Wait. I found this after digging through Memrise’s created courses,
There are 2 French 2’s? @Rob_Paterson. Explain please, are they 2 separate courses?
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I assumed by “old course” it meant the old–unaltered (still there) courses hence my question about these supposed ‘new’ courses.
Perhaps they have created new levels?
That may be the case, as I’m baffled. I also have been busy with Korean lately.
I wonder if they will improve the Korean 1 course @DW7
Hi Memrise team,
There is one difficulty here. I feel the updated versions are closer to real life language experience and that makes perfect sense for people who finished the previous versions to move to the new ones.
However, it’s almost impossible. The words are almost the same, just examples are different/better. Who will have the patience and time to answer the same questions 6-7 times to put the words to the “known” base?
A very nice solution here is to make “Auto learning” option available for every course, not only for those created by the same user. I honestly can’t imaging users switching from old to new ones now.
I experienced the same problem when I finished 3 Spanish-Spanish, realised there were Spanish-Mexican, and could not switch. It would take too much time. Auto-learning would solve it easily.
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Are there any plans to add more Chinese courses? All the other Memrise courses have 7 levels except for Chinese. Why is this?
AFAIK Auto learning is only available as a course owner or contributor, but not for normal users; it was there before as a feature you could enter as “Auto_learn” in the URL, but was removed even before I have started with Memrise (end of 2016).
If you want to plant a word in one instead of six learning steps, you can use Cooljingle’s “Auto learn” user script on the web portal:
For 2-3 new courses I have started (non typing, user created incl. the 5000 PT words course by BenWhatley) it does not work all the time, but sometimes; it looks like there have been some web code updates by staff in 2018.
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What you see on the teaching page is related to English_UK and English_US variants of their officlal courses.
You should see the new versions of the courses as the old courses are hidden from the repository browser if you have not started them.
Thank you Thomas,
You are right. Cooljingle’s scripts look very efficient. I’m already playing with them.
I have a question
I’m a korean and i’m learning english.
I was learned british English 1-4 course, and i deleted my all learning history because i want to start again
My plan is learning memrise british and american English course at the same time.
But when i just finished english 1 course, I found that new english course 1-2 has released.
I’m so disappointed because i cannot move my learning history to the new course.
But since two course has significant different, especially new courses are more challenging and has much more expressions, I want to start again with new english course.
my plan is to learn British and American English at the same time, I need to new American English course(for Korean speakers). When will you release it?
And currently only 1-2 course are released, When you finished released all english course? is there any plan? I want to start again when all course has released.
If the phone language is set to English US, will these new courses be also available? Or does the update specifically apply for English UK?
I see the phrase “for now” in the above quote.
Yes, that is true, I also noticed the “for now” part. Since the post is now one month old and because these updates seem to also be available for English US, I would kindly request a confirmation for that.
Does that mean if some time ago I started Italian 7 and now have returned to it, I will be doing the old course and not the new one?
If true, how could I get the new one?
Yes, it should be. As the OP says, they have only released new versions of course numbers 1 & 2, so (currently) there will only be the original version of Italian 3 onwards. The “(for now)” comment refers to the language pairs eg UK English/French 1&2, European Spanish/UK English.
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Your old 1-2 courses have another course id and you will still see them on your own “Home” dashboard.
I) Browsing the course repository (from English UK) and selecting the (0),1, 2 courses: memrise.com/courses/english/
II) Browsing the courses which the “Memrise” user is teaching and selecting the English UK ones (true for 0, 1+2): https://www.memrise.com/user/Memrise/courses/teaching/
This should show you only the available courses with the new ids, speaking e.g about French 1+2 (from EN UK), Japanese 0, 1 and 2 (from EN UK).
Alanh has thankfully already jumped in by quoting that the updated offical Memrise courses are not available for the moment for the 3-7 course series or English US.
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Many thanks @Thomas.Heiss - the second way worked:
On this course https://www.memrise.com/course/1121297/italian-7/ I have 120,000 all time points but on this course:
https://www.memrise.com/course/1180526/italian-7/ I have none.
Many of the levels seem to have the same titles (and the words are the same for the first level that I inspected).
Even the course description is the same.
What I can’t tell is if one if for the UK and one for the USA.
PS Level 29 (and many others) are different! (Or in a different order.)
I agree with a comment above, it’s a pity we can’t mark as learned words covered in the first course.
PPS However if you know the word and get it right each time, then it flowers in some two goes earlier. 
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The one in your first link is the UK one and the one in your second link is the USA one. You can check this by changing the “I speak” setting on the course selection page to “English (US)” , then selecting the course and checking the url.
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Thanks - so the USA course has a different structure (!) but isn’t the new version mentioned in this thread?
I did try to find American spelling but couldn’t find any.
These changes look great! Any idea when they will be available for American English? I like the current French courses, but it would be great to try out these new ones! Also are the old courses going to be moved somewhere else, or is this a total replacement course with no option to use the old ones as well? Thanks for the updates!
Hello @pochojoel
About 1 month after the release of the new version of courses (1 & 2) for British English speakers, courses for American English speakers were also released:
If you use the “courses” page of the “web version”, you will see the new version. If you already include the old courses in your learning list, they will remain on your list (they have a different link, and the new courses have not been written over them). If you want, you can learn both versions (new and old).
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