My name’s Gahl, and I just bought myself the textfugu membership as a sort of self birthday-gift/investment. Up until now I’ve been learning via Rosetta Stone since August (got it free from my Dad a couple years back when he bought it to prep for a work sabbatical he was spending at the University of Hiroshima)– I’m currently right in the middle of level 2, and I wanted a more systematic approach to learning verb conjugation than immersion, and specifically a radical-based approach to learning kanji (once I saw the kanji for tree and forest [木 森], I was like, “clearly there’s a smarter way then just memorizing whatever I happen to run into”).

I’m a former aikido and judo practitioner, I dig anime, and I really dig Polysics/Cornelius/Tokyo Monaurail, so I guess I would qualify as a sort of general japanophile. This year, I’m applying for JET, because I’m already an English teacher and a polyglot (Japanese is my 5th language, 4th writing system), so it’s kind of a bucket list thing to both live in Japan and learn what seems like the Everest of foreign written languages for an English speaker. I might try the teamspeak thing later, if I can figure out how that works.
初めまして,
-g.