The thing that I like most about SRS is that it does all the “back end work” for you, so you can spend all of your time learning. I used it a lot with the flashcard program Anki, but it’s something that almost all language learning companies are taking advantage of, so it’s quickly becoming the norm. It’s actually a pretty great tool since it allows you to spend your time efficiently by focusing on the things that need your attention the most. The basic explanation is that it is a system that is able to track how well you remember certain words and phrases and can then organize the review sessions in such a way that the stuff you know really well gets reviewed less often and the things that you struggle with come up more often. I won’t go into the science too deeply on what a spaced repetition system is, since it might become a little boring and I’m sure a lot of you are familiar with it already. This comes into play with their primary learning method: SRS. The Memrise program knows what words you know and how well you remember them by the number of times you get the answers right (or wrong). You learn a lot of new words in this way, introduction followed by a lot of different review, before moving on to new words. These tests are of course mixed in with learning other new words and then being tested on those other new words, so it forces you to recall information that you had learned not too long ago. There are actually quite a few different ways that they have you interact with new words through both reading and listening. Or they might let you listen to the word, and then you have to choose which option is spelled correctly. They might do this by showing you the word and then having you select the correct translation in English. Then you will learn a few other new words before they then test you on 久しぶり to see if you remember what this particular word means. For example, in some of the earlier lessons they teach you that 久しぶり (hisashiburi) is a casual way to tell someone “long time no see” like in the screen shot below: The first thing that I noticed was that they present the same information to you in multiple ways throughout a lesson.įor example, you might learn five new words throughout a single lesson, but they will all be mixed up and presented to you in a systematic method.Īt first, you will be given the word and its meaning. While I don’t know every single method or technique that Memrise uses to help users learn a new language, there were a couple of them that really stood out to me as I went through the course. 6) Have You Used Them Before? The Science Behind Their Method
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