[Course Forum] Portuguese (European) 1 to 7 by Memrise

Could you have a look at this @IgCostaBR? Just moved it so it’s easier to locate. :slight_smile:

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Hey @g-a-r-y.

Thanks for your message.

Could you please inform which course are you taking (like Portuguese 1, 2, 3…)?
I understand you refer to level/section 13 within that course.

Also, if possible, send me a concrete example of any error found, so we can properly check what may have happened and fix it.

Thanks!

Regards,

Ignacio

Thanks @MarshallLanguages!

Hi Ignacio here are some examples with my thoughts on each one

Outros virão, talvez melhores, piores: mas diferentes.

translation Others will come, maybe better, maybe worse, but definitely different.

there is no definitivamente in the portuguese phrase

a loja lhes entregou o televisor.

Yesterday that the store has delivered their TV.

there is no ontem in the portuguese phrase

onde ele não estava!

The police (re) searching the thief where it was not

there is no ‘the policice are searching for the thief’

Neste momento encontram-se em casa dos amigos.

Right now they are their friends .

Should it be right now they are at their friends house

Eles vêm de tua casa.

They come from you .

Should this be they come from your house

Nós passámos por vossa casa.

We went home.

Should this be we passed your house

Thanks for your support I feel I have made great progress in learning Portuguese thanks to memrise.

Regards

Gary Williams

Hi Ignacio,

My reply to your other email was returned saying topic closed so I will repeat the name of the course here ‘Portuguese Grammar Tapping Tests’

Outros virão, talvez melhores, piores: mas diferentes.

translation Others will come, maybe better, maybe worse, but definitely different.

there is no definitivamente in the portuguese phrase

a loja lhes entregou o televisor.

Yesterday that the store has delivered their TV.

there is no ontem in the portuguese phrase

onde ele não estava!

The police (re) searching the thief where it was not

there is no ‘the policice are searching for the thief’

Neste momento encontram-se em casa dos amigos.

Right now they are their friends .

Should it be right now they are at their friends house

Eles vêm de tua casa.

They come from you .

Should this be they come from your house

Nós passámos por vossa casa.

We went home.

Should this be we passed your house

Regards

Gary Williams

Hi @g-a-r-y

CC @MarshallLanguages
CC @IgCostaBR

Sorry to say but MarshallLanguages closed by accident the wrong thread Several errors in European portuguese tapping tests

Your course https://www.memrise.com/course/168982/portuguese-grammar-tapping-tests/ is a user-created community course by the former user EasyAcademy (later replaced by the name UnitedCommunity or something like that which is now being completely deleted).

This course can not be supported in this PT EU 1-7 thread (offical created PT EU 1-7 courses by “Memrise”) by Memrise staff.

The other thread you had created for your requested help on level 13 is definitely the right one.
As the owner is not available anymore, only a course contributor can help (if there is any, which we do not see), if any has been added to the user-created course.

If there are too many errors contained, it probably makes more sense to drop it, if a course contributor with a good command of Portuguese and English can’t fix them.

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Thanks for your prompt reply, yes I think dropping it will be my best option. Sorry to hear the official ones only go up to 7 I think they are excellent but I’ve just completed 5 - only two left.

Regards

Gary

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Hi @g-a-r-y,

Yes, in fact this is a non-official course, so the only option would be looking for help with the course creators.

@Thomas.Heiss thanks a lot for your prompt answer!

Regards,

Ignacio

I’ve noticed an issue with one task in the Learn with Locals exercise for Portuguese (Portugal) 5 level 19 Terrestrial Weather (on the Android app). The speaker in the video says “não tem possibilidades” which is not an option to tap; the accepted answer is “quando é a próxima eleição?”.

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Hi @brandtharen38.

Thanks for your message.

This is strange, but I searched for this video in “Quando é a próxima eleição” and couldn’t find it (actually, I didn’t find it in any of these three possible answers.)

Once you see this problem again, can you please check if there is a fourth option (scrolling down the screen) and send us another screenshot? (Also let us know in case the problem is already solved by then.)

When a similar issue occurs, it’s generally caused to a wrong link between the string and the video, which could be easily fixed. However, at this time I can’t find the video in the (wrong) “right answer” mentioned by you.

I’ll wait for further info, so we can look into it.

Thanks! =)

Ignacio

Hi @IgCostaBR, thank you for looking into this. I have now completed this course level and have not had this video show up since I posted earlier despite many video exercises. It must be resolved since prior to my original post I had received the video several times.

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Hi @brandtharen38.

Perfect. Thanks for letting me know.

Enjoy our courses! =)

Regards,

Ignacio

This seems to be a fairly active thread so I’m hoping someone can help.

Im trying to create a new course to help me study for one of my European Portuguese courses. I added a ton of words to two different levels but it keeps acting as if I have only put in 10 words to the level vs the 30+ that I’ve entered in twice now.

When I go in to edit the levels it shows all of the words Ive entered in. But I cant get them to actually show up in the course itself, only when I’m in edit mode.

I tried deleting the second level and just entering them all in the first level but ran into the same exact issue, only seeing all of the words in edit mode.

Im not sure if I’m doing something wrong or if there’s some kind of glitch but any tips would be much appreciated. I’ve been at it for over an hour now, it’s midnight and I’m out of ideas on how to fix this problem lol

Thanks in advance!

@IgCostaBR
Here are some mistakes that I’ve found in the European Portuguese course. Do you think you can fix these?

5 Level 15 - … mas já não vivemos: This seems like it should be combined with the previous card “costumávamos viver no estrangeiro.” I.e., it was incorrectly split up into two cards. The vivemos by itself doesn’t make sense.

5 Level 20 - ou alguém mais = or else: Shouldn’t this be translated as “or someone else?”

6 Level 3 - são as minhas calças? = are these my underwear: I’ve been told by a portuguese person that calças never means underwear in Portugal at least. Calças means “pants.” Maybe it’s supposed to be cuecas?

6 Level 3 - estas calças são minhas = these underwear are mine: See above, calças means pants.

6 level 22 - seria = I would (permanently): Shouldn’t this be “I would be” ?

6 Level 22 - iria = I would (temporarily): Shouldn’t this be estaria? I think iria means “I would go”

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Hi @andsoshelovedtheworl,

I’m sorry we missed to pick up on this report of yours.
Is this still a problem to you? In the coming weeks, Decks website will be LIVE for you to try. Could you retry the action again on Decks website when the site is ready? Your data should be synced on Decks as well.

Kana

Hi @roarkuf.

Sorry for my delayed answer.

I’ll take a look at your suggestions on the following days, ok?

Thank you and keep learning! =)

Best regards,

Ignacio

Hi @roarkuf :wave:
Hi @IgCostaBR :wave:

We looked into this over the last couple of weeks and just released the update.
We had to remove some of the items that were too random or not accurate, and we’ve updated the translations for the other ones (namely: “calças”).

Ignacio, you should be fine as well for now.

Thanks every one!

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Hi @KanaTsumoto,

I really appreciate it!
Let me know in case I can help with anything else.

Regards,

Ignacio

Hi, I just got the word “pulôver” which is translated as “jumper” but a Google image search makes me think it’s a kind of sweater, not a dress. Could this be fixed?

Does anyone besides me have a hard time with the pronunciation section? I find it basically worse than useless. Somehow google and portuguese FEL are able to parse my pronunciation (which is admittedly far from perfect), and my in person teachers don’t think it’s awful. As far as I can tell it’s biased towards mispronouncing the vowels, speaking very slowly, and not skipping any of the syllables that fluent speakers always skip or at least elide. In fact I recorded some of the native speakers used in the app, and the pronunciation section couldn’t recognize what they said.

It really feels like you are matching to the dictionary phonemes, which is probably OK for an individual word, but terrible for phrases and sentences in continental portuguese. Any ideas here? Maybe an update or switch you forgot to flip?