[Course Forum] Spanish 1 to 7 by Memrise

Hello @lurajane

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Tráeme is the imperative form, so like “bring me”, so you cannot put an imperative in a question, it is only used to express an order or a command. Also, if you were to say “tráeme la cuenta, por favor” (without the question marks) it would still sound quite rude, since you are ordering the waiter about. Does it make sense?

Thanks,

Ángela

Hi @Atikker,

Thanks for the post, I guess there is no difference really. I will add it as an alternative. :slight_smile:

Best,

Ángela

Has something changed with typing questions? I haven’t seen a single one come up for a “full sentence” for a couple days, neither in reviewing nor in lessons. They still appear for single words, but they used to be very common for complete sentences too. I have always had “Tapping tests (jumbled words)” set to “no”.

edit2: this is confirmed by many reports on the web forum. I’ve been able to get around this bug/“feature” by installing CoolJingle’s script with the fix added by Ziutek here. To restore previous behaviour for learning I also had to set INCLUDE_LEARNING to false.

Similar things has happened 3 times today while I was reviewing Spanish 2. Once I didn’t read through all the hints and picked the wrong right one

hi @autismal,

Please check this Release Note:

Best,

Ángela

11 posts were split to a new topic: Trust levels and editing course forums first post

In Spanish 6, Level 26:
“cómo es …” is translated as “he is like … ; he looks like …”,
wouldn’t that be “es cómo …”? And wouldn’t “cómo es” rather be “what is it like”?

@angileptol Thanks for the clarification! It would make the official courses useless, but thankfully changing that through userscripts is still supported.

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Hello @autismal,

Thank you very much for your question. You are right! That is a mistake and I have corrected it. It should now say: “¿Cómo es?” = what is it like?; what does it look like?

Thanks for helping us improve our courses!

Best,

Ángela

Strange thing are happening in Spanish 2

Hi @Atikker - strange indeed - and things appear to be getting stranger.

It looks like someone (not me) has deleted the recent posts that I wrote in response to @angileptol’s Starship Memterprise Release Note (that was posted to this thread yesterday).

I don’t know what to make of this, but I do fully expect this post to be deleted also.

@angileptol Thanks,
It seems the audio has been removed from “¿Cómo es?” (if it did have audio before)

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@ ian_mn - posts not deleted, just given their own thread:

I suggested the move, because your comments deserve to be heard and addressed, and not just in the Spanish 1-7 context.

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Hi @ian_mn,

I am sorry to see that is what you think, rest assured we will not delete this post as we did not with the previous one.

Best,

Ángela

Yes @autismal,

We will upload audio shortly.

Best,

Ángela

Hi @angileptol, thanks for letting me know.

When I saw that some of my recent posts to this thread had suddenly disappeared, I assumed that someone didn’t agree with what I was saying and had just deleted them.

Generally, I think that the old forums that were replaced about six months ago actually worked much better and were probably a more cost-effective option for Memrise. And the traffic on the current forums seems to be extremely low - only 47 of the ~600 thousand subscribers to the Spanish 1 to 7 courses have posted to this this thread in the past six months, for example.

So, perhaps it might be time for the Memrise management to consider abandoning these forums and switching back to using the older, more effective ones. Just an idea.

In Spanish 7, Level 1, for "¿has sabido algo de ella desde ayer? ",
there are two audio versions (same woman’s voice) that may be given for that sentence: one speaks the line as it is written, the other says “sabes algo” instead. This could be confusing.

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Thank you @autismal for reporting this mistake. I have deleted the wrong audio already. Thanks a lot for helping us make our courses better!

Best,

Ángela

what is this topic about

Hello @Ralphytube_HD,

This forum is for the official Spanish (Spain) courses created by Memrise. Users here post any question they might have and they also report any errors they spot.

Best,

Ángela

thx angileptol

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