I see what you mean, although since Mr Yamada is a living (animate) thing perhaps います would be better?
Sorry yes, います would be correct. ^edited.
All the images in the multimedia lessons that I clicked on, link to a broken Imageshack link. Is there any way to restore these lessons?
Unfortunately I don’t have access to the original multimedia files.
@Lien Any chance we can email Akizz see if the multimedia levels can be restored?
Matt: What’s the status on adding the sentences without spaces? I noticed while checking out this course that they seem not to have been implemented. I am writing only to offer my help as I might have some time to do that.
Hi, from what I can see the alts with no spaces have been added to all sentences up to level 20 so far. Was there anything in the lower levels that didn’t look complete?
Also I’ve just made a new course forum for the sentence course.
Hello @Lien
There are some alt answers missing that become a real annoyance since they delay the review in a multiplicative way. First, a correct answer is considered wrong and the same word end up appearing a few times in the same session. Secondly, the word becomes a “difficult” word and ends up showing up more often in subsequent sessions. A lot of review time is lost this way.
Here are just a few examples so far「correct answer」「correct alternative missing」:
「ひとつ」「一つ」
「ふたつ」「二つ」
「きって」「切って」
「あつい」「暑い」
「かんじ」「漢字」
「うしろ」「うしろ」
「いっしょに」「一緒に」
「けさ」「今朝」
「ことし」「今年」
I am sure there are more than just these. Is there a way to get these alternatives added to the Course contents?
Thanks in advance for your help with these.
Okanogan.
Hi, I’ve just added the kanji alts for all of the above. If you’re using the app, log out and back in to sync the changes.
きって (stamp), has the kanji alt 切手. (切って is the te form of 切る）
Let me know if you see any others that need adding. In the meantime I’ll have a look through and see if I spot any missing.
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Thanks Matt:
Here are the latest I found.
「かきとめ」requires 2 alts 「書き留め」「書留」the latter being already there.
「こども」「子供」
I’ll pass them along as I run into them. I am going relatively slow, I hope this format works out for you.
Okanogan
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A few more:
きれい 綺麗
おいしい 美味しい
てんぷら 天ぷら
すし 寿司
にぎやか 賑やか
わたしたち 私達
Thanks, I’ve added all of the above alts. Let me know if you see any more.
Hi, I noticed some incorrect audio. In lesson 5 (levels 14 and 60), the audio for 来月 and 去年 is こんげつ (rather than らいげつ and きょねん).
Thanks for that, I’ve corrected the audio for 来月 and 去年.
@Matt_Mendoza
A few more…
はなし 話し
はなします 話します
のどがかわきました 喉が乾きました
おなか お腹
ほんとうに 本当に
ことば 言葉
しあい 試合
むだ 無駄
たぶん 多分
There is an audio file that’s wrong: やすみ is being read as こんばん。
Thanks.
Thanks, I’ve added all the above kanji and fixed the audio. It looks like this course originally only had kanji featured in the textbook, which is mainly N5 level kanji.
You’re right! The text (みんなの日本語 I) does not have Kanji for all the vocabulary, however, the option of not typing the Kanji, i.e. using ひらがな only, remains available to those who want to stick to that. Putting in all the Kanji lifts Memrise’s course content to a different level for those who are just using it for reviewing their long lost and forgotten vocabulary but are already ahead with Kanji. It might feel like a tedious and slow process to fix every aspect of the course content but I believe it’s worth it for the long run and for other learners. This is really an example of what I meant in my posting to @lien. Moreover, a course that went through such “Ironing”/“cleaning-up” should be somehow promoted or at least “treated” differently from other unchecked contents… と思います！
Thanks.
A couple more additions:
のど 喉
かぜ 風邪
くだもの 果物
のどがかわきました 喉が乾きました
おなかがすきました お腹が空きました
Once again, thank you Matt for taking care of these fixes. I feel that I can now recommend this course for review of the MNN I vocabulary even to people who are more advanced in the Kanji learning.
Okanogan.
Thanks, I’ve added the kanji for all of these words.
One more with two alts:
「ほかに」 「他に」 「外に」
Thank you again.
Okanogan.