I’ve been thinking about doing one of these for awhile now, as I’ve seen a few of these crop up in the past few months where different users post, asking the same questions, due to errors that exist in the TextFugu text.

So here’s the drill, if you post the following:

Where the error is – Season, Chapter, Page (or just link the url)

What the error is

What the correction is

I will add it to this post in the order that it occurs in TextFugu.

When you are giving corrections, if the original Japanese sentence in TextFugu puts spaces between the words and particles, please do the same in your corrections, as this will be easier for beginners to understand.

You can also use this thread to ask about any errors, even if you don’t know the corrections.

That way someone else can come by, give the correction, and I can add it. ^_^

The errors will be listed in the order that they appear within TF, for easy access. So each times you start a new season, it may be a good idea to back here and check if there are any listed for your season.

Each new error begins with Location in bold.

Errors:

Location: Season 3, Chapter 2, Page 3

The text shows the following:

With the following explanation further down:

“To” isn’t used that much, since ト (と) is basically the same sound, sames goes with “Do.”

So according to the text:

ト (と) sounds the same as トゥ

and

ド (ど) sounds the same as ドゥ

This is not correct.

ト (と) sounds like ‘toe’ in English

ド (ど) sounds like ‘doe’ in English

トゥ sounds like ‘to’ in English (As in: You have things ‘to’ do.)

ドゥ sounds like ‘do’ in English (As in: You have things to ‘do’.)

If you listen to the pronunciations of these characters in the Anki deck, they are the correct pronunciation. As Koichi is the one pronouncing them, I find this error to be rather odd. But there it is. ^_^

Further explanations can be found here: Katakana Help

 

Location: Season 5

Somewhere during Season 5, there should be something telling you to add the Ultimate Vocab Deck 3 to Anki. This apparently doesn’t happen anywhere in the text, so you end up adding Deck 2, then Deck 4.

Deck 3 can be found here:

http://www.textfugu.com/downloads/anki/vocab/ultimatevocab3.zip

 

Location: Season 5, Chapter 11, Page 4

Given Japanese:

すし　を　たべない　つもりです。

Given Translation:

I do not plan to eat sushi.

Correct translation for given Japanese (すし　を　たべない　つもりです):

I plan not to eat sushi.

Correct Japanese for given translation (I do not plan to eat sushi):

すし を 食べる つもりはない。

 

Location: Kanji 8-2, 場

This one is a bit bizarre. I believe it is due to a change in versions, where a radical was either previously taught and then removed (but Koichi didn’t realize it was still used in this Kanji), or it was supposed to be introduced for this Kanji and never was.

If you’ve made it this far in TF, you know that looks like the grave and ground radicals that are being used. There is actually a gravity radical that exits, which is different from the ground radical, which you can find at WaniKani (Koichi’s Kanji Site). It looks like this: 易

So the current text states the following:

場 (Meaning: Location) is composed of the radicals 土(grave) and 一(gravity).

This is how it should be:

場 (Meaning: Location) is composed of the radicals 土(grave) and 易(gravity).

Here is the info for the radical gravity:

The sun has a wing on it. That wing symbolizes the sun spinning around, pulling the planets in. That’s the gravity of the sun, so remember this radical as “gravity”.

Gravity is used in the following Kanji:

場 Location

湯 Hot Water

陽 Sunshine

易 Easy

傷 Wound

揚 Hoist

Note: All of these Kanji are on the WaniKani site. I don’t know which, if any, are included in TF.

 

Location: TextFugu

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