@Fhireman thank you for the suggestions. Glad to see you’re enjoying learning with Memrise.
We’re looking into a fix for the issue you’re having with your first Japanese course, and it will hopefully be out soon. Have you encountered this problem on any other courses. Some links to the courses would be very useful in helping us accurately pinpoint the issue.
Thank you
Happy learning
Japanese 3:
43.Finding your kit:
20.How many chairs are there in the living room?
“いまにいいすはなんきやくありますか？”. Something seems wrong in this. Could someone help me out with it, pls? Also, could you explain why is it so, if it’s correct?
I’m also seeing issues with spaces being required around tilde’s in answers when typing in hiragana, which is incredibly hard to do inline (at least on a Mac in hiragana mode hitting the spacebar substitutes kanji in auto-magically, and can’t be disabled) and wastes a lot of time to go back to and fix when done typing.
examples:
Japanese 1 Level 14
わたしのでんわばんごうは 〜 です
Japanese 1 Level 11
わたしは 〜 すきではありません
I also have to repeat the previously raised concern about the time given for multiple choice reading questions, I usually wind up having to strategically find keywords, not read the answers because of time constraints. And I’m not THAT slow at reading hiragana.
I can’t figure out the answer to “my name is…”
I type Watashino namae wa/ha ~desu/desu/…desu.
None of that works.
In the Japanese 1 course, in the level 6 “test run your hiragana”. However, many of the questions display the answer directly under the question before you’ve been given a chance to answer, which seems to miss the purpose a bit.
Indicated with a red arrow here.
What I’d like to see is that this word pointed by arrow would be written in roman letters. At least in first levels. But yeah, this way it seems quite pointless
Hi Prady_023,
Thank you for pointing that out. That was a typo, with extra い before the word いす. It is now fixed.
Thanks!
Hi SarahJoyMcKenzie1,
This has been fixed. Thank you for pointing it out!
Hi Fhireman,
Thank you very much for the comment, and please accept my apologies for the late reply. There was indeed a whole ‘swap’ situation between English localized items (I speak English… I’m from England… etc) and Dutch localized items. I’m fixing them right now.
I’m glad to hear that you enjoy learning Kanji, as many people find them difficult! At the moment we do not offer audio for the Kanji levels, because we are only showing what they mean as opposed to how they are read. This is to make things as simple and straightforward for the new users, as you may know, that one Kanji can be read in many different ways depending on other Kanji it is presented with. ‘Swipe & Learn Kanji mode’ sounds like an awesome awesome idea, because not only does it sound fun but it also teaches the order of stroke, which is essential when writing Kanji correctly and beautifully. At the moment I’m mainly focused on fixing the existing issues, however when this process is finished, it will be an idea to consider.
Have a lovely day!
i found a mistake, im taking level 2, and when i do te review, it ask “i am from england” and “i speak english”, but it cahnge the answer for holland
Japanese 1.
I started this course too, and I was a bit confused.
And one more thing: sign for sound “i” was not introduced, but I was prompted to “write” word ‘yes’ (hai).
Just went through Lesson 6 in Japanese 2 and found several errors. Stupidly enough I did not write them down, but the most frustrating one was having to type “orandago” when the correct word should be “eigo” in one of the phrases. There where other words where the little box below the title phrase didn’t match etc. Overall very frustrating, just wanted to heads up. Thanks!
This is from Japanese 2 Lesson 6, but I was redirected here, for whatever reason, but there are a number of issues here.
I noticed that there was another topic about this that was closed. I don’t have the time to go through and figure out what happened there, but I wanted to add my voice to the others who have pointed out that there are some notable mistranslations and errors in Lesson 5, in particular, but also elsewhere. In lesson 6 of Japanese 2, it keeps translating 英語 as おらんどご or something like that(is that even a word? I’ve never heard of it!), in hiragana, when the correct translation should be えいご. Other errors include translating “I am from Japan” and “Are you from Japan?” with Japan swapped with England or English person(イギリス or イギリス人) for some reason. I will update more later, when I have time, but it would be great if these could be fixed. Here’s one screenshot that shows what I’m talking about.
JAPANESE 1. I have a question about this word
Some more mistranslations to report:
The top translation in hiragana is accurate, the bottom translation, and the one that it goes on to request in questions, is NOT right.
The small よ (yo) indicates that the ち (chi) is modified, so ちょ is read “cho”. The は (ha) is being used as a particle, and is read as “wa”.
