Early last Friday morning, one of our users -a girl named Kristin- made good use of the feedback box to detail something she felt would help her learn SAT words better. The message read: “please include, along with the definition, a phonetic spelling of the word so I know how it is said. I know...

Hello! I’m Katrina and I’m in charge of researching the etymologies of English words here at Memrise. Etymologies are the histories of words: the stories of where they come from, and how they came to mean what they now do. Etymologies are a great tool for learning words, because they have intrinsic value and the...

Mems are little ways of remembering things. You’ll already know and use lots of them, without perhaps being aware of the fact: I’m talking about little phrases like “30 days has September, April, June and November”. Mems, I should of course note, are also known as mnemonics. Excellently, the word ‘mnemonic’ is so difficult to remember...

After what professors, students, and community members declared, the “best talk ever given on [Princeton] campus”, “interactive, entertaining, and intellectual,” “fascinating,” and “humorous,” Ed is taking his unique and powerful lecture to the heart of New York. We encourage all followers of Memrise, students, and people with a genuine desire to learn to join us...

Japanese is hard. Really hard. To those of us versed only in the Romance languages, the linguistic strings of any Asian language could just as easily be barks and purrs from some foreign animal. But despite their complete lack of commonality with languages like English, Spanish, or French, Japanese words still sound like something. Mems (Memrise’s...