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I've discovered some very annoying bugs relating to the Hangul input system. Anyone else having these problems?

In "2000 Essential Korean Words for Beginners" list, we find the word "mistake" two times. So it's not possible to know if we should write 실수 or 잘못:

http://www.memrise.com/item...
http://www.memrise.com/item...


Thank you!

There is a mistake in this word: http://www.memrise.com/item...

It's 고치다, right?

Thank you!

Memrise will soon be adding in an in-browser keyboard which will help a great deal with this.

But in the meantime, the simplest way to type in Korean is to install the Korean fonts forrwing istructions such as [these](http://mylinguistics.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/installing-ms-korean-ime/)

Then, you could buy a sticker set to convert your keyboard to a Koran one. You can buy those [here](http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=Korean+keyboard+stickers&x=0&y=0)

Sorry for this being a slightly half-hearted solution, the full one is on its way soon!

I've thought about how we could use the part of speech, gender and special properties fields of memrise for Korean.

For part of speech:
명사 - nouns
대명사 - pronouns
수사 - number words
동사 - action verbs
형용사 - descriptive verbs (adjectives)
관형사 - determinatives
부사 - adverbs
감탄사 - interjections
조사 - particles

For gender I don't know yet and for special properties maybe indicate if a number is native Korean or Sino-Korean. Please add your suggestions.

If you are good at working with excel, large amounts of data, and have a more than basic understanding of the Korean language, I would really appreciate help with the translation of this list.

hi - glad to see the samples are playing again for mandarin, but it seems like the timing of when/how they play has changed? (and something with the change makes them stutter, sometimes, in chrome).
Before, it used a be a pretty nice sequence - see the question, answer it, hear the sample, then the screen changed to the next character.
Now, it's more like - see the question, answer it, next character appears, and then hear the sample. A little mental dissonance of hearing the a different character than the one you're looking at. I know it might seem like a small thing, but it makes a difference, trying to learn all these.

There are now a few people who are working together on consistently improving the Korean content. So I thought that the time is ripe to try to both to stir the debate about what needs to be done, and then to formalise this into some goals. Then we can all work together to meet those goals.

And of course you can suggest what you think are the most important things that you need from Memrise in terms of infrastructure improvements etc.

So please do introduce yourselves and lets get it worked out!

RickCarlino has made much of the running on the Korean content to date (though several others have done excellent work as well), so is perhaps in the best position to say what needs to be done next. But let me make a couple of suggestions from the way that we have worked on other languages:

1 - we need to get a set of conventions that we agree on. There is a discussion thread on these, so if you have any ideas or objections, please add them in. We will try to get the finalised ASAP because all the other work is built on these and we need a solid foundation.

2 - work out what list we want to fill out. Eg would it be a good target to try to fill out Rick's list of 6,000 words? If so then we could break that into a bunch of smaller sets so that everyone could work on a smaller set and everyone would know the size of the task. Does that sound like a good idea? If not, what would be a good target?

3 - at the moment the Korean-specific volunteers that I have down on the list are: RickCarlino, hajinlee, JasonStewart2 and TL-izolight. Are there any more people who would like to be involved? - the more people who are helping, the faster the process will be, of course!

4 - We have an infrastructure to allow people to "merge" duplicate items. This is going to be important because the aim is to have one consolidated database of words. Then people can create wordlists by just uploading lists of Korean words, with no translations, and the uploader will populate the wordlist with all the items drawn from the database. We are setting up the permissions to allow "topic curators" to do this. What other tools would be most useful for you?

Looking forward to hearing your ideas!

Ben

Hey all, I want to bring your attention to these two word lists.

http://www.memrise.com/set/...
http://www.memrise.com/set/...

The Korean Numbers Money (KNM) list is simply 일, 이, 삼 ect... and the Numbers Things (NT) list is 하나, 둘, 셋...

These are separate lists, but have the same questions. For example:

KNM 'one' -> '하나'
NT 'one' -> '일'

I made a mistake revising my lists and found that the answers are interchangeable. Either answer is correct for either list. I just wanted to point it out. Is this a side effect of merging the lists or is it how memrise handles it?

I like to have things in categories, not much of a fan of the huge word lists. I don't want to be told I'm correct when I am actually wrong depending on what category I am studying.

What do you guys think about it?

I see that some of my word lists are changing. For example, I have a number list for things and I see that my 'one' has changed to 'one (native korean number)'.

Do the mods want me to change the rest of my numbers in that list to fit that convention? Or would it be better just to let them do their thing?

I added a wordlist recently in the name " once upon a time in korea". I remember uploading the spreadsheet with 421 words. But after the List was created, i visited the course and it shows only 388 words. I scrolled down the list and found that the last word in the list and my spreadsheet were the same. Yet i don't know why it shows 388 words. Is it just the number error or are the words missing in my list??

We are in the process of developing a set of "conventions" for how content should be added. These are intended to be a framework which will allow all users to add items to the database in a way that ensures that they are tested effectively by Memrise, and ensures maximally efficient learning.

These conventions are still a work in progress, so please add your thoughts and comments and check out the sample set that Memrise user [RickCarlino](http://www.memrise.com/user/rickcarlino) has made [here](http://www.memrise.com/set/10000324/korean-master-list/), which is an example that follows these conventions.

#Conventions:

When adding verbs or adjectives, add them in their "dictionary" form. Do not conjugate. EX: 가다,오다,짜다...

when adding countable nouns (nouns that require an article in English), make sure you attach the article to it's definition. For example if you were adding an item for the word "낚싯대", the definition should be written as "a fishing rod" and not simply "fishing rod". Other answers that should be accepted as correct (for example "fishing rod) should be added under "alternative English".

English translations of verbs should start with the word "to" and adjectives often start with "to be". EX: To go, To come, To be salty. The other acceptable answers for these words should also be added in the "alternative English" field.

Put Chinese characters for words of Chinese origin into the etymology section.

Try not to make English definitions excessively long as it creates formatting problems.

if you are describing measure words (ex: 개, 장, 송이, etc), start the definition with "A measure word for ___________"

Examples:

복습하다- to review, to prepare one's lesson (復習, academic term)

송이- a measure word for flowers

낙씻대- a fishing rod

짜다- to be salty

Recently, while going through one of the beginner Korean lessons I came across 괜찮다 (괜찮아요) - To be alright.

It's obviously annoying to have to write both the dictionary form and the present tense whenever I get tested on this word, but I don't want to remove it because it has a trickier-than-normal spelling.

What should we do in these cases? Just leave a mem politely complaining, or should we actively try to contact curators to change incorrect/sloppy entries? I don't want to bother busy people who have bigger things on their table.