hi. a few days ago your course became super unstable & slow on all my android devices. i highly suspect this is linked to a memrise update & there is nothing you can do about it, but i thought i’d let you know. it’s fine on ios. ( i switched to ios on the 22. so the course went buggy a few days before that. should have written down the exact date, sorry. reinstalling the android app does not fix the problem )
I’m having problems on android too. It works eventually, but it takes forevvvvvvver to load up. I was wondering if I have too many items in the course and maybe I should make a new course for any future lessons (though I like having it all in one place). I guess I will wait a while and see if it gets fixed. If it is working on ios then maybe it’s not the number of items.
i am also taking this course http://www.memrise.com/course/534607/every-ttmik-lesson-levels-1-9/ which has 5360 items and works just fine on android. that’s why i think whatever the problem is, it’s not something that can be fixed on your end.
anyway, thanks for your quick response and thanks for this amazing course. instead of laddering i am doing the russian & the reverse tree simultaneously, which is a lot of fun but i wouldn’t manage it without this awesome resource.
“Do you drink green tea?” should also allow “Вы пьёте зелёный чай?” and not only “Ты пьёшь зелёный чай?”. (In fact, it is more likely the former if one doesn’t know if the other drinks a particular beverage.)
“Do you like the horses?” should match with “Тебе нравятся лошади?” in addition to “Вам нравятся лошади?” Right now the former is considered wrong.
“He thinks you (sing) know his brother” should match with “Он думает, вы знаете его брата” and not only “Он думает, ты знаешь его брата”.
“Тебе нравится рис?” should match with “Do you like rice?” in addition to “Ты любишь рис?” Right now the former is considered wrong.
“Она здесь не любит” should match with “She does not like it in here” in addition to “Ей здесь не нравится” Right now the former is considered wrong.
“Этот плащ - не ваш” should match with “This coat (cloak) is not yours” in addition to “Этот плащ - не твой” Right now the former is considered wrong.
I’ve added chapters with numbers 1-100 and ordinal numbers 1-100 + some bigger numbers and years. Feel free to ignore some if it’s repetitive! The course is still very much in progress.
@TyroneSlothrop Many of the alternate answers that you propose, I already had as alternates, so it could be something wrong with Memrise. I added (sing) or (plural) on some of them to clarify whether it’s a singular or plural verb. Please take a look at this comment: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/11754722 about liking/loving. I think that “Она здесь не любит” would not be considered correct.
Thank you for the suggestions as it’s difficult to think of every possible alternate. In the future it would be helpful if you let me know what level number the phrase is in as well.
It is булка in the vicinity of St. Petersburg but not in Moscow and other places. It is белый хлеб for me. Булка/булочка will be something sweet, a bun maybe.
i have to disagree
булочка is not Булка
Булка is white bread and not only in St. Petersburg.
white bread is much sweeter than rye bread or multigrain bread
this is булочка
this is not булочка
moscow is not the whole russia. I could give some dictionary entries too
this is булочка
erm… no it is венгерская ватрушка, or sometimes венгерка, or ватрушка if you like. Anything with cottage cheese filling on top tends to be called ватрушка. Булочка, on the other hand, is mostly something round and usually without filling.
exactly, this is батон.
I think булочка and булка is more or less interchangeable, it depends on the context (я купила булок к чаю), on the trader’s label (булка с маком sounds as common as булочка), and on the size of course
p.s. I am not a muscovite, though I currently live in Moscow. I’ve visited quite a few places in Russia and sure there are areas where they use булка in your sense but it does not seem to be the most common way. Maybe it would be better to ask at some of the big language forums, like wordreference or learnrussian, to research the issue in depth – like you said, Russia is big, Russian native speakers live in a bunch of countries, none of us can judge for everyone else.
How languages change in time. 30 year ago it was булка
come on, the next user in this thread may as well tell us that it still is булка you really cannot be sure about these things until you have at least several opinions
Some more suggested alternates (going to add to this list over time):
- Level 38: “Do you know what it means?”/“Вы знаете, что это значит?” should also accept “Ты знаешь, что это значит?”
- Level 45: “We seldom dance together”/“Мы редко танцуем вместе” should also accept “Мы редко вместе танцуем” (while the first adverb is not immediately before the verb, “вместе” which is a second adverb is, and there is another phrase which is being accepted in Lesson 45 which is “Он быстро всё запоминает” with the “быстро” separated from “запоминает” by the pronoun “всё”)
- Level 45: “He memorizes everything fast”/“Он быстро всё запоминает” should also accept “Он быстро запоминает всё” (as in the case of the “We seldom dance together” construction)
- Level 46: “Who remembers me?”/“Кто меня помнит?” should also accept “Кто помнит меня?”
- Level 23: “Whom do you see?”/“Кого вы видите?” should also accept “Кого ты видишь?”
The audio recordings for “насколько сложно это может быть” and “мнение” are swapped in Russian 5, level 5.
Some more suggested alternates and other issues (going to add to this list over time):
- Level 27: “What season do you (plural) like?”/“Какое время года вы любите?” should also accept “Какое время года вам нравится”
- Level 19: “Your music is so loud!”/“Твоя музыка такая громкая!” should also accept “Ваша музыка такая громкая!”
- Level 19: Since both a single news item is “news” and multiple news items are also “news”, “good news”/“хорошая новость” should also accept “хорошие новости”
- Level 20: “I eat chicken because I like meat”/“Я ем курицу, потому что я люблю мясо” should also accept “Я ем курицу, потому что мне нравится мясо”
- Level 23: “From where do you know him?”/“Откуда ты его знаешь?” should also accept “Откуда ты знаешь его?”
- Level 8: “Soup is in the plate”/“В тарелке суп” should also accept “Суп в тарелке” (Note that this is similar to level 21, where “The wolf is in the village” is translated as “Волк в деревне”)
- Level 8: “Buy candy, please”/“Купи конфеты, пожалуйста” should also accept “Купи, пожалуйста, конфеты” (Note that this is similar to level 11, where “Give me some rice, please” is translated as “Дайте, пожалуйста, риса”)
- Level 45: “We are recording sound”/“Мы записываем звук” should also accept “Мы звук записываем”
- Level 21: “The wolf is in the village”/“Волк в деревне” should also accept “В деревне волк” (Note that this is similar to level 8, where “Fish is in the plate” is translated as “В тарелке рыба”)
- Level 8: “Fish is in the plate”/“В тарелке рыба” should also accept “Рыба в тарелке” (Note that this is similar to level 21, where “The wolf is in the village” is translated as “Волк в деревне”)
- Level 19: “What kind of music do you like?”/“Какую музыку ты любишь?” should also accept “Какая музыка тебе нравится?”
- There is also a conflict between two card entries. In Level 35, there is “main”/“основной; главный”. In Level 38, there is “chief, main”/“главный”. While there is no problem with identical card entries, these two are not identical but overlapping, which does cause some problems.
- Level 26: “She eats everything except meat”/“Она ест всё, кроме мяса” should also accept “Она всё ест, кроме мяса”
- Level 52: “We have three points”/“У нас три очка” should also accept “У нас есть три очка”
- Level 26: “The book is for you”/“книга для тебя” should also accept “книга для вас”
- Level 27: “January and February are months”/“Январь и февраль месяцы” should also accept “Январь и февраль - это месяцы” since the original sentence in English is definitional
- Level 15: “Yes, sometimes I go there”/“Да, иногда я туда хожу” should also accept “Да, я туда иногда хожу” (which is somewhat even better since the adverb “иногда” is in its normal position before the verb “хожу”)
- Level 27: “In June, it’s constantly raining”/“В июне постоянно идут дожди” should also accept “В июне постоянно идёт дождь” (the original one is probably best still since it implies an intermittent rain or multiple separate rains, while the latter implies one continuous rain, possibly with a few breaks)
- Level 35: “I like local food”/“Я люблю местную еду” should also accept “Мне нравится местная еда”
- Level 35: “The coat should be in the closet”/“Пальто должно быть в шкафу” should also accept “Плащ должен быть в шкафу” (Lesson 12 defined “плащ” as “coat”)
- There is also a conflict between two card entries. In Level 35, there is “more”/“больше”. In Level 37, there is “more”/“больше; более”. While there is no problem with identical card entries, these two are not identical but overlapping, which does cause some problems.
I just came here Cherub, for the sole purpose of thanking You. You created splendid course and I enjoy it fully
Months ago I was at the beginning, and I was unhappy with it not being aligned to the Duolingo … from that time I found it to be much more useful, than just complementary to the Duolingo and I enjoy the bonus levels the most
Thank You very much!
Have a good time (sunny indeed)
Petr
Is anyone else watching the race at the top of the leaderboard of our course … for all times?
Pretty interesting.
I congratulate to Immary for gaining the first place from Ceporrojusticiero … and in turn I do congratulate Lawrence.Armour for gaining it from him (the same date) … and looking forward to see who will remain at the top … maybe Orlandofco?
Quite unusual and refreshing to see 4 people to be tying for the first place … all close to 6 000 000 points
Level 72 - Ordinal Numbers - three hundredth should be трёхсотый