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I am fairly new to text fugu and was wondering just how fluent you would be in Japanese after completing all of textfugu, (not at all, conversational,native? ect..). Also how long would it (or did it) take you to complete textfugu. Hopefully you guys can answer some of these questions, thanks!
I haven’t finished but I’ve hung around here long enough to know that it will qualify you to call yourself a beginner. Unless you get a lot of speaking practice outside of TF you won’t be conversational. Unless your conversations are incredibly basic and short, I guess.
Basically you’ll get a foundation in Japanese which will make learning from elsewhere easier. You’ll learn very basic grammar, kana, and you’ll get started on learning kanji. Oh and vocab, there’s that.
After TF most people seem to go for Genki, from what I can see.
Personally, I like the way it’s presented. It’s written kind of comedically, and that appeals to me. And there’s the super sassy community!!
I haz a blog http://maninjapanchannel.wordpress.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLQzB-1u-dgI’m almost through TF. I would call myself an upper beginner. After TF I’ll continue with Tae Kim (guidetojapanese.org) which I think will get me to an upper intermediate level. Tae Kim is free and very extensive.
You can think of the TF way as the easier but slower way to learn Japanese.I’m still in Season 3 but looking ahead I would have to agree with everyone else; TF will give you a great basis in Japanese and would probably be considered A2/B1 level on the CEF. If you were going to Japan I think you’d do fine for basic conversations and getting your point across (with the help of charades and pictures when needed.) I say this as someone who speaks another foreign language, Korean, at a A2/B1 level and has been able to get around the country (city and rural) as a tourist pretty well.
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