I created a new course and am currently filling in the levels with lists of words: Items, definitions, pronunciations and parts of speech. Unfortunately, Memrise overwrites some of my entries when it finds similar words in pre-existing courses. This requires me to carefully check each and every word and manually add attributes that Memrise either thus failed to import or, worse, replaced with something else. As I eventually learned, Memrise even adds alternatives both for items as well as for definitions, forcing me to manually click through both of each word I enter, just to check for such unwanted “help”.
Please, include an option to turn off this behaviour, as it creates lots of unnecessary work.
Second, I tried this suggestion, created a test course with a language pair from the selection and created a new course. I entered two lessons with that pre-existing database.
Only then was I given the option to create a new database, which I did, only to note that:
a) The already created lessons are not transferred into the new database. So, they would have to be re-entered one by one.
b) With a new database, the feature “Create levels” seems to only allow a levels with a fixed number of entries. I does however not even work, so I cannot add any levels.
c) When I deleted the lessons with the old database, the new database and its world list disappeared, only to re-appear when when I created at least two levels with the old database.
As I described above, I in fact did try and created a new database. When I create that new database, its contents aren’t accessible for learning. The system behaves unpredictable in this regard and if it designed that way, I would ask the Memrise team to please include an option to not have the value I enter overwritten.
