Hi Maxine - thanks - I saw you are doing the 5000 words and the Polyglot one too.
Thanks everyone for your suggestions.
I think that’s enough to keep me busy for a good while 
1 Like
I wonder if someone could add a link to this cloned version on the original course please - otherwise it will never be found.
Just the course number would do.
Not sure exactly what you’re after. I’ve edited Ian’s post where he posted a link to the original course (further up, above my posting with the link to “Dirty French Slang” so that the link stands out. Is that what you meant?
Because Ian posted a link to his own course as well (see his last post above).
Hi @Olaf.Rabbachin,
What I meant was could someone who looks after Ciccero’s » original course « post “MCQ version Course 6324770” in the course description (hopefully they can add that in to the limited characters) as that is enough for people to find it.
I just went ahead and re-read some of the older posts. Back in 2019 I offered to contribute to the course.
Back then, @chartalegna (who seems to be the same person as Ciccero) was still active and obviously didn’t want to add me as a contributor.
I’d suggest you tag her/him in → the course’s original thread. If she/he doesn’t reply there, you and/or I can again refresh my contributor-request from back then (see → this thread).
1 Like
Hi, Thanks for thinking about that but I’m not sure it would do much good.
A few weeks ago, I made an MCQ version of a very popular Spanish course that I look after, and I included details of the new MCQ version in the original course’s homepage. The original course has about 122,000 subscribers but the MCQ version currently has only 10, including me!
I think the quickest way to find these MCQ courses is to search for “MCQs” on Web Memrise. But it seems unlikely that anyone will think of doing that.
1 Like
Good idea (once in the language or category of choice).
And sadly they can only be found with a web search and not via the app.
And not many people know that.
1 Like
Actually, a top level, general Memrise web search for “MCQ” currently generates a list of only 16 courses, of which 6 are mine, so there’s no need to work out of a particular category. But someone would have to know to search for “MCQ” to find my MCQ courses - which would probably only work for someone who has read this thread.
Here’s a tip for anyone creating language courses.
Memrise automatically and randomly adds audio to about 10% of items in a course and fair proportion of these clips sound very bad. To delete all of the Memrise generated audio clips, simply delete the audio column then add a new column (specifying ‘audio’).
Adding a new column involves clicking on, for example
“Edit_Course/databases/French”,
(e.g. when creating a French course.)
I think only a course creator can delete or add columns.
After that, fresh audio clips can be added and, for many common languages, computer-generated audio clips can (if desired) be bulk added using the free Google Chrome Memrise Audio Uploader add-on: Memrise Audio Uploader - Chrome Web Store
4 Likes
That might simply be due to the fact that most such courses have “no typing” instead of “MCQ” in their description. 
I’d recommend to put that in your courses’ description (instead) to make sure people will find them.
2 Likes
Hi, I just tried a “no typing” search, and it seems to list mainly Norwegian and Japanese courses (and none of the results are “no typing” courses). So I don’t think I’ll spend time making this change. 
Try “NT” and “N/T” as often in the description.
It used to work.
1 Like
Thanks for the suggestion, but “NT” seems to be the current abbreviation for New Testament, at least in the unofficial Memrise courses. I don’t think I’m going to spend any time on this.
True, but it does seem to work if in the title or description.
I’ll investigate further later.
Also “[NT]” is often used.
Thank you, but I’d suggest that you don’t spend time looking at this further. I don’t think it’s important (at least it’s not to me).
1 Like
In case anyone is interested, I created a “no typing/ MCQ” version of the Memrise official French course series (3099 items in total).
2 Likes
How does this course compare to the official Memrise French course ? I ask because I am on the second part of said course but if this one is better I might switch
Hi Alan,
My “French 1 to 7 - MCQs” course contains all the vocabulary that’s in the seven official Memrise French courses but contains only multiple-choice questions (MCQs) that test in both the EN→FR and FR→EN directions. So the course is complementary to the official courses and offers a different testing format.
Additionally, @DW7 recently added levels to test FR-audio → EN which could be useful for anyone training their ear for the language.
I’m guessing that most people will prefer to use the official courses for learning the vocabulary but some may find the MCQs course useful for revision, particularly when using a smartphone.
As you’ve already worked though the official Memrise French 1 course you might at some point decide to review the vocabulary using the first three levels of the MCQs course.
3 Likes
I agree with Ian
The course is complementary to the official courses and offers a different testing format.
This course is no substitute to the official excellent courses but good for revision - especially if you prefer comprehension to typing.
1 Like