Memrise removed its community courses. If you're looking for a real alternative to learn a language with native teachers, live, in 100+ languages, Targumi is the answer.
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Memrise was long a reference for language learners thanks to its community courses created by volunteer native speakers. But since 2025, Memrise has shut down these courses, leaving thousands of learners without a solution, especially for African, Asian, and uncommon languages. Beyond this closure, Memrise fundamentally remains a vocabulary memorisation app: it offers no native teachers, no live classes, no real-time oral correction. Targumi takes a radically different approach: live video classes with certified native teachers, in small groups of 2 to 5 students, in over 100 languages. If you truly want to speak a language, not just memorise words, here is the full comparison.
Memrise has you memorise vocabulary through flashcards and spaced repetition. It's useful for vocabulary, but not enough to actually speak. At Targumi, you have a certified native teacher who hears you, corrects your pronunciation, answers your questions, and adapts the class to your real progress. The difference between learning alone with an app and learning guided by a human is massive.
Memrise removed its community courses in 2025, leaving learners of Swahili, Wolof, Hausa, Khmer, Tigrinya, and dozens of other languages without a solution. Targumi offers 100+ languages with real native teachers, including all these African, Asian, and uncommon languages not available anywhere else in live classes.
The Memrise method is designed for memorising words. You can spend 3 months on Memrise and be unable to hold a 2-minute conversation. At Targumi, from the very first live class, you speak with your teacher and classmates in small groups. Speaking skills are learned by speaking, not by repeating lists.
Learning doesn't stop at the end of the class. Each Targumi group has an active WhatsApp group per language: you practise with your classmates, ask questions, and share cultural resources. This continuity between classes is what truly drives progress.
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