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06-16-2013, 06:14 PM
How does it work?
How far have you come along?
How advanced does it go?
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06-16-2013, 07:02 PM
I used the memrise site to practice spanish for a while but stopped using it because it requires you to type in accents for everything, really retarded. I use duolingo instead.
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06-16-2013, 07:20 PM
What do you mean "type in accents"? As in accents on letters, like you're supposed to when you use the Spanish language? If so, that doesn't sound too retarded to me...
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06-16-2013, 08:21 PM
Yes, well, the difference between anos and años is quite stark.
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06-17-2013, 12:22 AM
Absolutely love memrise, but I do feel it's more of a brute force, hard repetition approach. Same way I learned typing in grade 10, index finger F to T over and over for 40 minutes. Because of that I think its better.
On one hand, I completely sympathize with the accents. If I have 5 minutes free, I try and quickly over water 25 or 50 words. In the time it takes to find one accent (especially if you don't have such a keyboard), you probably could have done 5 normal examples.
On the other hand, who cares? I'll often get something wrong because I typed in a synonym. How was I supposed to know which one of the 37 Eskimo words they wanted for snow? That said who cares? Oh no! the software marked you wrong. Had you put the accent in, would it have been right? Worry about if its right or not *for you* with or without accent. It's a slight hassle having to click 2-3 extra times to bypass typing it in right, but oh well. What you consider right and what the software considers right can be different, and truth be told, your score there doesn't matter.
I do wish it was more of a wiki system where people could go in and make small edits to things which are slightly wrong though.
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06-17-2013, 02:24 AM
i had the problem with the accents as well, but the app gets rid of that completely. to type in words, they give you a bunch of buttons with letters on them and you just press the ones you need to spell the word.
i think i doubled my daily vocab volume because the app is so much easier and more fun to handle
cheers