I’m just starting out on Farsi and I’ve noticed within the first few lessons after “hello” “I am” etc. that I’m now learning “soldier”, “The navy” “The air force”. I’m also sure I saw “I am a holy soldier” as one of the possible answers in the multiple choice (although I might have dreamt that!). How long before they give me “surface to air”, “scud” and “RPG”?
Given that I want to have normal conversations before I get into the US and its allies’ policies in Afghanistan and the middle east why is Memrise feeding me such vocab’? Or is this just a “glitch”?
Memrise’s promo material seemed so fluffy- all those hippsters in an East End converted church! Is it a front for the CIA/MI5 and the Republican Guard?
I suppose it could be more useful than “the horse is eating the holy potato” which pops up in Duolingo’s German course.
memrise is not feeding you anything - there are no so called “official” Farsi courses. In your profile I see only one course, one made by an user called @weapa - and as I noticed over these years, a pretty good course. The curriculum is close to a basic Farsi course university level.
Just take another course, sth with “tourist”/“primer”, “introductory”/“beginner”"“children” (or ignore the items you dislike - although, if I would start learning English, I would be probably curious to know what words do the natives use for their huge military apparatus/es etc)
Thanks for your answer Hydroptere, So I take it this is a course which hasn’t been through any vetting (no pun intended) process. In fact the name “@weapa” should have given me a hint at the content!
It’s kind of hard to ignore the military bent to this course. But so far word list is pretty much: Hello, you, am, I, we, good day, good afternoon, soldier, marines, The air force, The navy, armed forces, sergeant, thank you,
…and no I wasn’t dreaming it one of the options for the Farsi for “he” was “he, whose blood shall be spilt with impunity.”
Alarm bells ringing.
I think I’m going to take your advice and look for a less hawkish course.