Meet the Natives (Learn with Locals) - how to use Video Mode in Spanish (Mexico)

Official Memrise Courses Spanish (Mexico)
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you should also know that it is not available for Mexico but only for Spain, ugh

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Are you sure about that? I just did a quick check of the Memrise official Spanish (Spain) courses, and I didn’t find any multimedia levels at all. Could you point me to one?

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they are not separate multimedia levels; I saw them in the British English for Chinese speakers courses: there are very short videos of “natives” pronouncing words/ bits of sth (if this is meant by meet the natives) Simply try some level - not all items have video bits, and not all levels contain items with “meet the natives” mode

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Yes, it’s as @Hydroptere says. The video clips are not multimedia levels. You are presented with them for phrases (but not for one- or two-word items) in the learning mode. You will not see them in Preview mode, though.

You see the video and hear the speaker and have to choose from four options. You are then taken to the conventional learning screen for the same phrase, where you can choose or create a mem, if you want to. Then you progress to the next item.

I don’t use the app version much but what I get on the website (I’m currently learning Spanish (Spain)3) looks the same as the description of “Meet the Natives” from the Knowledge Base. I guess it’s the same for Memrise’s French, German, English and Italian courses, and I believe that more languages are due to be added.

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@alanh Interesting; I didn’t know that.

I tried to learn a few phrase levels, just to see, and still didn’t see them. Maybe it’s because I have “audio tests” disabled in my learning preferences.

Edit: Yes, that’s why I didn’t see them. After I turned on audio tests, I saw them.

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@xvg11,

Yes, that could be blocking you. Try level 22 or 36 of Spanish 3. There are definately videos in those.

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probably it depends on the language one learns. In the English for Chinese courses I got only individual words in the meet the natives mode, no phrases. I’ll see what is coming in the higher up courses…

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Thanks! I have de Pro version but it would be great to have the meet the native feature on the webside.

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I currently use “pro” version and cannot find how I can access the section of native speakers. Find a particular course is terribly difficult because I cannot see any filter options.

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Help, please I have Memrise Pro on my iPhone but it is not operating on my iPad version 9.3.5(13G36).
Can you help?

LulaReams91

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Hi @lula1028,

I don’t work for Memrise, but I can tag @MemriseSupport so they can be notified that you are having a problem, and they ought to resolve your issue promptly, which you certainly deserve as a paying customer. Good luck!

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Still no “meet the locals” for Spanish Mexico / Latin America

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When will this be? It’s been a year and a half since you posted and there still isn’t a Learn with Locals option for Latin America. Do you have a timeline yet on when we can expect this?

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Just wanted to confirm that this feature is still not available on Spanish (Mexico). I am paying for the Pro feature and part of the reason for that is I wanted access to “Meet the Natives”. At this point I’m not sure if the problem is user error (somehow I need to do something to access it) or simply lack of availability.

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I just finished Spanish (Mexico) 1 - there “Learn with Locals” is available. I have just started Spanish (Mexico) 2 - there “Learn with Locals” is NOT available. Do you know when it will be available; or somehow am I not getting access (I am a paying member)? Thanks in advance for the reply.

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This is still a problem and a issue not be fixed or resolved. Please let your paying costumers know that you at least aware of the problem.

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Any update on “learn with locals”? I have progressed to level 3 and can confirm there are still no videos after level 1.

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The link to “Learn with Locals (Video Mode)” is:
https://memrise.helpshift.com/a/memrise-learn-a-new-language/?p=android&l=en&s=getting-started&f=what-is-learn-with-locals-video-mode-and-which-courses-is-it-available-on

Currently, courses that have this mode are:

• English (UK)
• English (US) - Courses 1 & 4
• Spanish (Spain)
• French
• Portuguese (Portugal)
• Italian
• German
• Russian
• Japanese
• Chinese
• Korean
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish

@tlawrenc, unfortunately, I do not know when this feature will be available for Spanish (Mexico). So it’s always good to check the FAQ & Help (Memrise Support) for updates.

@angileptol (Spanish Language Specialist at Memrise), would you have any answers, please?

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EDIT (updated on Oct 3, 2021). New FAQ/link:

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Hi @Milamy,

Thanks for your question. Currently Spanish (Mexico) has videos in course 1 and course 4. We will add more in the future! Thanks for your patience.

Kind regards,

Ángela

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Hi @angileptol – it’s been about a year and a half since your last update in this. Are there still plans to add more Learn with Locals videos into Spanish (Mexico)?