I always have doubts on these types of applications, plus today I saw that the translation of soccer/football was given as el futbol ( which should be el fútbol - with the accent). This is because I knew this word before, but about the others, how can I make sure they’re correct?
No since anybody can create courses.
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No, it’s not since everybody can make a course, and people make mistakes (some have a thread on this forum where people can point out mistakes though). Also some don’t even take accents into account, so there’s that.
Best course of action in my opinion is to make your own self-study course. That way, if there’s a mistake, you can correct it.
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Memrise is made up of official and user created courses. I can’t vouch for Memrise’s official courses as I have never one those before, but user created courses can vary. I think most are pretty accurate though. If you have doubts about a specific course, you can look up translations yourself, and if they’re not accurate, avoid that creators courses. If accurate, you’re good to go.
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One of the key points with staggered memory learning is to make your own courses as that then ties together with your special interest.
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It’s a little bit like wikipedia.
One trick though, stick with courses with a lot of “active” users and audio, they are less error-prone. You can use the course leader board to check that.
I can vouch for my own courses.
The number of users in a course does not mean a thing - the search algorithm promotes the “rich get richer” philosophy. I’d look at the layout of the course, try it out for a days and, most important, check to see if the creator has posted a link on this forum for feedback and actually responds to feedback, especially if it’s a report on an error. Most creators, unfortunately, don’t attend to “their babies” once created.
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