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There is a cool startup that does a lot of the boring legwork of making up memorable images to help with language learning: http://www.memrise.com/ http://www.m
by dbuxton 15y ago
There is a cool startup that does a lot of the boring legwork of making up memorable images to help with language learning: http://www.memrise.com/ http://www.memrise.com/
- jimmyjim 15y agoWow, I see so many startups doing things with language-learning... I don't think I've seen one better executed than the one you've just linked. Wonderful in many ways, I hope they keep creating content. Thanks for the link!
- scoot 15y agoThere was a fantastic site for learning Chinese that had you draw the word shapes and compared them to the correct form, but I didn't bookmark it, and never managed to track it down again. Anyone?
- creamyhorror 15y agoIt could be Skritter. Memrise is really an implementation of the Heisig et al approach to memorizing Chinese characters - imagine their components to be images/shapes of things which they mean, and use those mnemonic images to recall the characters' meanings. Which is, unsurprisingly, the original basis of most Chinese characters anyway, although they've undergone a lot of evolution in the intervening millennia. Unfortunately I'm past the stage that I need to use mnemonics to remember characters, but it's certainly a useful tool for those starting out or at intermediate levels.
- scoot 15y agoThat's the one - thank you!
- ramblerman 15y agowow this is a tremendous resource