I think adding “to” to verb forms, and “a/an” to nouns is a good idea to make it clear to the learner what part of speech the word belongs to, but maybe you could put them in parentheses, ie (to) talk, (a) book, etc., to make them optional for the learner to enter. If you do that, they will still get the benefit of having the part of speech made clear, but they don’t have to type to/a/an a thousand times.
The only drawback to doing that would be that auto-accept on the web doesn’t work for items that have parentheses, and having it work for some items and not for others would make the experience less consistent.
Yep, I was thinking about parentheses as well, but opted out because, on Memrise, you usually (can) expect the “auto-accept” kicking in which doesn’t work if there’s “optional” parts in the words/phrases being tested.
Hello! I think adding articles before the word will help a lot but there is an inconsistency with the audios. For example, you have the entry ‘a gig’ but when the audio is played it says ‘gig’, so when you write it, it is considered wrong because you missed the article that was never mention in the audio. I don’t know if it’s something easy to solve (I know you are already busy changing everything) but it’s a bit of a headache.
Thanks for all the work you are doing!
Bye
Yes, this is somewhat inconsistent. The thing is that I would have to find and/or re-record all audio files. I do think that if you keep in mind that all verbs are to be prefixed with "to " and all nouns with "a(n) " it will always work. I’ve seen and am working on other courses where they have the exact same behaviour and I got used to doing this very quickly, simply because you’ll always know what you have to do/answer.
Some questions contradict grammatically with the right answer (for example, the question refers to a verb while the answer is a noun. It disorientates. (I dropped the screenshot because there is a limitation here)
When selecting an answer in quick test using the keyboard, the focus relocates on another answer at the time of pressing “Enter.” It irritates ((
Best Regards, Yuri
The problem with these duplicates (I’ve seen them only in community created courses) is very likely caused by phantom entries. That said, only the course creators can remove such problems.
Edit: the text below has originally been posted on a different thread and has then been moved here. Left for context. Many courses have their own thread here on the forum. You find these by searching for"[course forum] name", for yours I could find this thread. I suggest you re-post there to let the course creators/contributors know about the problems so that they can fix them.
P.S.: Note that the linke course’s name is actually “Advanced English Vocabulary”, so it might actually not be your course if you typed the complete name.
Edit: the text below has originally been posted on a different thread and has then been moved here. Left for context. [quote=“yshindin, post:3, topic:36995”]
Actually, the course is “Advanced English (C1, C2)”.
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Well, the good news is that there is a thread for this course as well. Go here. I’m working on that course as well, so I’ll stroll along.
No, you were perfectly right - there was two entries for “a booby trap”. I’ve merged the two now - thanks for letting me know.
Edit: the text below has originally been posted on a different thread and has then been moved here. Left for context. One thing: should you encounter anything else or just want to discuss the course’s contents, please post in the course thread!
I don’t have sufficient privileges to move your and my posting, @alanh or @amanda-norrsken - could you be so kind to move these for me?
