I’ve decided to start learning Japanese because I’ve had a relationship with that culture for much of my life.

In the last decade I’ve studied Kendo. And I’m travelling to Tokyo at the end of May for the World Kendo Championships.

Eventually, I want to translate/prepare my website for Japanese businesses, and this will mean being able to answer questions from Japanese people.

I started class lessons in my home city (Melbourne) in February and they are going well. I also use a major Japanese language resource on the net.

Neither of these seem to have a useful approach to learning Kanji.

I’m hoping TextFugu will help me learn Kanji. The philosophy espoused in the introduction seems logical to me (I’m a software developer) and I’m really hoping it will be the best approach.

Simply trying to memorise Kanji by their shape doesn’t work for me – I know that!

Have I come to the right place? (Encouragement and confirmation gratefully accepted!)