Hi
I’m having a little problem: I’m trying to lern latin grammar with Memrise and I’m actually quite happy about it, but as grammar is quite complex, it happens to have same answers for different questions.
For Example: Let’s assume that latin “a” means english “b” and latin “c” also means english “b”. When Memrise asks for the correct Answer vor english “b” it only accepts “a” or “c”, but you can’t know which one is right. Sometimes “a” will be accepted, and sometimes you have to type/click “c”. I don’t know if this is a bug, but anyhow it’s quite annoying. And it happens on the Web and on the iOS interface.
Yeah, I’m a contributor.
But unfortunately the alternative answers solution doesn’t work. I can then type in “a” or “c” and both is correct, but when there are given answers in the fields where you just have to click, it still says that my answer was wrong.
The semicolon thing would work, but it’s not really what I want.
I guess that there is no solution yet, what is why I wrote this in the bug section, hoping that some Memrise people see this post.
For typing tasks it should be self evident, that both answers have to be correct (without defining alternative answers) and for the tasks with given answers either both answers should be correct or maybe even better: only one of the correct words should be shown on screen.
I’ve been having the same kind of problems trying to learn some French.
meilleur: better
mieux: better
Please type in what better is.
Oh, I think, that’s easy! It’s mieux!
Wrong! It’s meilluer!
Okay…
Please type in what better is.
meilleur?
wrong! It’s meiux! repeat 100 times quit session from annoyance
As you can see, the only way how to do it is to just randomly guess and hope. And if you’re doing that, you’re not learning are you? This and many other examples are starting to drive me round the bend. The only solutions I can see is to either put them in different levels, or to learn and review words one by one.
@N3th3raid3r, no, it sounds like your point is valid. As mizinamo mentioned, the course maintainer could add “(adv.)” and “(adj.)” after the two different versions to distinguish them.
Your complaint is still perfectly justified. If a quiz-type application is giving you a certain prompt and there’s no possible way of guessing which answer it’s expecting then the application is flawed.
Either it should prevent such courses from being created in the first place (too late for that), or accept either answer.
The annoying thing is that it does accept either answer, providing the course is non-strict and the alternative answer contains diacritics (accents/umlauts etc.) and you type it without those diacritics. Which is very strange behaviour, and hard to imagine how a programmer came up with that…
(this coming from a programmer who did not figure out how to make an audio-only course??) here we go again… ranting …(
@N3th3raid3r
if you mean the course mentioned in this thread (Errors in AQA GCSE French Vocabulary), the creator apparently left memrise. Pick another course, or, given that by now you know the difference between mieux and meilleur, ignore both items. There are hundreds of French courses with active creators on memrise… mistakes in courses are not software bugs, you should report them in the respctive forum/language category
Except I never wanted to make an audio only course, rather override the learning mode to only use audio prompts with typing answers. I suspect cooljingles’ script can do it but it wasn’t immediately obvious how.
I just checked, and it appears that there isn’t a course forum for that course, nor does the course creator appear to be registered on these forums. If you’d like, though, you could become a course contributor to the course and fix these issues yourself. You’d need to be careful, though, as it appears that there are quite a few people who have are using or have used that course.
Would you be interested in being added as a contributor?
Thanks to both @neoncube and @Hydroptere on this. In answer/reply to both of your comments, I would love to become a contributor or pick another course, but I’m just a student who was told to do this course by my teacher. I’ve brought this up with my teacher and whether they’ll do anything about it is up to them. I simply don’t have the time to contribute or in truth, care that much. But thank you both very much for your help and support on this.
On the website, that course gives me cues that look like this:
The cue tells me that I need to enter an adverb. The course creator has the words identified as adverbs or adjectives. It’s there. It’s already built in, and it shows when using the website. It’s not a mistake in the course.
I sugges you wite in brackets, what you want, i.e. “better (adverb)” and “better (adjective)”
I have a similar problem with some adjectives/adverbs in Romanian: “rapid” = rapid, fast, quick (adjective), while “repede” = rapid, fast, quick (adverb)
Previously I used the possibility of writing which “class of word” (I believe it was called) and the information whether the answer wanted was an adjective or an adverb, singular og plural, formal or informal etc. would appear in a small box together with the “question”.
I now realize that this possibility no longer exist. @Memrise: WHY HAS IT BEEN REMOVED? PLEASE BRING IT BACK!
This is not something that happens automatically from the side om Memrise. The small boxes come up because course-creators have made them
The possibility of creating these small “clue-boxes” when no longer exists! For old courses, they still come up in the “questions”, but yesterday I realized, that I can’t even create them, when I add new words to an exixting course.
?) here we go again… ranting …(
