I began taking Memrise Spanish (Mexico) yesterday. My question is: Will I be fluent in Spanish after I complete all 7 parts? Or what level of Spanish will I be at after I complete it?
I guess I have to see where Iām at after I complete all 7 parts. Iām hoping I have a good knowledge of Spanish after I complete it. In my opinion Memrise is a better learning tool than Duolingo. The audio on Duolingo is really horrible.
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Well good questions ! and it depends on the course you take & the way you practice out of the course. learning a language is not just plugging an USB key in your head and speakā¦ I wished!
nevertheless memrise is based on research on learning languages and itās a great tool to learn.
When selecting a course make sure you have more sentences that just words.
Then do not limit yourselves to memrise but take any advantage to speak & learn. I 'm sure memrise will help you a lot ! (it helped me and a lot of friends ! )
Good study !
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For me Memrise is the best language learning site I have been too! I checked out other ones and I like this one the best. Great way to learn spanish.
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If you will have finished some Memrise courses and grammar language basics with DuoLingo or other sources, you might want to further check out:
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www.50languages.com (also available on Memrise as user-created courses; you need āAudio providerā user script to have full audio support and maybe āall typingā, āauto correctā)
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www.lingvist.com and free 3000 Spanish words / sentences (the ES course was updated and has over 5000 words available!): Has MUCH better audio than DuoLingo TTS Spanish and Google TTS Spanish!
I tested to learn 1000 Spanish words with Lingvist in 11days (end of year 2017 challenge), and if you have a good base, it might be fun for you to see some sentences in action and be tested on typing (fill in the blank).
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try Clozemaster (sentences and missing word)
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try the Spanish hacking āfluentin3monthsā course which was created on Memrise; someone suggested it/the book for Spanish (because I am missing material for PT BR), if I would have switched the languages
Personally I like the mixture of the Basic, 1-7 courses + 50languages + DuoLingo + Lingvist (only English, Russian, French + Spanish available) for my Portuguese BR learning.
The more mixed resources, the betterā¦
Now I will start audio/video Podcasts in 2018 after 1 yearā¦
In every course you IMHO learn something differentā¦
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DuoLingo will explain (for Portuguese, not so much for the Spanish tree what I have heard) on the web portal with āhints and tipsā some very good details about āgrammar skillsā.
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Lingvist e.g blends in additional tips from the bottom of the screen, including tenses / infintives / personal inflections.
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Memrise (PT Basic, PT1-7) courses use a mixed variaty of sentences and tense / subjunctive stuff, which is good, but somehow you have to ālearnā it elsewhere (e.g books), or you need to be ready to do it by trial and error (and for one thing you should read about imperative etc. elsewhere, otherwise you might not recognize / recall it correctly in a sentence)
I have really no idea, if offical 1-7 Memrise courses will push you beyond A1 / A2. Their FAQ talks in a different way.
Letās wait for offical ambassador feedbackā¦
I would say from my experience (with Portuguese), that it might be a first step, you need to use different resources and progress further: start listening (e.g DuoLingo stories), read books (longer text paragraphs, recorded by natives), speaking, etc.
Back to your question:
Will I be fluent?
How can you get (be) fluent just by reading / writing, and not actively talking with a teacher and language partners? 
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I checked: Memrise courses parts 1-7 claim to say you will be at a b-1 level after you complete it. If you read and write and listen to music and watch television you could go beyond a b-1 level.
Ćou could test it for yourself.
Test your A1/A2/B1 vocabulary which tests the min and upper ranges of each section.
There was a thread on the DuoLingo discussion forum how to manually test and calculate this; but I canāt remember the link or thread id.
https://www.17-minute-languages.com/en/Spanish-placement-test/
I did the two Portuguese EU (Portugal) and Portuguese BR tests and after 1,2 years and having finished my DuoLingo EN-PT forward tree and Memrise courses I can test out to B1 or B1 and a half.
After 11 days Lingvist and learning 1000 Spanish (frequency) words I can test out to A1 and a half, but (of course) not knowing ALL basic A1-A2 words.
I love this language site! Iām learning Spanish really good from it. And going pro is so affordable. I like the price to learn a language on this site. Very good deal. Iām not a linguist I just wanted to learn a second language. This site is helping me accomplish that goal. Spanish is a very popular language. Almost as popular as English. Spanish is worth putting forth hard work in it to learn it.
Question I am learning Spanish Mexico. I noticed memrise has intermediate and advanced Spanish also. But I think it is the Spain version. I was told I will understand it because it is the same language. Is this information correct?
I live in the far south of Texas, and can assure you the difference between the two is like American and British-English. You will understand one with the other just fine. Mexican-Spanish is a tad faster. Itās when you start bringing other dialects of Spanish you start to have some issues, (but natives understand just fine). Iām talking about various countries in South America.
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I have heard that. I live in Florida. Itās mostly the same here, too, when there are a bunch of different Spanish people around (Iām not trying to be derogative; I just couldnāt think of a better word to use). The only real difference, at least from what Iāve heard, in the Spanish language is when comparing Spanish-Mexican to Spanish-Portugese. I have heard, though, that Spanish-Portugese is more, I donāt know, maybe more sophisticated or complex? I donāt remember if I remember that correctlyā¦ 
I could be wrong.
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I just found an advanced Spanish (Mexico) course on Memrise. Fantastic. After I complete the 7 part Spanish (Mexico) series I will move right into the advanced Spanish course designed for B2 learners. Iām glad someone put a Mexican one on Memrise. This was the only one with the Mexican flag on it.
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When you actually want to compare Spanish (either Mexican or Spain Europe variants) to Portuguese, of course the difference is even more:
IMHO Portuguese (either EU/Portugal or Brazil variants) is a completely different language, with (very) different language basics (persons, pronouns, verbs, person verb conjugations, etc.), besides Spanish and Portuguese sharing ~89% lexican similarities (see Wikipedia): http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/languages/similarities/index.html
e.g hablar (SP) vs falar (SP), hacer (SP) vs fazer (PT), tener (SP) vs ter (PT), Hoy (SP) vs hoje (PT), Yo (SP) vs Eu (PT), Yo soy (SP) vs Eu sou (PT), Yo estoy (SP) vs Eu estou (PT), etc.
The pronuncation (e.g PT BR) is quite different too.
Maybe you can compare American English - British English with Portuguese EU/Portugal - Portuguese Brazil; but I have heard that there are differences including grammar and I have not learned PT EU yet?!
I was able to only test-out 18 words of Spanish on Lingvist, even I learned Portuguese Brazil for 1,2 years before.
Basically I re-learned from scratch 1000 Spanish words on Lingvist for my 2017 challenge in 11 days.
Sometimes the identical Portuguese word is (rarely) accepted or at least quite similiar for the meaning but most of the times with a very different writing and pronunciation, or even completely different.
I might learn one day how to transform writing from Portuguese -> Spanish 
Same for DuoLingo Spanish (EN-SP):
I failed to test out the Duo Spanish placement test two times on the web portal (typing, listening exercises), but managed to successfully test-out on the Android app (tapping, many hints, much more easy) to level 9 (all three checkpoints + 3 more skills).
So the biggerdifferences are there (man, woman, son, boy/girl, etc.).
I basically would have to keep re-learning Spanish from scratch (verbs, different person conjugations), if I would want to progress further or be able to write and speak Spanish (or even read/listen).
Probably it would be much easier / faster to do it with my (limited) Portuguese Romance background and hopefully with even some more Romance language similarities in grammar / tenses, etc.
My plan was that I will try to progress more the next 1-2 years with Portuguese (focus on intermediate/advanced, listening, speaking, etc.) before I get totally confused with Spanish
We will see if I find āmy wayā how to deal with itā¦
Any advanced or native Portuguese speaker is welcome to join this discussion 
Question @JiminieVKook Do you maybe have a few Portuguese EU or Brazil speakers in Florida, or just Spanish speakers?
I hate German / Europe winters more and more (too cold, rainy, not much snow in South/Nuremberg for Snowkiting, etc.) and I got in contact with Peter from Kitesyndikat in 2012 who visited Florida in Februar for pure Kitesurfing vacation fun.
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No, gracias is NOT Portuguese!!!
āThank youā in Portuguese is: obrigado, obrigada
Ā”vamos! (Letās go) is Vamos! in Portuguese.
Ā”vamos! (Come on!) seems to be Venha! in Portuguese.(Imperative from vir)
of course youāre right, but as graƧas = der Dank (not that the p.velleroux was right, he wasnt and I ever heard that pronunciation, but because the word existsā¦)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dialects_and_varieties;
and no, Memrise 1-7 does not take you even to B1. And no, youāll never get fluent with memrise only
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@Thomas.Heiss Thanks for the clear up. I didnāt know (or I just couldnāt remember) that it was a totally different language, not an extended and more complex version of Spanish, one that sometimes even can confuse Spanish natives (certain words or pronunciations), at least from what Iāve heard. Like I said before, I could be wrong, and if I am do correct me, because I donāt want to look like an idiot (although, who would 
). Though thanks for correcting me. I appreciate youāre added knowledge. I have met a couple of Portuguese speakers (they spoke in English, though) in Florida, along with many Spanish (Mexican) speakers, but I donāt think Iāve ever met any Brazillians. Not to say that there arenāt any Brazillians here, because Iām sure there are.
Congratulations for getting as far as you did on your language speaking and I hope that you plans become reality.
Iāve been to Germany before, but I was real little when that happened (2-3 years old), so I hardly remember any of it, if any at all. Iāve never done the whole kitesurfing thing; I donāt even know how to surf.
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I disagree with you! I think you can get good enough to understand spanish music and even read a book if you keep studying.
Memrise believes soā¦
Iām telling you right now, there is no way Memrise takes you up to B1. They are being a little disingenuous in saying that. B1 is by all purpose the āāfluencyāā stage. Where you can make your self understood and be understood in most context and subjects (despite how rough it may be). Most long term users here will tell you the same thing. Memrise can shoot you up to A2 faster than anything else and that is where it stops being useful as far as itās own courses.
There is a lot more to A2 and B1 than people realize.
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Hmā¦ I did find a website called Bliu Bliu (if any of you have ever heard of it - https://bliubliu.com/). Itās for advanced language learners. Iām not there yet (basically a beginner in Bliu Bliuās eyes - I suggest you donāt use it if you are a beginner, so I wonāt until Iām better); not enough to understand a lot of the dialogue. So, maybe, itāll work for you guys, because of the fact that that websiteās geared more for the highly advanced learners.
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