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While these aren't essential, they can elevate your learning experience when you use them.

When you pay to access Memrise Pro, you'll unlock a number of new features to help you on your language learning journey. Getting comfortable hearing yourself speak in another language is one of Memrise’s key goals. Of course, the thing that Memrise encourages you to do is speak aloud at all, even if it’s not entirely accurate. Rather than tell you exactly how good or bad the pronunciation is, it simply tells you whether it’s close enough to pass, or if you need to try again. The only downside to this feature is its simplicity. The other exercise challenges you to lip-sync to the videos of the native speakers. One exercise allows the learner to test their pronunciation. This is the feature in which Memrise encourages its students to speak aloud. The Immersion feature is broken down into two activities: one that features video to clue you in to the words or phrases based on body language, and one that is a listening-only lesson designed to encourage comprehension. Immerse: Learn With Native Speakersįundamentally the same as the review portion, the Immersion feature of Memrise simply drops the computerised narration and gives you a wider selection of native speakers to learn from. These words are determined by Memrise’s adaptive engine, designed to achieve that crucial long-term retention. In addition to the exercises available in the Learn section, there are speed tests to drill yourself with, as well as a special section dedicated to the words you’ve struggled with in earlier lessons. This part of the lesson offers more options to help you retain what you’ve already learned. To quote their own material, “learning grammar too early slows progress.”Ī unique feature of Memrise’s content is that, in addition to the computerised narration, lessons also include video clips of various native speakers in order to expose learners to different accents.

You’ll learn a new grammar point about every other lesson, though Memrise takes a very hands-off approach in terms of learning grammar. These new vocabulary options will have a computerised voice in male and female to let you hear how the word is pronounced.įollowing that, you will progress through a handful of different activities to reinforce the new vocabulary or grammar point. Each lesson will introduce a handful of new words and phrases, giving you the word itself, the English translation, and a literal translation. This is the core of your new lesson plan. You will be able to set daily goals for yourself based on the amount of time you want to spend on lessons each day. Memrise uses a points system to track your progress both individually and comparatively against other users progressing through the same language. You can use the dashboard to easily navigate between courses, monitor your progress, and access the next lesson in your target language. Upon login, you will immediately see your dashboard.

Though similar in their design, each type of lesson has a specific goal in which to help you learn and retain your target language.

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Maybe people who actually use uTalk regularly will comment here too but in any case, they’re offering a free trial to those at the conference, so people can assess whether it’s likely to be worth it to them before paying anything.Memrise focuses on four core types of lessons: Learn, Review, Immerse, and Communicate. In my earlier post, I was just trying to explain why those who do like to study that way shouldn’t necessarily be put off by some of the less complimentary reviews. However, I’ve played around with it after winning free credits in the quizzes and it looks to be very good at what it aims to do. Now, I feel a bit bad saying this, given that I love their quizzes and really appreciate the effort they put into making them fun, but uTalk doesn’t really suit the ways I like to study, though I can envisage circumstances where I might use it temporarily in the future. I certainly don’t mind paying for things that are useful and that people have put some hard work into, but you’re right, we do have to keep track to make sure we don’t continue paying subs for things we’re not using.

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