The Core 1000 Japanese course is great, but there are several instances in Parts 1-3 (each has 100 words) where I have spotted spelling errors which could lead new students to incorrectly spell and pronounce the word in Japanese. Most, though not all, of the instances in Hiragana involve diphthongs. The words are spelled correctly when you are learning them, but when you are asked to type them you must type the answer incorrectly before it will be accepted. Here are some specifics: motto must be typed motsuto. chotto must be typed chiyotsuto, kanojou must be typed kanojiyou, densha must be typed denshiya, shuu must be typed shiyuu, tsuzuku must be typed tsutsuku, shaberu must be typed shiyaberu, issho must be typed isshiyo, futoi must be typed hutoi, geemu must be typed gemu, teeburu must be typed teburu, kocchi must be typed kotsuchi. An outlier: magaru reads maguru. Loving the review and learning new words with this. Memrise makes learning easy and fun, so thank you!
who is the creator of that course?
can you paste a link to that course?
motsuto is annoying, but correct: the tsu-part stands for the ‘small tsu’, because motsuto is written mo + small tsu + to
as said: annoying but correct
The course expects these words to be typed using hiragana, not romaji.
And typing もって doesn’t work? Is that what you mean?
@IchigoSmof The course is working correctly and has no misspellings. The originator of this thread should install an IME or keyboard so she can type her answers as actually taught in the course, instead of saying that the course has misspellings because it isn’t accepting phonetic English answers.
@Nancy_Wood7f Here is a thread with suggestions for what you need: Japanese 1 Course asking me to type in Japanese
@Atikker Sometimes it is helpful to post the course name and creator, but in this sort of situation, it is my view that that (1) distracts from the actual issue (2) impugns a well-written, error-free course, and (3) the course is easily found from the opening post, No, the course doesn’t have frequent spelling mistakes.
what’s IME?
I must not have the right keyboard because I can only type in romaji, not
hiragana.
Japanese IME is what you use to type in Japanese using your own keyboard. More info here:
^Should point out that this is for Windows. If you’re using something else, I would like to know.
Happy learning!
Thank you for your help. I have a Mac, but there is a link to an IME for
Mac on google I will try.
Using a Mac is even easier!!!
You don’t need to install anything. Just click on the Apple at the top left of the screen, and then click on System Preferences. Then “Keyboard”, and next “Input Sources”. Then you can add Japanese and Romaji.
It’s hard to explain, but after you do that, there will be a US flag on your menu bar at the top of the screen. You click on that and select Hiragana. Then you hit the keyboard letters for mottu, and it types もっつ。When you’re done, you set it back to English.
I never thought there were… I just wanted an easy way to acces that course… it is so good that you knew what course she was talking about. There are wide variety of courses in memrise and I can’t tell by forum pst heading what is inside a specific one
linking a course is never a distractor if the question is about that course
Thank you! That was so easy. The romaji keyboard did the trick!