ah, well that’s a different story then, cool!
I haven’t noticed that yet, I’m only a few hundred words into the course.

I’ll do that, good idea!

Hey Olaf, any news from Polpo? Should we asked for becoming contributors? I think, there is a special thread for abandoned courses in the forum.

Well, I followed him right now, and he has been learning this week. So he’s not gone, he just doesn’t care about this forum, I suppose…

Well, he obviously didn’t answer to my PM here, so he might have turned off all notifications.
Applying as contributors without his explicit consent wouldn’t work due to his activity on Memrise.

Yes, that’s right. We could try and ask Memrise to send him an email. I’ll do that and edit this post to include the link to that thread later.

Done. Here’s the link to the request:

I guess nothing happened so far? It’s really dissapointing… :frowning:
Viele Grüße
Stefan

No, nothing so far. But thanks for the heads-up. I’ve posted in the other thread again.

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Well, it seems that @Polpo_D does not want to receive any emails from Memrise, so we’re pretty much dumped - no way to become a contributor, no way to contact him/her … :frowning:

Quoted from my request-thread:

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Thank you for your “investigation”. It appears that Polpo prefers to use memrise as loner. Rejecting any help is kind of silly, but nothing we can do about. His course is still great even with the minor mistakes.

Happy Learning! :slight_smile:

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Hi, @Polpo_D,

Are you still around?

I’m working my way through your great course again but several of the recordings do not match the text and occasionally the audio is correct and the text is wrong.

Would you like me to log them for consideration?

PS are you @Olaf.Rabbachin a Contributor?

PPS - I’ve updated the title to 6000 to match the revised course name.

I’m pleased to see a lot of your great images are still present on the web, but they don’t show on the App unfortunately as they are web links and not saved images.


UPDATE

Looking at the web with Learning or Preview, I see that many of the non matched texts or recordings are in fact alternatives that do not appear when reviewing.

I think it’s a really good idea to group alternatives - but one just needs to remember all the alternatives :wink:

So there aren’t any errors but perhaps alternatives can be shown on answering or consideration to which audio is played first might be an idea.

No, I offered my help and, after nothing came back, tried to get listed as contributor, but - as you can read further up here, @Polpo_D prefers to not be contacted at all (as silly as it may seem).

FWIW, he’s continuously working on and extending the course. Many times I have had to learn single words across levels where he added them.

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