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Hello people from TextFugu!
How are you ?I just wanted to tell a little of my experience with TextFugu and I’d also would like to know if this method is working for people around here.
Alright; Years ago I went from the free membership to the premium membership, I was really in love with Textfugu, Season 1 and 2 were really awesome, the method was so elegant and easy, I thought that I would learn the Japanese language very quickly, but then I started to realize that it was very repetitive and after Season 5, I started to hate it because the SRS(repetition software) did not work for me, even though I tried every single day, It was really boring and I thought that I wasn’t memorizing or learning things because it was just a bunch of words without a strong foundation behind it; It may work for some people but it didn’t for me, so as time went by, I just left Textfugu.Now I’m learning Japanese from ground zero at Kumon, it is also repetitive but it has many exercises, so I’m feeling a bit better now, nothing is perfect; The downside of this method is that it doesn’t have any conversation at all, you just keep doing loads of exercises step by step (Vocabulary + Grammar + Listening + Writing).
Even now, I don’t feel that I’ve found a perfect method, I don’t know if someone has made a good method for learning the Japanese language, I know it’s not an easy language to learn but the feeling I get is that most people don’t know how to teach it.
This is the third time I’m trying to learn it, the first was at a Japanese Cultural Institute. At this institute, we use to learn with a set of books called “Progressive”, which was also annoying because we “learned” lots of kanji but did not made use of them from time to time, so I forgot everything.How does everyone feel about learning the Japanese language and Textfugu ? Have you already finished Textfugu ? Is the end just as exciting as Season 1 ?
I would like the opinion of people who also never traveled to Japan and is trying to learn the language.Thank you very much!
WesI’m not sure about a perfect method for learning a language. I suppose everyone learns differently, and at a different pace. I’m in season 7, and it seems to be working well for me.
I could imagine that Anki would get tiresome; this isn’t the first time I’ve tried Japanese, or even the first time I’ve tried Textfugu. Last time for me, I got really hung up on the vocab; I burned out, got behind, and gave up.
At the moment, in addition to Textfugu and Anki, I am listening to Japanese stories online for listening comprehension, and I write at least five sentences a day to try and reinforce the vocab. It’s not perfect, and there are still some words that hang me up, but I think I’m doing better this time around.
Can’t say much about the end of Textfugu yet, though. I’m not sure about it getting boring, but you might have a point, I haven’t really paid much attention to that, possibly because I’ve been trying to go kind of slow in order to absorb the material better.
I’m not sure I’d look in only one place for everything, maybe one source will do one thing really well, and another will be able to make up for the first one’s weaknesses, something like that.
I think persistence is the most important thing, though, so don’t give up whatever you do!Hope that helps.
Hey Matthew, you’re right about this.
Everyone learns through a different way and at a different pace.
I’ve tried Textfugu for quite some time but it’s not motivating me at the moment, that’s why I’m trying Kumon.
I think I need a lot of exercises(writing) to learn something and Textfugu wasn’t providing me enough of them, that’s one of the reasons I moved on.
About persistence, it is the most important thing really.Thank you!
WesYeah, Koichi’s not a firm believer in writing excercises. Or writing of any form, it sometimes seems. And to be fair, the fact that pretty much everyone’s using computers for everything these days means you may never need to write Japanese by hand at all. It does kind of ignore the benefit of writing as a memory aid, though…
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