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Offline liffy

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Memrise - a clever learning tool
« on: July 30, 2012, 06:13:14 PM »
This is an online learning tool that is primarily focused on languages. It's free, and users can contribute where they have knowledge to give. It uses different ways to optimize ones ability to remember the content, as well as being structured in a fun way. In the language course I'm taking, you have a flower for each word you're learning about, and after you've been through it a few times, you 'plant it in your garden', and water it occasionally, by being given different tasks, i.e. writing it phonetically, or using it in a context, in order to solidify the content into your long term memory.

There's also other topics than language one can delve into, but I only discovered this yesterday, so I haven't had time to check it all out yet.

At the moment I'm learning Mandarin, and by now I know 25 signs, and how to pronounce them. Roughly anyway  :P

Here's the website:
_www.memrise.com

You have to register in order to save your content, but if you don't feel like it, it's not compulsory for using the site.

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Offline galleon

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Re: Memrise - a clever learning tool
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2012, 05:35:20 AM »
Wow thats a great site! Thank you for sharing the link

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Re: Memrise - a clever learning tool
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2012, 02:02:32 PM »
Thanks for the link, sent it to my mum since she is learming chinese/mandarin

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Re: Memrise - a clever learning tool
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2012, 01:36:20 AM »
Thanks for the link, that is a nice site. Looks like a way to make learning fun and efficient.

Offline Tristan

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Re: Memrise - a clever learning tool
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2012, 12:23:07 PM »
Thanks for the link, that is a nice site. Looks like a way to make learning fun and efficient.
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Yeah, I'm using it
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Offline Orange Scorpion

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Re: Memrise - a clever learning tool
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2012, 03:10:22 AM »
Thanks liffy... seems very useful.  ;)

Offline Seppo Ilmarinen

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Re: Memrise - a clever learning tool
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2012, 06:34:57 PM »
Thanks alot for the link, liffy! I have to learn swedish in my university and i'm starting from level zero, so this is really useful.

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Re: Memrise - a clever learning tool
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2012, 07:08:43 PM »
Wow, this is cool liffy. Thanks!