Memrise: speak a new language

Nathan Oliver

It feels like slow progress, going over things I've gotten right many times before. Likely that's what it takes for vocabulary and usage to become second nature. Great variety of approaches - definitions, comprehension, composition, spelling, and so on. I also like that it comes at the material both starting from the English and starting from the French, and gives the original, literal translation, and the vernacular. I think all that helps create a more immediate and instinctive understanding.

Amanda King

I got the app to help me learn vocabulary in my Korean course and it is helping a lot. I really enjoy some of the memes, they do help me remember the words. I also use duolingo, but it isn't connected to the howtolearnkorean course, so the vocabulary doesn't match, which is helpful for variety, but I'm really appreciating not having to keep track of the words I'm learning. The only bug is that every time I start up the app, it says that something went wrong. But I can work around it.

Mitchel Stellmacher

With the Japanese course, unless you have prior experience with hiragana or katakana, just feel when learning phrases it could be a little difficult for new learners but otherwise it is a great set up with actually people who speak the language teaching you it where many apps are computer generated voices and don't allow for accents or stressing on certain words. I only have experienced the free part of this app so maybe it's a little fine tuned with the purchase, otherwise I would recommend

Maile Neel

After spending 2 years trying to learn Portugues with Duolingo, I finally realized couldn't complete any of the basic functions of daily life or travel. Memrise was recommended and in three days I have learned more than I did in the entire time on Duolingo. It is a great app. Can't recommend it highly enough.

Carontte Grey

Used Memrise several years back (browser and app), decided to check it out again. The app is completely intolerable now because of the fullscreen video ads. However, if you are interested in Memrise I recommend checking out the browser version. There you can also search and enroll in user-made courses which you can use in the app.

Margaret Williams

Overall I like Memrise, but I have one big problem, the listening exercises come in two volumes soft and loud. I have a hearing loss, and if I get a soft listening exercise in the range of my hearing loss I can crank the volume only to get yelled at by the next exercise. That's not enjoyable at home, and untenable outside of the home with headphones.

Kirk Cockrell

Memrise is a nice app, however there are some shortcomings. Pronunciation is terrible. Some speakers don't enunciate well so it is difficult to understand them. You hear 3 different speakers say the same thing 3 different ways. Which one do I learn? On some exercises, they leave out the correct sequence of words as well as pronunciation. Memrise is useful, but you will have to learn correct pronunciation elswhere.

Xavier. P

So far so good, learning alot! I grew up hearing Spanish my whole life, but sadly never learned to speak it. I understand alot if its not said too fast. This app is really helping me put things into perspective, with all the different forms of words and how to use them. My comprehension has definitely improved since using this app and my vocabulary as well. I also like the way things get mixed up but with repetition, verbally, written, and vocally. It really helps me learn! Def give it a try!