[Course Forum] First 5000 Words of Spanish by BenWhately

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Hi there,

For this course and the version of this broken down into introductory, intermediate and Advanced I can never get the downloads to work for them (even though I can downloaded higher item courses).

Has anyone else been able to download them?

Thanks

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Hi Joshua, Are you talking about downloading it with a phone app? This course does not behave well on phones (I am told). A few years ago Ben Whately copied and broke it down so it would behave better. But this one didnā€™t go away because so many people were already invested in it and were willing to do it on the computer instead of smaller device. I hope this helps! (Or maybe various comments above will help?)

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Iā€™ve tried to download the course with 5000 words (i.e. the full course) and itā€™s already for 20 minutes on ā€˜Gathering Informationā€™. Now, this course has tons of mems. And mems are pictures. Perhaps that slows it down. So: No, I am not able to download it.:unamused:
(On Android)

Update: after waiting for 3 (!) hours, I checked again and it says ā€˜gathering informationā€™. It didnā€™t fail either. In other situations I have seen the status changing to failed (or whatever). I didnā€™t use my phone in this time and it was just sitting at the charger.

Edit2: PS: Itā€™s said in the 5000 words course was broken up into three smaller courses, but I donā€™t see the linksā€¦ Canā€™t test them. Or do I overlook them?

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There are, effectively, three versions of ā€œFirst 5000 Words of Spanishā€

  1. ā€œFirst 5000 Words of Spanishā€ by BenWhatley
    *https://www.memrise.com/course/1288/first-5000-words-of-spanish/

  2. ā€œFirst 5000 Words of Spanishā€ by xoviat
    *https://www.memrise.com/course/737/first-5000-words-of-spanish/

  3. And this is the series of shorter courses by BenWhately that contains exactly the same content as ā€œFirst 5000 Words of Spanishā€ by xoviat:
    *https://www.memrise.com/course/169109/introductory-spanish-1/
    *https://www.memrise.com/course/169110/introductory-spanish-2-2/
    *https://www.memrise.com/course/169111/intermediate-spanish-1/
    *https://www.memrise.com/course/169112/intermediate-spanish-2-2/
    *https://www.memrise.com/course/169113/intermediate-spanish-3-2/
    *https://www.memrise.com/course/169114/advanced-spanish-1/
    *https://www.memrise.com/course/169115/advanced-spanish-2-2/

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Thank you! Iā€™ll test it when I have time.

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I have tested and tried to download this Introductory Spanish 1 on Android and it worked.

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Thatā€™s good news.

I was wondering (if you have the time) if you could test out one of my ā€œTop Upā€ short courses to check the same functionality - e.g.

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Hi there ā€¦ just wondering if anyone has found that this list is problematic or hurtful to someone focusing on South American Spanish?

Thank you!

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Hi there ā€¦ just wondering if anyone has found that this list is problematic or hurtful to someone focusing on South American Spanish?

Thank you!

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