A fun way to learn?

 So talking to a co-worker he helped me stumble upon a website called memrise.com, it is much like quizlet.com (I highly recommend this for any high school or college student with tests coming up) where you can pick a language (or any subject really) and basically you are trying to learn to recognize the words and their definition/English meaning. You can create your own set or go off the ones others have created. Nice, unfortunately this website is still new enough that it does not have a corresponding app yet.

Here is the little gimmick, your words are seeds and you are planting them in the garden of your mind. Memrise.com will send you e-mails to remind you that

a) Your short term memory words are ready to "harvest" or move to the long term memory garden.

b) Your long term flowers need to be watered to keep them in your long term memory.

PROS:

• It is kinda fun, at least for me, the idea that these words are seeds and I'm making a garden of words in my brain. What can I say I'm all about the cute factor. 
• You can create your own set and they currently have tons of different language sets to chose from.
• It is free, that is a huge pro because not everyone can shell out $500 for Rosetta Stone (and you shouldn't)

CONS:

• While you can use other people's sets, you are reliant on how they spelled things, if you are learning a language with a different alphabet besides the roman one you could be screwed. I have run into this problem a couple times. You are also reliant on them for what the word means, and they can be wrong. You can suggest a change, but it is up to them to change it. 
• Currently as of 6/18/2012 the site is down for maintenance very often making it difficult to maintain your garden.
• The quizzes on the words are timed, which can be very frustrating when you are typing in a foreign alphabet on a English keyboard, it can be utter fail.

 Overall:

  This is a great site, although it seems to be in their fledgling stages, if you want to build and maintain your vocabulary this is a great place to go. I have yet to see anything about sentence structure or grammar as of yet so for people who want to learn  a language you are going to need supplemental material.