(2016-05-20, 8:24 pm)rainmaninjapan Wrote: It's a really bad idea to start using Memrise, unless you plan to ditch it soon. It gives you too many reviews, lacks customization, and penalizes typos and you can't adjust vague questions, so you'll keep getting the same things wrong even when you know the answers. Moreover, a course creator can just delete a course, and I assume something bad might happen as a result (not sure what). And you can't edit if there are mistakes. And you can't do any of the great things anki has to offer.
The only good course to go with Memrise is one that doesn't use it long-term, just brute forcing basic vocabulary, and then going into extensive reading/listening mode and never using it again.
If you're going to learn Japanese, how can a mere Anki interface intimidate you?
I'm purposely going through the reviews with Memrise starting with the first course. I get what you're saying about too many reviews but so far it seems that's in the initial "learning" phase to get the flower meaning a couple of front to back, couple of back to front, audio to back, back to audio. After that it's learned and goes in the SRS method. There's also the option to skip the speed reviews and listening reviews and just worry about learning which should help.
I'm not putting in any typing into the lessons so typos will not be an issue. If I can get the "tapping" to work to put sentence fragments in order, I'll activate that for grammar only. I even removed the RTK/KO2k1 kanji course requirement to enter the Kanji using an IME. Figured people can write down the reviewed kanji on their own during the lesson summary. No need to force someone to do it.
Just like with Anki, I do not intend to delete these course. Those with Anki can even download the Memrise courses with a plug-in though the existing decks would be a better option.
Finally, I'm not really doing it for people on this forum. Usually, people here know about Anki and will prefer that anyway. However, Memrise likely will have a wider audience and is easier to use and get into. If in doing these courses they find out about the Heisig method, Reviewing the Kanji website, Anki and these forums then that would be a win.