Sunday, 25 September 2011

Mistakes in Memrise Word Lists

This is a list of mistakes I've found in the word lists in memrise. I don't know whether the corrections apply globally or just for me.

ListEnglishErrorCorrectionLiteral Translation, notes
Dutch Unit 1-3
Pearson Longman Text Book		Really?Ech waar?Echt waar?Really/genuinely true  (Corrected 2011-10-04)
Dutch
The thousand most common words in Dutch		the animalde dierhet dier (Corrected 2011-10-04)
Dutch
The thousand most common words in Dutch		Do you speak English?Spreekt u/jij Engels?Spreekt u Engels / Spreek jij Engels?
Dutch
The thousand most common words in Dutch		Will you help me?Wilt u/jij me helpen?Wilt u me helpen / Wil jij me helpen?
Dutch
The thousand most common words in Dutch		The bushes, should be the bush
de struikThe Dutch word given is singular. The plural is struiken. (28/9/11) (Corrected 2011-10-04)
Dutch
The thousand most common words in Dutch		Radioel radioradioThe Dutch article is 'de'. For some reason it's in Spanish. I added another word with the correct article, but couldn't delete the old one.
Dutch
The thousand most common words in Dutch		The (light) bulb, glove  <-- it doesn't mean glove!
de gloeilamp I think it was meant to say globe maybe?
Dutch
The thousand most common words in Dutch		the bagthe cupde tasThis is translated as the cup which is only the case in Belgian Dutch. In NL Dutch it's  the bag.
Dutch
The thousand most common words in Dutch		the bagthe rucksackde rugzakThe translation should be rucksack or backpack, not a generic bag.
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2 comments:

  1. Ben7 October 2011 at 05:54

    Hi,

    I'm one of the Memrise team - Thank you very much for all these corrections! Help like this is crucial to continually making the content better and better.

    We have now got a comments section on each word (I think that this has been introduced since you made the corrections) so it would be amazing if you could add these sorts of comments to words when you edit them. That way all the other users of the wordlist can keep track of the changes that are being made.

    I would also love to hear any ideas that you have about how we could make Memrise even better for learning Dutch.

    Thanks and best wishes!

    Ben Whately

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  2. fnenu7 October 2011 at 07:25

    Hi Ben,
    I have put a comment in the discussion of some but I tried to write a comment on some of them, but was unable.

    I thought originally I was just making changes to the list I saw and not for everyone, until a friend who has just started checked for me yesterday, I think it was. I was a bit surprised I'd made changes for other people too as I thought only the author of the list would be able to make changes to the global list.

    Thanks for a great product. I'm really enjoying using it and having far more success than with other programs I've used in the past.

    Sarah

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