Hi, I’ve watched quite a few of Kaufman’s videos and find them interesting. I might well try the LinQ product at some point - thanks for the suggestion.
Why can’t I use both in the same time.I use memrise for vocabulary,a note book for grammar and social media to not forget what I learn.Ignoring grammar make no sens to me.My mother learned Tunisian dialect just by hearing it everyday and guess what her problem now is grammar.
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Sure - my suggestion would be to use a combination of activities that works best for you - maybe try six activities, then pare them back to yield the most effective three or four. In general, after giving them a fair try, quickly ditch any methods that don’t work for you, I think.
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I teach languages, so I kind of noticed the grammar as I went along, I didn’t ignore it, I just picked it up without needing to study it separately. But I have a language-learning brain; I notice grammar patterns quickly. Not everybody does - like your mum - and they need different tuition and different methods than someone like me with my background in learning and teaching languages.
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I’m a big fan of re-usable patterns where the learned words could be used to form simple expressions, such as “I need zzzz”, “do you have zzz”, “I did zzz (at some time)”. Those pattern forming exercises are mostly missing in Memrise with the exception of adding a basic sentence and from that you learn the use. Grammar is fine but it should be used to annotate the usage, not to learn it first hand. Unless you want people kick and scream and run out from the lecture hall.
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Hi @Lodrogyaltsen3 - I think you’ve got a good point.
I’ve found that the best way to make these simple expressions automatic is by using Pimsleur all-audio courses - that use a form of spaced-repetition system. For some major languages (e.g. French, German, Lat Am Spanish, Chinese) there are 75 hours of audio material available. The courses are rather expensive to buy but may be available through public libraries.
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They are also available on Audible, so you get them much cheaper that way if you buy a €10/per month Audible subscription.
I haven’t tried any of them yet, but I was hoping that my husband (whose dad lives in Thailand) was going to use Audible to learn Thai via Pimsleur courses.
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Thanks, I checked out the Pimsleur courses – good concept! I’m tempted to write a mobile test app using this concept.
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Sorry you said " can import decks for Anki,Supermemo and Quizlet easly and I don’t even need to pay for offline." I thought that meant you understand how they work or use them. Anyone else have simple instructions on how to import to Anki or Quizlet or both?
No Memorion import decks from those apps without opening neither.
Hello!
I really hope that courses like https://www.memrise.com/course/1135815/frantsuzskii-2/ and another levels (1,2,3 …) will moves to decks. Because for now they didn’t migrate yet 
Thank you so much for this! I’m so happy 
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I love Pimsleur.
Used Pimsleur cassette sets are a good value on EBay.
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After much deliberation I have just cancelled my memrise pro subscription. I have been a member since 2014 and a pro member for almost as long. Memrise helped me get through advanced language studies at university, thanks in no small part to the community created courses and I am sad to see these be cast to one side - that is to say to be removed from the app and made accessible only via the internet. Having tried a handful of Memrise’s own courses in a number of the languages I am studying, I find them woefully lacking both in content and imagination, particularly at the ‘advanced’ levels.
Like many other users on here I use memrise almost exclusively at times when I have no internet connection - for example on public transport. To continue to do this I would now have to use my phone data, and this is not an economically viable option for me.
To the creators of memrise I cordially urge you to rethink your decision. Memrise holds a niche place in the language learning market purely because of the quality of its community created courses and I respectfully question your decision to become, if you forgive the term, a carbon copy of duolingo. For years now I have been touting the virtues of Memrise as a language learning resource and I sincerely hope to see it rise to that level once again. But for now I’m going to have to invest my time creating cue cards elsewhere 
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Have you not read that the community courses will be available on the new Decks app? And that it will also be possible to download the courses and do them offline, so long as you have a subscription, which you would have been entitled to, I believe.
The announcement appeared under “Decks Announcements”, I am afraid, when it would have made sense to put it here as well.
http://community.memrise.com/t/update-decks-mobile-app/35504/163
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I think Mnemosyne is excellent. I haven’t used it for a while because it was a nuisance creating sound for my courses. I’ve an easy way of doing the latter now so I will probably return to it. I already have a spreadsheet macro to create the upload file.
The interface is very minimal but there is so much ‘under the hood’. The creator is very responsive. Well worth a look.
Oh, and it’s free.
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Well i know barely anyone will read it, and no one will care, but i don’t care.
Memrise is turning into Duolingo 
Duolingo is already split into 2 websites: official courses and decks.
So you, memrise, decided to competite with Duolingo… I wish you good luck
And i completely understand why you are doing what you are doing. Your official courses are on low level (A1, A2, best maybe on B1) but high quality. User-made courses aren’t well-made. For example i was learning a good course with more than 500 words. At 463 words it all screwed up and now it isnt working, so separating may help you cover those bad courses.
But splitting into decks isn’t comfortable for users…
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I can assure you that many people will read your posting here. I did. Not sure why you would want to indicate that you don’t care while, nevertheless, you took the time to write.
To me as someone who is working on resp. contributing to several courses this generalized statement is a true slap in the face. While I do agree that there is many courses with low quality content I can assure you that there’s more courses with an extremely high level of quality. Course creators and contributors (among them teachers and professional linguists) spend countless hours on such courses, over long periods of time. They do not make any money from it or Memrise (hence the term “community”), at least not directly (some teachers provide courses for their students, these are often public so others can use them as well).
To generalize matters in the way you did is pretty disrespectful and of no help - instead I’d urge you to search the forum for a thread pertaining to the course you are having issues with, identify the issues and ask someone there to fix them. Search for “[course forum] name” where “name” is the name of the course you’re having issues with. If there is no such thread you could search here for the original creator (you can address people by typing “@” plus their username in a posting here, if it exists). If the course creator has no user account, you can ask Memrise to help out (@ plus, i.e., MemriseSupport).
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i know there are good courses but i tend to mostly find those bad ones i didnt wanna slap you in the face sorry. Yes i generalise. I dont wanna hurt you by that. Of course i respect those good teachers but there are also many bad teachers.
aww, someone replied to my post O.O nice
Well, maybe good teachers should stay on the official site 
And the bad go to the decks. this is my personal opinion.
Oh, wait i am a bad teacher… Please don’t look at my course. It should die slowly…
official courses are on “high level” because thousands of users cared about posting mistakes and suggestions for improvement. And as I am taking some memrise courses, I can tell that the Norwegian ones are full of mistakes, the new Spanish also has a lot of inconsistencies, as well the new Japanese. Less mistake prone seems only the new Mandarin
i got fed up very fast with the Portuguese, Italian and the rest of the “official” ones. I got too bored with…
that course, your own, you can delete it any time.
still questions? (i have been on memrise since 2013, do not ask about that duolingo stuff, i never used that)
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