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.
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
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)
@ 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.
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
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.
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
In Spanish 4.
Again I have no way to guess the answer and no way to turn off this audio mode (no speaker icon).
Hello Guys
I have a question about the female voice used in the course, do you know what specific accent it is (I mean which part of Spain) I am curious because her pronunciation of “s” is much softer than typical castellano, at least what you can hear in Spanish media.
Thanks
Course: Spanish 5
Phrase: Socialista
Problem: I typed the word with an article because a lot of (almost every) nouns are with articles in those courses. System marked it wrong
Why was that incorrect?
Hi @atikker,
The problem is that we are teaching an adjective here “socialist”. Although it can also be a noun “a socialist”, here it works as an adjective and does not need an article.
Best,
Ángela
I had no idea it was meant to be an adjective… (or I had fogotten it… was just reviewing)
Could you please add some “adj” or smth to it?
I renew my question, anybody?
