#memrise

Well met!

Ah yes — you’re not imagining things. Sadly, Memrise decided to "sunset" its community courses, gradually removing access to them (along with several other helpful features). As a result, the Neo-Khuzdul courses had to be moved elsewhere.

Thankfully, a fellow member of our Discord community reached out to the team at Deckademy — a new platform that’s essentially what Memrise should have been all along: no corporate meddling, and no vanishing content.

Even better: they were able to clone all the old courses — including the Quenya one — and host them there. A huge thanks to them for saving me the time!

You can now find all the former Memrise Dwarvish courses here: 👉 https://deckademy.com/#/decks?s=&icat=2&tcat=107

The links on my website will be updated at a later time, as I’m currently doing a bit of reworking behind the scenes.

Hope this helps you on your language-learning journey — and thank you for taking the time to look into it!

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Genki chapter 1 + 2 and workbook, learned 120 kanji (grade 1 plus few from grade 2) reading N6 stories, vocabulary on Memrise, Lingodeer app lessons

The amount of stuff covered in these new courses is kinda lacking from what I've seen tho. But eh, you gotta start somewhere. It'll either get updated at a later date or you just move on to something else when you're all done.

夕 [xī] - evening

名 [míng] - name

千 [qiān] - a thousand

舌 [shé] - tongue

不 [bù] - no; not

的 [de] - belonging to

大 [dà] - big

又 [yòu] - again

粥 [zhōu] - congee

茶 [chá] - tea

橙子 [chéngzi] - orange (the fruit)

子 [zi] - child; noun suffix

了 [le] - completed action marker

错了 [cuòle] - wrong

对了 [duìle] - correct; oh, by the way...

Not rude at all! I addressed it a little bit in this ask, but I never did fully elaborate.

The short version is that the problems with Duolingo (cutting community features and shifting more on AI) are also happening with Memrise.

Longer version is that one of the best features of Memrise imho was the community courses. Especially since Quizlet has monetized many features, it seemed to fill that niche very well. The base courses used real audio and video, which is a big upgrade from DL. Along with the removal of community courses, the forums were also removed. This disconnects users from not just each other, but also from having a public method to address the company. I found the official Memrise explanations for these decisions to be unsatisfying. Fortunately for many users, someone in the Memrise community has been uploading community courses to a new site—mylittlewordland! No app atm, and very bare bones, but still functional! Definitely worth checking out.

I created that post as a way to give people easy alternatives to switch to, and while the main courses of Memrise are better than DL, I feel that it would become yet another dead end of corporate greed. I wouldn't be surprised if any of the apps I did recommend also eventually go down this path—some are in the early stages for sure. Ultimately, I decided to recommend what seemed like the easiest alternatives to switch to as people are hesitant to make changes to something that has become a part of their routine.