Are you looking to learn a new language, or to brush up your skills on a language you are studying? If so, Memrise offers online learning opportunities that may be of interest. Memrise offers courses in numerous languages, including Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and American Sign Language. The team behind Memrise designed these courses to center on elaborate encoding, a strategy that places new words in a context that may remind language learners of similar words in their native language. (For example, "aburrido," the Spanish word for "bored," is presented to English language speakers in the sentence, "It is boring to eat a burrito everyday.") While most courses center on language (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, take note: the site includes a course on common words on the TOEFL exam), Memrise also includes a few courses on other topics. To access these courses, users must first create a free account. Memrise is also available as an iOS or Android application. Some features are only available with the premium version.
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