Memrise English to Kanji/Kana Vocab Course

WaniKani API And Third-Party Apps
#6
Shimachi said... I use memrise a lot, and I'd like to mention that once you've learnt the items, memrise will nearly always prompt you to write them. I have 200-ish reviews on there every 日, and maybe 2 of those are "select the 正しい answer from x amount of items" type quizzes, and it always happens on items I've failed a 少ない times before. So yeah, 99% of the time you will have to write it. (It should be mentioned that I've never 中古 memrise to learn kanji, only to learn vocab. I know their hanzi courses rarely have you type 中 the hanzi, so that might be the issue.)

Iirc their method for teaching you the item is something like this: 1. E->J, pick the Japanese word from a list of words, 2. J->E, pick the English translation from a list, 3 and 4 are typing prompts E->J.

Well, I don't have that many reviews, but this sure sounds reassuring! Thanks for sharing that info :)
#7

minecrawlerx could you add me on Skype please? My username is floe025.

#8

UPDATE: I added level 2 :slight_smile:

floe said…
minecrawlerx could you add me on Skype please? My username is floe025.
 will do once I get home
#9

Awesome, thanks for doing that. :slight_smile:

#10

Interesting idea. By the way, that Rhino image caught me totally off card. That’s my new mnemonic from now on for the “Below” Kanji.

#11

If anyone wants another mempal, my username is ‘‘Mintbear’’ :) 

#12

I added level three. But I have so little time at the moment. If anyone wants to help me by adding a level from time to time - that would really speed up things.

#13

This is great! How can I help?

#14

So I did some work myself and at http://www.memrise.com/course/257736/wanikani-reverse-kanji/

I have only the Kanji so far not the Vocab list.

If there is interest I can make a deck for Vocab too.

#15

I could invite you as editors. Let’s do this together!

#16

Sure I could provide all the vocab in a .csv format (also all the kanji in a .csv as well) You could then just add them in bulk to memrise.

For the Vocab I still need a day or so because I am on mobile right now and will be back home late.

Username is the same as here.

#17

I didn’t know that you can import a .csv. Also that might make problems when choosing a vocab version with audio file (they sometimes already exist and I prefer having audio^^)
Either way, I will add you as editor. Thank you!

#18

I live in japan and am slowly learning the language. I have found that kanji i know the words vfor are much easier to remember. I started using memrise now o help more. But knowing migi and hidari or iriguchi and deguchi help on thing i would have struggled with early on.

#19

Is this any different than reversing sides on an Anki deck?

#20

Oh great! I couldn’t find any premade deck with vocabulary for Memrise (it’s searching system sucks), which I use for learning English, so I started making my own deck. Great to see you’ve already done this! I hope you’ll bulk add these next levels before my level up :slight_smile:

#21
minecrawlerx said... I added level three. But I have so little time at the moment. If anyone wants to help me by adding a level from time to time - that would really speed up things.
 I can help with whatever you need just let me know :)
#22

Are these “Arrange the Kanji” question reasonable? I don’t like and turned them off in a course I was making. Maybe I’m wrong, so could anybody tell me if they have good learning value?

#23

So here is a short update on my work:


I had to make my own Memrise deck OR delete/rearrange all your work in the current one.

I went with making my own.

I have all 5028 Vocab in the following format: Kanji; English;  Alternative Meanings; Kana; Audio
Everything is script generated and should be without error. If something is really wrong message me.

When there are no "Alternative Meanings" I have adapted the WaniKani "N/A" instead of a blank "".

You have to write Katakana where Katakana are needed.

For audio I have auto-generated Japanese TTS (female voice on a normal speed) files for every vocab that I am currently uploading to Memrise.
These are based on the Kana readings so they should all be right. 

For the deck itself I have it set to: Test on Kana, prompt with English.

My reasoning is that you should be able to remember the the pronunciation not the kanji itself. Also all IMEs would just autocomplete the kanji based on the kana anyway. With the time restrictions in Memrise and in general this seems to be the best solution.

You can find it under the following link: http://www.memrise.com/course/258519/wanikani-reverse-vocab/
#24

@ESaller: That’s a nice list, thank you! I added the link to post 1 :slight_smile:

#25

I gave it a quick test drive. I like it :slight_smile:

I can’t make a final judgement until I use it longer but I do like the time constraint as it forces me to churn out an answer quickly.