So how well am I meant to understand what’s in Tae Kim? I’m getting on to the essential section now and starting to have a bit of trouble breaking down sentences and fully understanding them. Is just sort of getting a rough understanding understanding enough to keep moving forward, or should I really be understanding it totally so that I get more advanced stuff later?
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Keep moving forward. Let the SRS test your retention of what you learn, as you learn more and more new things. Remember though to do all reviews first, then use remaining study time to learn more.
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Bummer about more advanced courses being more mundane/tedious to create within Memrise. Are they open to suggestion? I’d really love to keep using Memrise and paying them for the perceived value but when I get to the advanced level, I may stop paying.
hey, I was looking at one of your Zettai Kareshi courses today, and I noticed there were no more English translations. Did you remove all of them when you quit memrise?
Damn, this is a bummer if you did. Was hoping go through those four courses. 
The English translations are there, but Memrise did an update so that “audio cards” don’t show the extra information. I don’t know their reasoning, but it’s not good and really hurts that course. It was a big reason I finally stopped using Memrise.
You could post a “bug report” and mention that problem. They might change it back if they realize people need that extra info even on “audio” cards.
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Ah, I hadn’t heard about that. I’ll try to contact them on this forum (…) and see if I get any response (…). Thanks for the clarification. Good for you taking the steps to leave this site. I fear waking up and having all my progress be gone after some update. I should really get onto moving platforms.
Actually, maybe a script writer could fix this…
Hello,
I was wondering how the Intermediate courses are going since I am very interested in them 
I don’t know if I understood correctly but, are those only available for your patreon supporters?
Thank you very much in advance (and in general fo taking the time and effort to provide such high quality resources for Japanese learners).
It’ll be quite a while before I get around to making intermediate level Anki decks. However, they’re not too hard to make without all the small improvements I’ll be doing. For example, here’s an Anki deck someone made from the spreadsheet and audio I linked to above: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XdgXTaMbOBm3iPcVbwgv0TtQoBzMV-Ur
Something similar could be done with the kanji courses. What I’ll be doing is hosting the material which can be useful should I make improvements.
Hi Nukemarine!
I see you’re not as involved on memrise anymore but your vocabulary courses are my favorite I’ve found thus far.
Going into SGJL 07 - Core 2k/6k though, I’m realizing a lot of the audio files are either broken or missing. I’m not sure if I’m the only one having this issue. I haven’t checked it on a browser yet, only in app.
EDIT: j/k I think its just my WiFi connection being real gosh darned shoddy.
Ok, glad that was resolved. I did not look forward to having to get someone to reload all that audio.
Hey Nuke, hope all’s well.
I have a minor error in the Shinkanzen course.
The 16th word’s voice says a sentence that includes じゅうさつ instead of じゅっさつ.
Edit: Also the voice is wrong for the 19th.
Edit 2: Also 着させる is mispronounced as ちゃくさせる, and こさせる as きさせる here:
Edit 3: Okay, I think I’m dragging this on more than I should, but here we go. 帰らされる is mispronounced as きらされる, and 来させられ as きたさせられ, and 作らされ as さくらされ.
First, you may notice I’m calling this “Let’s Learn Japanese” which is more appropriate to what I want to accomplish: everyone to learn Japanese together. It’ll be abbreviated LLJ for course listings.
Now a sincere apology to existing users of the course. I am altering the Tae Kim Grammar courses to be prompt with Japanese expression, answer with English. However, this means that progress will not carry over due to Memrise’s limitations.
This change is necessary as I have been pushing recently for Comprehension based learning meaning students learn a “see Japanese, understand Japanese”. The previous layout was showing an English sentence and essentially forcing students to translate which is more difficult and prone to false negatives.
This is not a small impact given the hundreds actively using the course. However, I think the overall benefit will be a net positive in time.
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I was just about to start the “Tae Kim Grammar” course, once you’ve completed the alterations will you post here to let everyone know?
I look forward to the changes to the course. 
Changes were done yesterday.
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If you’re using mobile, you may have to suspend those cards. It’s an issue with Memrise creating “reverse cards” even when the course creators don’t want that to happen.
Thanks…
Where do I start? These courses have both inspired me and amazed me. I want to thank you on all of your work Nukemarine! These courses have given countless people joy and are continuing to! So I’m gonna say what we are ALL thinking. Thanks! We appreciate your work and I myself will never stop using these courses. So just keep up the good work! And never give up inspiring us with your SGJL (former) courses!
So yet again, Thanks!
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