Gregg Simplified Memrise Decks “Courses”

Memrise is in the process of separating user created courses from Memrise-staff created language learning courses.  Memrise has implemented a second platform called Decks for the user created courses.  I like the name because what have been called courses in Memrise are sets of electronic flash cards and the new name implies decks of cards.  Memrise is working on creating a Decks application for cell phones–at present Decks is set up for use on computers (although the web browser on a smart phone does allow one to use it on a cell phone).  I have completed the creation of two decks of electronic flash cards for Gregg Simplified.  There is one for the 181 brief forms plus 28 special forms.  It is at

https://decks.memrise.com/course/5412358/gregg-shorthand-simplified-brief-special-forms/

The other one consists of 520 outlines I have gotten wrong in transcribing the longhand transcriptions of passages in the Simplified manual back into shorthand.  I was going to stop at 500 outlines but at that point I had 50 levels having 10 outlines each and given that there are 52 cards in a deck of playing cards I decided it would take 52 levels to make a full deck.  That course is at

https://decks.memrise.com/course/2200810/gregg-shorthand-simplified/

I am finding these decks of electronic flash cards useful.  I hope somebody else does too!


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  1. This is very good.

    One thing I would suggest is to compile a running list of new outlines from the book and create decks for each lesson. Sadly, the manual does not have an index of shorthand outlines in the back, and the decks would be very beneficial to those learning Simplified.

  2. Though I'm not a fan of flash cards in general (maybe due to horrible experiences with arithmetic flash cards when I was a kid), I find that I like your Memrise set. I need to point out, though, that your outline for "drove", in the very first set, is wrong. It says "drobe". With a little editing and tweaking, I can see these being very useful to beginners.

  3. Thanks, Larry.  I was hoping to get a correction or two and I appreciate your taking the time to tell me about the error you noticed.  I replaced the outline for drove.

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