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Did I got the title right? Well I do hope so.
Hello everyone! My name’s Ton. Now, how would I spell that in katakana…? Here goes! トン
Yeah! That’s about correct, I guess. Well, I don’t know actually, I’ve only recently finished season 1, which didn’t go into katakana except for the usage of it. Oh well.Moving on, why have I started learning Japanese? Well, because of anime! I barely even watch anything on TV anymore, nor movies, but anime’s always entertaining to watch! Well, anime actually didn’t push me over to learn Japanese, because the English subtitles were fine, but later on I started to divulge myself better into the Japanese culture and found it quite interesting. I am heavily considering a career in Japan, that’s the primary reason I’m learning Japanese, but I still have a long way to go.
I’ve always hooked off different “learn Japanese” online websites, but TextFugu had this “determination build-up” phase at the beginning which really gave me motivation to keep learning, and it really works! In fact, I am really enjoying it! Preparing for the first chapter of season 2 tomorrow!
Oh yeah, I also have some questions, sorry to be a burden!
- I want to use WaniKani with TextFugu. Seeing as they’re both of the same author, how would I seamlessly integrate WaniKani into the “Kanji Lessons” of TextFugu?
- Does the TextFugu community have some sort of Skype group? I think the TeamSpeak’s dead, from what I’ve read.
- When you finished all TextFugu chapters, what would be the next step?
- As an addition to the prior question, what comparable JLPT level would you be when you’ve finished all TextFugu chapters?
That’s about it, thanks for answering my questions, and great meeting you all!
AnonymousOh yeah! I started learning Japanese due to anime too. It is like half of my life…
Yes I would start Wanikani now and forget about Textfugu kanji if I were you. Wanikani has a better system and has like 30X the kanji.
If you finish Textfugu, you could try looking for other online resources. Take a look at this topic: http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/japanese-learning-resources/
Others may disagree with me, but to be honest, once you finish Textfugu you’ll still be at N5. LOL
And I wouldn’t have corrected you, but since you asked, it’s actually こんにちは. Some like to write it as こんにちわ though.
Welcome to TextFugu!
Answers:
1) Depends, what do you mean by seamlessly?
2) No, no Skype group and yeah the Teamspeak is dead, it apparently wasn’t very good when it was up anyway, I never joined it. You’d be better off looking at the WaniKani forum for something like that.
3) Once you have completed TextFugu, continue with WaniKani.
Continue grammar here: http://www.imabi.net/
Continue vocab with: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1102215805
Practice Japanese writing by creating posts on: http://lang-8.com/
Practice Japanese listening and speaking on Skype through people you meet on: http://lang-8.com/
4) As for the JLPT, there really is no equivalency with TextFugu as TextFugu is specifically designed to teach Japanese differently from other standard methods, which means it just doesn’t line up correctly. So according to a few of the members that have come through here, if you only did TextFugu, you’d probably only be able to pass level 5. But you would have also learned things from higher levels, just not enough that would allow you to pass them without supplemental training from other things.
Check out this thread for some tips on organizing Anki 2 with the early chapters of TextFugu:
http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/anki-2-guide-for-the-ocded
You can also use the following thread to track your progress and share your ideas/concerns when you finish a season (gain a level ^_^):
http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/textfugu-season-completions-for-great-motivation-of-heart
がんばって！
Alright, thanks for all the help! I’ll see what I can do!
@Aikibujin
I meant like completely skip the kanji lessons on TextFugu and do things on WaniKani, or blend it together? Would the whole curriculum be messed up when I use WaniKani solely and completely skip TextFugu’s kanji lessons?Well I actually started TextFugu last year and nearly made it to season 4 (I have had a lot of different Japanese training during the nine years prior to that, but it’s been very sporadic). I wasn’t doing WaniKani at the time and was learning the Kanji in TextFugu through Anki as it suggests. I then had a lot of life things that happened that once again interrupted my studies for quite a few months.
Since I was only up to Season 4 last time I decided to start from the beginning again, knowing it wouldn’t take as much time to get back where I was. This time however, I started WaniKani as well. Previously I hadn’t realized that WaniKani was done by Tofugu, so even though I saw a lot of people talking about it, I thought it was a separate system, so I only wanted to focus on one at a time. When I came back, I read a post that said it was designed by Koichi and was a lot better than the content on TextFugu, so I gave it a try, and they were right.
So this time I skipped all the Kanji and Radical decks that were presented in TextFugu and just learned Kanji through WaniKani as it is a much better system.
That said I have now partially changed my mind on it. I’ve found that with WaniKani I’m having a lot of problems remembering Kanji at the Enlightened level, so I’m thinking I need to be doing more reviewing early on before I allow such large gaps without review. As SRS is really effective, but it generally doesn’t take into consideration that different people learn and remember things at different rates. So it really works well for most people, but others (like me I believe) need a little more, where as some others could do well with even less reviews (or more time in between).
So since I have now gotten farther in WaniKani than I have TextFugu (been putting more time into WK as it’s more enjoyable), I’m starting to go back and add the early Kanji and Kanji Vocab decks from TF to Anki. I’ll keep doing this until I catch up, but I’m going to make sure I only add things that I have reviewed first on WK.
That said, the Kanji are presented in a completely different order, but from what I have seen, most of the Kanji on TF are within the first 10 levels of WK. So if I have a few Kanji that pop up in Anki that I haven’t covered in WK, I’ll still do them, but I won’t try very hard to commit them to memory.
I’ve also decided to go ahead and add all of the TF Radicals to Anki, as they are fairly easy to remember and it will speed up my lessons when they pop up in WK.
TL;DR Version:
Started WK, skipped TF Kanji and Kanji Vocab.
Decided I needed more Kanji practice than WK gave.
Added TF Kanji back in, but only ones lower than my WK level.
Added all TF Radicals like a BOSS! ^_^
Ah, I see. That’s exactly what I will keep in mind then. Thanks a lot!
Well I actually started TextFugu last year and nearly made it to season 4 (I have had a
lot of different Japanese training during the nine years prior to that, but it’s been very sporadic). I wasn’t doing WaniKani at the time and was learning the Kanji in TextFugu through Anki as it suggests. I then had a lot of life things that happened that once again interrupted my studies for quite a few months.Since I was only up to Season 4 last time I decided to start from the beginning again, knowing it wouldn’t take as much time to get back where I was. This time however, I started WaniKani as well. Previously I hadn’t realized that WaniKani was done by Tofugu, so even though I saw a lot of people talking about it, I thought it was a separate system, so I only wanted to focus on one at a time. When I came back, I read a post that said it was designed by Koichi and was a lot better than the content on TextFugu, so I gave it a try, and they were right…….
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