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I just signed up for Textfugu because it seems to have the philosophy I am looking for. I work for a Japanese company and I have learned on and off for years. I finished an OU degree in English Lang & Lit last month so I have more time for Japanese. I was in Tokyo a few weeks back and I really gave it a good shot. I want to build on what I know so I can eventually read Japanese readily and have conversations beyond the basics. I speak other languages but Japanese is much harder than anything else I tried.
Welcome!
How was Tokyo? Where’d you go? Did you take photos? =D
Hi there! You seem to be relatively well-versed! What other languages do you speak? I’m sure EtoEto will be a bigger asset to you since you seem to already have a bit of japanese under your belt. :)
Joel – I was in quite a few places, I made the best of it. I kept a diary on my blog with a few photos.
https://mooncountry.wordpress.com/2015/05/21/japan-diary-7/Alice – Well, I grew up in Ireland so Irish (Gaelic) was my second language and then I had French at school and uni as an elective. I live in Holland so Dutch is my main other language, my wife us Polish so I speak that well enough. I learned Spanish in evening classes and I did a Level 2 module at the OU so that is strong enough. I also lived in Germany before and German is similar to Dutch so I can understand everything but my spoken level is weaker. I did Swedish and Italian courses before but thry are only at a basic enough level.
With Japanese I have a lot of vocab and I recognize and can sound about 300 kanji. However, I have real trouble converting that into real situations. That is why revising the basics from new angles really helps.
I am going through Text Fugu now and there are some nice things I have picked up. I haven’t heard of Eto Eto. What’s it like? Is it at the end of Textfugu?Oh wow that is incredible, so many languages! And EtoEto is another version of textfugu but it covers more material. Its supposed to be like a trilogy of textbooks and textfugu is just the beginner, or first book in the trilogy. If you have the forever membership you should get EtoEto for free as well. Im not sure when its supposed to come out though. Hopefully later this year!
Im definitely going to check out your blog now, haha.Ooo, photos. Love photos. =)
You can find the photos from my trip (way back in 2010) here: https://www.facebook.com/joel.alexander.980/media_set?set=a.10150482872736751.362076.551181750&type=3
Pretty sure you can see them without being my friend, but you do have to be logged in.
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