I am doing a spanish course and was asked for the word for “happy”
I wrote “feliz” which was accepted but the voice said “contento”.
If both words are accepted the one chosen should be spoken otherwise this is very irritating.
I suspect that, in this course, “contento” is the correct answer and that “feliz” was added was an acceptable alternate answer. Alternate answers do not have a voice recording attached to them.
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I noticed the same with estás and eres
I think it is very irritating that there is not even a visual indicator that a accepted but not preferred answer was given.
@JoThelan Yes this is what I figured but sometimes I do the lessons of multiple courses so fast that I mix up words without even knowing. There is no way to go one step back so I often don’t even know what the correct word would have been.
Hi, @pixelass - in case you want to try them out, I don’t use alternatives in any of my courses for the reason you describe, as well as other factors.
http://www.memrise.com/user/ian_mn/courses/teaching/
Good luck with your Spanish learning!
The only other option is for feliz to be marked wrong, which would be misleading for beginners. You should be glad that the course creator spent the time and effort needed to add alternatives to words.
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@ian_mn thanks for the link
@RabbitWho I know and I respect it. This is not against the creator of the course but rather against memrise itself. I think memrise has a long way to go for making a good user experience.
I think it takes quite a while to “get used to” memrise when it could be so intuitive.
IMHO memrise is an awesome idea but there’s just so much to dislike about it. I’ve never had so many issues when trying a new app.
oh, really? how many good app user experiences you made for free for so many languages, in general?
@pixelass I was just thinking about this. The first page after a review is finished is the list of words given in the review session. Taking a little extra time to read the words will tell you what the correct word would have been and will help cement the correct answer. My band instructor used to say “Practice doesn’t make perfect, practice makes permanent.” Sometimes it’s better to slow down a bit, so that you can have the time to learn it correctly.
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they used to have a solution to this, which was that all the words came from a shared wiki… this was an absolute disaster with people constantly changing their words and other people changing them back. So they have tried to fix this, it’s just not as easy as it seems.
If your course doesn’t accept alternatives and you can’t talk to the course creator and ask them to fix it then it is a bad course and you shouldn’t do it. It is a pity we can’t flag bad courses, as it frustrates new people and makes them leave.
A better use of their time and money was buying a huge bus and driving around Europe for a blog that no one even reads.