I am studying Introductory French Vocab.
When one is given a multiple choice question I have noticed red herring answers in the mix such as “incest” or “go fuck yourself”.
Ho ho ho I nearly split my sides laughing. Not.
What if someone actually is a victim of incest, do you think they want the word flashed in their face while doing an innocent language course?
Do I really want to see “go fuck yourself”?
I think whoever put these words in should just grow up and remove them - please.
Thank you.
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That sounds like a community-created courses. Apart from the community-created courses (made by fellow users) We also have official Memrise-created courses. The official courses are created by our in-house team of professional linguists and translators, complete with full audio (recorded by native speakers) and video’s of French locals.
These are our official French courses, arranged in order of ease:
French 1: http://www.memrise.com/course/1098357/
French 2: http://www.memrise.com/course/1098358/
French 3: http://www.memrise.com/course/1098359/
French 4: http://www.memrise.com/course/1098360/
French 5: http://www.memrise.com/course/1098362/
French 6: http://www.memrise.com/course/1098363/
French 7: http://www.memrise.com/course/1098364/
Courses 1 to 3 roughly equate A1 level (beginners).
A2 level (intermediate) equates to courses 4 and 5.
Courses 6 and 7 are at B1 level (upper intermediate/advanced)
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Replying to @joseph.emery.prank who posted this:
I’d reply directly there but someone closed the thread. It’s really frustrating that people do that! What is there to gain from closing a thread? It just means future replies will be disconnected. Anyway…
When words appear as alternative answers in a multiple choice, it usually means those words are in the course, you just haven’t reached them yet. If you don’t want to see those words, you should probably switch to a different course. Fortunately with a popular language like French, there are lots of courses to choose from.
Some people want to learn foreign language vocabulary including all sorts of harsh, offensive, or impolite words and phrases. For example, it’s really useful for understanding movies, or literature. Or for hanging out in the country in question and understanding what people around you on the street are saying. So I’m glad courses exist that have such things in them - and in fact I’m probably taking the very same French course you were taking when you posted that.
However, you’re not the first person to have complained, so clearly there exist some people who want “clean” French courses without any bad language. It would be useful if people made some courses like that and clearly labelled them, so that they’d be easier to find. I hope the majority of courses don’t stick to “clean” language, but having a few would be useful.
Perhaps all of the official Memrise courses do that?
I don’t know, I don’t take any of the official courses.
I’m glad you replied to this @Cos ! some pertinent points.
May I add that learning “insults” is also important if you wish to survive in the language and not just smile like a fool when people are actually putting you down and with the most vulgar expressions found in the language.
Knowing them helps ! It doesn’t mean that you have to adopt them yourself.
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I agree with you 100%. Whatever happened to democracy?
@Lien did that. This one person has the power to delete, edit, and move things at her whim. I hope that you have the chance to read this before she deletes it, as she has done with several other of my posts.
Just look at how she bundled up all of my posts in “Brazilian Portuguese”. I haven’t seen that happen in any other course.
Thank you for taking the time to respond calmly and intelligently to this. I hadn’t actually seen it in this way - of course you are right and I withdraw my complaint.
Hiya,
I closed a few (resolved and/or old) topics as part of a belated spring clean.
As a supporter of democracy and free speech, I have re-opened it and merged the two topics.
Have a lovely weekend,
Lien
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Hi @jaimebrasil, As part of a belated spring clean I closed a few old/resolved topics.
More than happy to re-open any of them tho, as I just did with this one.
I don’t tend to delete posts, comments or topics, unless they are spam. repetitive or rude.
When conversations are kept polite and sane, alterations aren’t necessary. Less work for me too, win-win 
Regarding your comments in the Portuguese forum, I did indeed merge them into one. None of your reports there were altered or deleted.