[Course Forum] Japanese 1-7 by Memrise

Hi @MariusHD,
Thanks for these suggestions! They should all be live if you log back in your account. ありがとう!

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Hi @will_gladulich30,

The automatically skip function would be really good indeed, that’s on our backlog but not happening just yet I’m afraid.
There were some items that were added to 0-1, maybe about 10. If you log out and log back in, any new changes to the courses should be reflected. The official count of words should appear on the course page both on web and the app, what I have here are…

  • Japanese 0: 150 words
  • Japanese 1: 348 words
  • Japanese 2: 473 words
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Thanks for this! It is now updated:)

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Thank you for flagging this! It should be updated now:)

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Hi @JenelleDeren2,
Thank you for pointing this out! You have a very good point. We’re having issues with Japanese speech recognition to give meaningful feedback and we have very capable team working on this. Meanwhile, I have done a quick fix to improve it particularly for あのー. Could you log out and log in again to have the changes reflected? Thank you!

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パーティー is 派對(party) not 排隊(line up)

EDIT:
Japanese 3 for Chinese (Traditional) speakers:

Course 3 level 35: https://www.memrise.com/course/1394708/ri-wen-3/35/

EDIT:
Japanese 3 for Chinese (Simplified) speakers:

Course 3 Level 35: Learn Japanese on Memrise - 日语_3 - Memrise

Hi,

I’d like to report a mistake in Japanese 3 (level 9). As you can see on the screenshot, 歯 is translated “dentiste”, which is wrong. 歯 is just “dent” (tooth) in French, “dentiste” is 歯医者. Could you please correct this mistake ?

Regards,

Tsuhya

Hello, I’ve found a typo in Japanese 2 (English) - stuff to do with friends
in “Let’s go cherry blossom veiwing”, “veiwing” should be “viewing”.

The learn with locals video for 好きな人 is incorrect, it shows the video for a different phrase.
Japanese 2, level 16

On level 14 you have seniour and juniour instead of senior and junior.

@MemriseSupport I have noticed that occasionally, courses will use katakana instead of hiragana, which they should be using. Example - kenki (quarrel) in lesson 1 and dame (bad) in lesson 0. These words have associated kanji and probably should not be taught to beginning learners as katakana, since that is primarily used for loanwords.

I think this is wrong

Why is the literal translation for 日曜日 in Japanese 1 given as “Day-day?” Surely the first 日 means “sun” and the literal translation is “Sunday?” @MemriseSupport

After learning Japanese from other sources I’m now quite disappointed at how Memrise doesn’t explain grammar at all, and I don’t see how beginners (I’m assuming Japanese 1 is for beginners) are supposed to learn all these phrases with no understanding of the particles. I thought Japanese 0 was great at teaching hiragana and katakana, but I remember the first time I tried Japanese 1 as an absolute beginner, I would just guess the correct meaning of the phrases by identifying the kanji or a single word in kana, but I had no idea how to structure a sentence or why particles were included, or what they meant. I guess the best thing is to learn grammar and sentence structure elsewhere and return to Memrise in order to learn new vocab when you have learned the basics elsewhere. What does everyone else think? :slight_smile:

Not quite a bug. The character は can be read as both ha and wa. For example, as a particle, it is read as wa - 私は本田とええます, and in other words, it is read as ha - はじめまして

In Japanese 1, どんなところが好きですか? is translated as “what do you like about it?” I think it should really be translated as “What kind of place do you like?” @MemriseSupport

Does anyone actually update the courses to fix errors, etc? In Japanese 1 we learn that 近い means “close by” and 近く means “near by” and I’m sure everyone is thinking, aren’t “close by” and “near by” the same thing? I think 近く is the dictionary form of near/nearby/close/close by and 近い is the adjective used to describe things that are near/nearby/close/close by. I think it’s a bit unfair in the classic review and speed review to be presented with 近い or 近く and have choices of “close by” and “near by” and then you get it “wrong” for choosing “close by” instead of “near by”. These courses really need to be fixed, there are too many silly little things like this and some that are outright errors. @MemriseSupport

Hi @Lisa_Eeyore28,

Thanks for reaching out.

If you have spotted an error on an official Memrise course, please fill in this form with the details: https://memri.se/translation-errors. This will then be reviewed by our content team, who will make any necessary changes at the earliest availability.

Best wishes,
Memrise team.

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The て form grammar is faulty in Japanese 2!
I’ve re-installed and it’s still faulty. I sent a bug report too!

@dominic.deribbc You are missing the “please” after て in your answer, that’s why it is marked as incorrect.

Thanks.
I have been following just the lamp the whole time and didn’t think about the rest anymore!