How do Memrise choose which language course will be launched? Do they choose a language randomly to be available officially or do they use a specif criteria?
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I don’t understand your question… unless you are a brand new user geting asked what language do you want to learn, you can choose whatever courses on the plate.
Memrise does push/press/almost compels the new users to take the “official” /housemade courses, but, of course, one can leave those courses any time etc
I understood the question as, “How does Memrise decide which language to add next to the list of official courses?”
For example, I am guessing (I haven’t looked it up) that Memrise does not have an official course for Quechua nor for Zulu. How would Memrise decide which of those two offer as an official course first, or whether to offer them at all?
Or imagine that work will start on creating official courses for three new languages next month. Who decides what those three languages will be, and by what criteria?
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Well the number one criteria is definitely popularity, Memrise won’t make a course for a language with very little demand. So it all comes down on what the majority of the people want. Though I don’t know how do they get their statistics on popular courses.
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I guess it also depends on whether they can get hold of anyone to work for them that is a native speaker of the language they would like to make a course for.
I think it is really good - as far as I have seen at least - that the official memrise courses are all curated by a native speaker who also writes good English.
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How do they know that, though?
I don’t think I’ve ever been asked whether I want a Quechua course or a Zulu course so I couldn’t have “voted” for those.
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Thanks for the answer.
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