Hi! I’m almost finished with the course. Is there a way that ‘Listening Skills’ can be implemented into the course. I also find it incredibly helpful that other Spanish courses have this feature.
Hi, I would go ahead and make your requested change but can’t because I’m just a contributor to this course, not the course creator.
It seems that only course creators can see the “Audio mode enabled” check boxes that are on course /edit/details/ pages, and tick the box to switch this feature on. And the course creator @xoviat is not active on this forum.
Hi @kevin5284, I wonder of you could arrange for “Audio mode enabled” to be switched on for this course? Thanks.
*https://www.memrise.com/course/737/first-5000-words-of-spanish/edit/details/
Edit: Kevin could you also do the same for the following Spanish course?
*https://www.memrise.com/course/193647/aqa-gcse-spanish-vocabulary-10/edit/details/
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Level 3: " el período"
There shouldn’t be an accent above the ‘i’, which the included pronunciation (and dictionary) confirm.
Hi, the accent is optional, so I’ve left the spelling unchanged.
But I’ve replaced the audio clip so that it now matches the spelling with the accent.
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Just to clarify something said at the beginning of this thread: this is a compilation of the 5000 most common words in Spanish (but not in order of most common to least common) or it actually doesn’t have the 5000 most common words or we don’t know whether it does or doesn’t?
Just want to make sure since I’m really looking for the 5000 most common.
Thanks!
This course comprises about 4600 items, or about 4500 items when peoples’ names are ignored. The items do appear to be in random order.
I’m not the course creator and don’t know the original source of the vocabulary. And after completing the course several years ago, I realized that there are many very common Spanish words that are not included.
On the plus side, the course is well maintained and contains very few errors, if any. And the audio quality is good.
An alternative 5000 word course, based on the Davies frequency dictionary (1st ed. 2006), is:
*https://decks.memrise.com/course/248520/5000-top-spanish-words-with-audio/
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El Medio - half
In noun form ‘medio’ means middle/ midst but not half. It only means half in adjective form.
La mitad would be the noun for half
Is it possible to get this amended?
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Hi, you’re right.
I changed these entries, and they’re now:
Level 2: el medio = middle (Noun), midst; means (method)
Level 4: medio = half (Adj.), halfway; average
Level 8: la mitad = half (Noun); middle; midpoint
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Hello, just getting started with this course, and I notice that a number of the definitions have things like (c…) or (o…) in brackets.
I haven’t been able to find anything that explains what these are and can’t for the life of me figure them out. I presume they are meant to be helpful in internalising the definitions?
Could someone help me out with understanding:
- What are all the possible letters that might appear in this way?
- What they refer to?
Thanks
You guys come up with such random discussions for topics -_-
Hi, the (c…) etc indicates the initial letter of an item - typically included to disambiguate items where there are more than two close synonyms.
Ok, thanks for clarifying!
level 60:
is: económicamente = financially
should be: económicamente = economically
financially is financieramente/financialmente
Hi,
The word financialmente doesn’t appear to exist in Spanish, while the word financieramente does exist but is rare compared to económicamente.
The Collins online dictionary translates financially simply as económicamente.
*https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-spanish/financially
*https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/financially
So, right now, I’m inclined to leave this item unchanged, but let me know if you feel strongly about this.
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This might be a spot where the disambiguation (e) might be helpful. I know it can be frustrating when your brain reaches for a cognate, but the cognate is a rare or non-existent word.
Thanks for flagging this up and the suggestion - I’ve changed the item to:
Level 60: económicamente = financially (e…)
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Hi Ian,
I was reviewing the vocab on here after a long break and found glacial (relating to glaciers) translated to glaciar (f) (pl) glaciares with a noun attribute but no article before it. It looks to me as if it should be an adjective but I could be wrong.
Hi George, I’ve absolutely no idea why that happened, but I’ve fixed the item and its audio - it’s now:
el glaciar = glacier Noun
(glacial is a genuine Spanish word that means glacial, frosty in English, but is relatively uncommon I think.)
Let me know if you see anything else that looks weird or doesn’t make sense.
I’m learning latin american spanish so i was wondering is it okay for me to study the vocabulary in this deck because it says that it’s spanish from spain?, and i don’t want to learn the wrong dialect for my area.
Hi Sarah,
This course was originally categorized as simply “Spanish” at a time (several years ago) when there was just one category for all Spanish courses.
Memrise automatically re-categorized the course as “Spanish (Spain)” a few years ago when they started using the two current Spanish categories.
I’m not the course creator, but I think the course contains vocabulary that should work well in any Spanish speaking country. There’s no slang or region specific vocabulary, as far as I can tell.
The computer-generated audio clips in this course were mostly created with a Latin American accent.