Honorifics too informal? (and some other suggestions)

Hi everyone

I’ve been enjoying memrise and using it to refresh my Japanese. I’ve done some courses in real life, but it’s been about ten years ago. I’ve noticed some things that didn’t feel quite right:

  1. In the first level you learn next words:
    “Ikou!”, “Oyasumi” and “Choushi wa dou?”

If i’m not mistaken these are rather informal ways of saying “Let’s go!”, “Goodnight” and “How are you?”

Wouldn’t it be better to teach the more formal “Ikimashou!”, “Oyasuminasai” and “Anata no choushi wa dou desu ka?”

  1. The hiragana for te (て) is written as “tse”. I’ve never seen it this way before. Also the hiragana を is written as “o”. I know this isn’t wrong, but there was a question in which I had two times option “o”. One of the “o”'s was probably connected to お. Maybe it would be better to write the を as “w(o)”?

Anybody else had these “issues?”

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