Memrise Reviews 

Amazing Learning Platform
Used it for 6 years and have learned 3 languages!

Thank you Memrise!

Memrise is an excellent tool for memorizing specific words and phrases, unlike any other app, where vocabulary constantly slips out of your mind. It has a superior authenticity compared to other programs, especially Duolingo: Memrise's courses have absolutely zero nonsense content, and most vocabulary is followed by a video of real natives saying it, leading to correct pronunciation. Plus, if you discover a gap in one of its official courses, you can usually find a user-created course that fills in that gap. In addition to courses, Memrise makes language learning even more enjoyable by enabling users to watch further authentic videos (though some require a subscription) and testing writing skills with a robot. So the app is useful, enjoyable and doesn't bombard you with email notifications every day, like "Do a lesson today!!" or something like that. (The ads are also not that annoying, IMOH, which goes against Duolingo (and the fact about email notifications)

The only issues:

1. Video & Listening exercises sometimes malfunction: clicking on the video / speaker button doesn't work

2. The Difficult Words can be quite annoying for non-subscribers only. If you accidentally got a word wrong due to a misclick in Speed review, it's automatically marked as Difficult (sometimes it marks it as difficult when you get it right!), but you have to rummage through hundreds or thousands of words to find the one word, and then keep on doing reviews for that Level in order to reach that word and undo the Difficult words. Just curious, because if Difficult Words are a Pro feature then why give the frustrating "half" to non -Pro users.

3. Leads to the final issue: non-Pro subscribers are given the buttons for Pro features, e.g. Difficult words, Learn with Locals. It can be somewhat irritating to have obstacles to your learning path.

I am in the UK and have received an email from Memrise with the subject Line "Happy 11.11". In the the UK 11th November is our Remembrance Day for those who gave their lives for our today, therefore, a day of solemn reflection. Would you send out "Happy 09.11" emails to customers in the States? I thought not. Talk about tone deaf.

Didn't really manage to learn that much after a year of usage. It's decent to learn entry level language skills, but if you want some advanced skills you have to do something more.

Without any prior notification memrise took $100 out of my PayPal account as part of one of those very sneaky methods this company use to fleece people of their money. Surely there should be some warning that the payment is upcoming and more importantly when signing up for this app it should be clearly stated that this company plans to fleece your bank account every year thereafter. I haven't used the app since the first few months and they know that's the case with many people and prey on customers. Very unethical behaviour memrise

Several times in the past week, Memrise has used slang american terms i do not know and local expressions which my partner ( native speaker with a doctorate in Law from Beijing) cannot understand.
several expressions used were sarcastic and thus could lead to offense. Others were coarse expressions a learner should avoid.

excellent program. i am using a few app. for learning German and memorise is the best by far.

Spanish on Memrise is brilliant. I've also tried Busuu and Duolingo but I like Memrise the best, as I am learning lots. Reviews about payments are nothing to do with the actual learning, so it's 5 stars from me!

They are thieves. I cancelled my subscription a year ago to find a year later they stole money from my account. I now have to freeze my account and report their transaction as fraudulent. They do not have a phone number and make it very difficult to get in touch with them.

Memrise has changed their interface several times for the worse, violating the terms of when a person subscribed. For example, they eliminated the Mems (user created graphics to memorize words). This was a basic fundamental feature of their app!

The management has been very incompetent at providing an interface that has features users like. Just the opposite, in fact.

In recent years their main motivation is to monetize their lousy lessons and try to sideline the user created lessons.

Totally disgusting organization.

This was an ok if limited course of French phrases. I was minded to keep the subscription going even though I’ve finished the course but not now.

Why?

Because they’ve decided to use language lessons to push the Covid myth at a time when even the most enthusiastic street-clapper realises the whole thing was a big tech (Google demonetising media sites and Amazon removing them from servers if they don’t follow the narrative) big pharma (how many jabs do you need before you realise this is in no way anyone’s previous definition of a vaccine?) operation in control and profit.

Don’t believe me? Look at the profits big tech/pharma have made. Think you’re not brainwashed? See if you can resist parroting the responses to Covid skeptics that are simply figures given to you by these corporations via health services and Google searches (eg: “Oh but I didn’t end up in hospital or die because of the vaccine.”) Neither did 99.9% of people with Covid before any vaccine and many people turning up at hospital demanding oxygen did so because a device they bought off a pharmaceutical, probably via Amazon, told them they were suffocating.

And now we come to Memrise…

These people are actually dangling a grand in front of you (chance of winning? Infinitesimal!) if you mindlessly repeat in a foreign language all the mantras of the Church Of Covid like “I’m keeping others safe” and “Where’s the hand sanitiser?” and not forgetting the most insidious “Here’s my vaccination certificate” (In other words: “I’m not an unclean leper who needs to be forcibly removed from society.”).

Here’s a useful phrase you taught me.

J’ai arrêté ces cours

A 5 year old could write better translations for their Spanish 1 course. Absolutely embarrassing content, get a grip.

The app itself seems to be great. I like the way IT works.

HOWEVER, their customer support sucks.
I paid for the Valentine's Day deal (buy one, get one to share) on the 11th, four days ago. They were supposed to send a code that I could forward to my partner, so she could upgrade her account. The email never came. It's not in my spam folder, or any other folder.

I sent in a ticket through their online form. I got an auto response to tell me to check my spam/other folders. I did, again. Nothing there. Then I replied back to them, as they instructed me to do in the email. I included my partner's account name and email. Still nothing.

I even attempted to post something on their community forum. But in order to log into it, you have to confirm your email. Nothing came to my email box, in any folder. So now, I'm here, complaining.

I don't really want to cancel my subscription (not even sure that would work), because I like the app itself. There isn't a better option out there for European Portuguese. I see that they have responded here to some people. Maybe they'll actually monitor this forum. I ain't holding my breath. But if they DO RESPOND, DO NOT tell me to check my damned spam folder again.

unhappy customer, Steve Bivans

Too many bugs and on some courses simply blocks you moving forward because of bugs

I cancelled my Memrise subscription on the 28th August 2021 as per their cancellation guidelines below as I had subscribed via Google play.

''If you subscribed via Google Play, you can also follow these instructions to cancel your subscription.''

Money was taken off my PayPal account by Memrise on the 10th of October 2021. This should not have been taken as my Memrise subscription had been cancelled. My account has been inactive since August. I'm no longer subscribed to Memrise.

We have got in touch with Paypal and they say we need to get the refund from Memrise.

Please issue a full refund.

Amazing, good for languages but if you go on user-generated courses you can learn pretty much anything
including Languages, Geography, History, Math, etc. not to mention that there are 100+ languages available in the languages section (user-generated) for speakers of So many languages. And the best thing is that it's FREE. But I'm having a minor problem: the geography courses I've got in the pc version are not showing in the mobile one, why?

This company will not stop charging my card. I have requested to have them stop multiple times. They do not have a phone number and only email automated responses. Buyer beware this is a fraudulent company.

Great! Enjoy using the website.

memorise was very helpful at first then realised how strange it was
Disclaimer: this is a sort of weak review just saying

I'm learning Korean and I've gotten really far I'm at the last level which is level 8. until I realised that I was learning hangul this isn't the main issue my main problem is that they didn't tell my
like you guys could've like told me that this was the written form because I started speaking Korean and they were confused saying you're not supposed to speak hangul you're supposed to write hangul they told me that I should speak jujukkda so mesmerise my criticism is tell me the doo-doo you're teaching me and teach me more practical words like your only telling me pre-made sentences, (eg: I think your daughter is in the mafia WHEN WOULD I EVER USE THAT!!!) tell me the words in the sentence like I know how to say "how are you," but you won't tell me what the word "how" is, so can your supplementary exercises be more.... supplementary