Memrise new vs old courses?

Soooo just noticed memrise has newer courses with slightly different content for German, Japanese and Chinese. :expressionless: Why. The changes don’t seem that significantly different content wise. Kinda downgrades the effort from the last 5 months. Any noticeable advantages for old vs new guys?

Are you sure there are new courses for German? It doesn’t show to me. Only the old UK and US courses
 strange
 What is the id number of those new courses? is there a new German course for UK, US or both?

These are the only one showing themselves to me

Ah so they’re supposed to be UK vs US? Seems like an odd thing to distinguish between. It’s not very noticeable at first, just a few content changes here and there. For example, an extra word was geht ab in the Uk version German1.1 I think, or different word placements like wenige in German2.1 instead of elsewhere in the other version. There are also major differences in word and placement in German 7. If it is just two versions of the same thing, it’s kinda distracting tbh

some words in UK and US are totally different
 there was a big fuss about underwear = pants. In US pants = trousers
 other words also, that’s why they made the US versions for every course. You can search this forum for those posts if you want (There definitely is smth in the beginning of German 1-7 official thread) and MarikoMiz explained in Japanese why they made the new courses for Japanese 1-7

U.S voice sounds way better. Though there are less words and sentences in the US courses for some reason. Spelling is better too. Take out the u’s that don’t make a sound, replace the ‘s’ with ‘z’ because it sounds like a ‘z’.

Though, I do think time would be better spent on making 8,9,10,11,12,13 and 14 courses. :stuck_out_tongue:

The whole US UK thing is confusing af :sweat: At least it doesn’t seem like its gonna take anything away from the learning experience.

set your language and the system will give you only 1 type of courses

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really??? wonder


i’ve just opened the same German 4 “It’s all in the past” for UK respectively US: I hear the same male voice in both of them (I mean, other than the natives). As for the spelling, the spelling, what are the differences in fact? (I assume you speak about the German spelling?)