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. They merely try to live a little longer and die a little later.Memrise focuses on four core types of lessons: Learn, Review, Immerse, and Communicate. They have no artefacts to give providing vital cultural data. They have no need to be embalmed, like the Sumerians or charmed like antiquarians. These, having fed on history’s desiderata, come out into the sun, hold hands and heed the pigeons that have also come to feed -but not on culture. An apian hum of languages from those who stare, drink coke and share their sandwiches in this Temple to Impermanence. A mass of students represents the human race.
For whom? Today, for whom? Today each room is like a formicarium.
Here in this place they rest, each with its space, its lighting and its label -delicacies upon a cultural table. Gentlemen on grand tours who came to pick and choose from what an ancient people made and were made to lose by Nubian, Ptolemy, Roman and Ottoman -these more concerned with slaves and human plunder than with these artefacts which you have seen and which have made you wonder. Trawled by English gentlemen from a many layered human tragedy. Broken friezes, unhinged doors, fragmented pediments, mosaic floors, gold necklaces that have outlived their necks failed amulets – all trawled from these Egyptian wrecks. There, the many who swarmed along the Nile and lived and loved among a host of enemies, stare with dead eyes and frozen smile with a rich, dark hunger to reawaken in the sun. To an Egyptian archaeological mortuary dismembered torsos and massive heads, disjointed arms and shattered legs imitations of flesh and bone in granite, sandstone, marble and obsidian.
To the British Museum in W3 in very different company.
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