![]() ![]() There are a lot of “ifs”, even in the best case. Then if the course finally goes “live,” there would be many user reports needing attention and correction, enough to keep a whole team quite busy. Then there would have to be a great deal of picky work in the Incubator to make sure each sentence is as perfect as we could make it, with acceptable alternatives also distinguished. Someday, in the best-case scenario, if I am asked to be one contributor to an official Latin course, I would have to confer with other team members to decide which sentences to keep. I prefer to focus on writing new content to teach the new concepts. I did add some variations for some of the sentences Robert noted, but it would be impossible to add every possible one. It’s just one of the weaknesses of Memrise, but there are many strengths to make up for it. I know it can be frustrating to be marked “wrong” for an answer that a human teacher would accept. Thank you for your kind words, and also your hard work transferring all my sentences to the Memrise course! It is precisely because of the vast number of acceptable variations that I didn’t want to take that task on. Hungarian! I had a high school classmate from Hungary, who taught me the only two words I know: szerbus, and Istvan (my middle name, Steven). I may give up on this course-too many distractions. I had six years of it in high school and college, including just enough for a major, which we called a “bastard major”. Sometimes it gives two English words for one Latin, or one English for two Latin, and always insists on the two in the original given order. It gives “bibo” as “drink”, but that’s really “I drink”, a verb, but no indication of that. The course gives “uva” as “grapes”, which is actually “uvae” (plural). It gives “duis te” as Latin for “You’re welcome” but I have never seen that anywhere. I started a topic for the course since I couldn’t find one for messages. It seems to be the “Complete DuoLingo Vocabulary: Latin” that has the issues I mentioned. And secondly, I’m not a Latin teacher, and all my knowledge of the language comes from this very course, so I’m not confident enough to decide if a sentence in a specific word order actually is correct and means the same as the original phrase, and I wouldn’t want to “teach” others wrong sentences.Īt the time being, all this course can do is just provide an opportunity to memorize and practice the example sentences CarpeLanam presents in her weekly Latin lessons on the Duolingo forum, and other than copying those examples to this Memrise course, all I do is add the SOV word order as a “safe bet” alternative answer to every entry, to make the experience just a tiny bit less frustrating for all who want to practice Latin in a “duolingo-esque” way until a real Duolingo course gets developed by a group of experts. ![]() Firstly, there are over 2000 sentences already in the course, and adding every possible correct translation would be an immense amount of work for one person, even if it’s just the word order that varies. Typically, I read course forum for reviews and use for grade data.I’m sorry but unfortunately I can’t do that. Vagrades is much better in those regards. It is also much harder to tell trends in grade data, like differences between professors, or if a professor has changed how they grade. A lot of more recent semesters are missing from course forum. McIntire recommends that you don’t take more than two quantitative prereqs in any one semester–econ and stats are both quantitative–so you could probably do those two together, but I definitely wouldn’t take either with chem.Īlso, use for grade data, not course forum. I would start with the courses for precomm, because you have to apply to McIntire before you have to apply to med school. I think trying to do both at the same time would probably prevent you from doing either. The weed-outs for premed and comm school also don’t overlap. Each requires a high number of difficult weed-out courses with very low average GPAs (ECON 2010, STAT 2120, and CHEM 1410 all meet this definition), and you need a high GPA to get into med school and the comm school. It is difficult to do both premed and precomm. Try to find out as much information as you can about both McIntire and med school, and then choose one–there are options for change if you decide you made the wrong choice (you can always take the science courses and apply to med school, and there is always the MS in commerce). ![]()
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