Omg it worked!! Why didn’t I think of writing that? Thanks so much!! 
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(It doesn’t work 
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If you’re going to be sarcastic I will stop replying.
Edit: oh, surprise, it does work.
@matteogiuseppe has created a parallel course for DrewSSP’s HSK 6 course that shows English and has you write Chinese. Thanks to him! 
The course can be found at http://www.memrise.com/course/1231273/hsk-level-6-native-audio-coming-soon/
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Thanks @neoncube! I’ll be breaking the course up into levels soon and am exploring options on getting audio added!
I’d prefer native audio so I’m looking for any memrise users that have a script to run on the DB.
Otherwise, I’m considering working with my teacher to record OR sigh using Forvo by hand…
If anyone has any ideas, I’d appreciate it!
@matteogiuseppe, would you mind making a course forum for that course and maybe editing the course’s description with a link to the course forum?
By the way, if you’re planning on breaking the course up into levels, it might be good to do that sooner rather than later, because if you break the course into levels, I believe it will delete the progress of anyone who has already been using the course.
Thanks for the heads up @neoncube! The course is broken up into levels now.
Edited comment:
New course URL here: http://www.memrise.com/course/1231273/hsk-level-6-with-native-audio/
Course forum here: [Course Forum] HSK 6 with native audio!
Great! Thank you
I’m not really sure where you guys stand with the creation of new HSK courses but I just thought that I’d let you know of a new tool I created.
You may be aware that, when creating a course, you can type a part of a word into a database and it Memrise will try to autocomplete it with things that are already in the Memrise database. If you choose one of its seggustions, Memrise will nicely include the mems and audio for that word if they exist. The problem is that this tends to be a very slow and tedious process because you can’t easily achieve this with Bulk Add. You need to type each word manually.
I created a Python script that does this for me. It takes any Chinese words that I give it, “pretends” to type the word to find Memrise’s suggestons, and adds the suggestion that matches exactly what it “typed”. I’m doing this to make a no-typing HSK 5 course for myself and it’s half done. Only 10 words so far are not in the database so I’ll have to type out those missing ones myself. The rest have pulled in the mems and the audio from the original HSK courses.
The bad news… it’s not a perfect script because it’s pretty hard to deploy it. In other words, I can’t just pass it off to you guys and expect it to work. Each use of it requires me to go in and customize the script for each course.
If you guys can agree and decide how testing should be done, I can populate new databases for new HSK courses and then you guys can go ahead and make the individual levels after that.
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this is a humble request for both @matteogiuseppe and @DrewSSP: please mention/give as alternative along the erhua variant also the standard ones (for ex 心眼儿 could/should have as alternative 心眼, etc)
also @DrewSSP, entry 灵魂 there is a typo (i think you wanted to write conscience and some “c” got missing)
many thanks
Ok, I made the update for 心眼儿。Unfortunately, if I search the database for 儿 nothing comes up so I’ll have to do them one by one. (Not sure why that is)
So, I’ll do my best to make the updates when I see them but please send along a list when you see them and I’ll fix. Thanks!
Edited: Okay, I did a search on the spreadsheet I have and there’s actually only a few so I made the changes listed below. Let me know if anything else pops up!
心眼儿
玩意儿
纳闷儿
大伙儿
墨水儿
纽扣儿
馅儿
Using my new tool, I decided that I would like to dedicate some of my time to creating a no-typing series of the HSK courses. I’m before I do so, I was hoping for a little bit of feedback.
I obviously intend to test on the English translations of words. I’m wondering if people think it would also be beneficial to have no-typing levels that test on the pinyin as well.