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I’m also a newbie here. One of the main reasons I paid up for Textfugu was for the promise of updates, which seemed to be plenty as stated on the Tour and Coming Soon pages, like someone mentioned in this thread. Now I see this thread that seems to say that updates are coming in much more slowly tha that (or not at all, I really don’t know what the deal is here since no one’s making it clear for us new guys). Since I’m starting from the beginning I’ll have lots of material to tide me over for a while. But I do admit that this perceived lack of updates is a concern for me now going forward. I know Textfugu isn’t the be-all-to-end-all of Japanese learning resources, but there should be a bit more clarity in what guys like me should expect. If the updates are coming much more slowly than what’s advertised, it’ll probably be best to adjust that.
For the newbies :
Like マーク・ウェーバー said about what Koichi wrote : I try to put out 1-2 lessons and 10-20 kanji per week, plus a few other little things
and like Elenkis said about what Koichi wrote : At the start of this year Koichi said his goal was to finish all the basic content by the end of 2011, which was to be 6 seasons or more (this was before the seasons were split in half). Obviously that goal isn’t even close to being achieved, but stuff happens.The 1-2 lessons per week is more like 2 lessons per months when producing lessons. There has been a lot of re-design and rebuilt of the website and of earlier lesson that took a lot of time. We were even excited about Audio lesson for a while…that didn’t go well.
So yeah things were said and it didn’t get done. On the up side, things are supposed to be REALLY set up for all the content now and the lessons are better than before(v3) for you new people. For people who learned with v1, they are long gone to other learning sources and for people with v2, they went to other sources recently or will soon. I just hope for you guys that there won’t be v4.
yes i definitely hope that v3 is the final v. i’ve been here since day 1 (or more like day 7ish or something) so i paid the ‘cheap’ introductory lifetime rate. i feel like it was money well spent so i’m not that upset about lack of updates. i understand that it takes a lot to write a textbook. and i’m ok with all of the updates too. i mean, after working on it for a while one would start to see what problems there are and what should be different… so you go back and fix things. that’s only natural. I can see wanting to fix things before continuing on so that making the newer lessons would be easier.. Hopefully this new v3 is good enough and the rest can be converted soon and then eventually it can be mostly new content. (fingers crossed..)
i cant say much about his advertising methods. maybe it’s not clear about how many updates there will be, i dunno because i don’t pay attention since i’m lifetime already. i will say that it does *feel* like forever between updates. but that doesn’t mean he’s not working on stuff.. between kanji, anki decks, fixing up old lessons, writing new lessons, practice sheets, tofugu, i imagine he’s pretty busy… i dunno. i guess my opinion is a little mixed. i will also add that i’m a huge slacker and can never stay in the studying groove for very long. so even though i’ve been studying a long time, i’m still only about lower intermediate. :-\’,
=^..^=Once Koichi has finished all the planned “v3″ updates, he’ll put out one new lesson then think “Wait a minute… these Anki decks actually suck! Time to re-do them! :3″ *6 months later* “There! Done! Oh wait, that forum sucks too – time for a new one! :3″ *a few months* “There needs to be a -1th section to each lesson, to ease people into the introduction (section 0)” *a few months* “Yuck, the dashboard sucks. Hashi, grab that colour palette!” *a few weeks* “Let’s make a feature-length Tofugu movie (completely disregarding TofuguTV)! :D” *1 year* “Oh yeah, new content for TextFugu, riiiiiight… Huh? Wait a minute, everyone left! Ah well, Starcraft it is :3″
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@Altaira: Don’t worry – I joined TextFugu last September and his post is Greek to me too ;) Not because I’m terribly bad at Japanese, but just because he is so much more advanced.
My post in this thread ended up in another thread. Curiouser and curiouser!
I don’t think my money was wasted but I do agree that the constant layout-redesigns seem to take up too much time. Maybe someone else can do that while こういちさん focuses on the content :)
oh! I am new here and so far I am loving it! I guess starting out late was good then and the site will probably be updated by the time I get there right? :P
Plus I agree this is hard stuff. It isn’t easy to come up with a coherent language teaching site. Give the guys some credit!
By the way, I believe that at this rate of updates a life time membership makes a lot more sense than the monthly membership.
Oh and why the negativity? From what I understand if you understand basic Japanese then there are other sources that you can utilize right?
oh! I am new here and so far I am loving it! I guess starting out late was good then and the site will probably be updated by the time I get there right? :P
I hope so for you ^^Plus I agree this is hard stuff. It isn’t easy to come up with a coherent language teaching site. Give the guys some credit!
We do, this wasn’t the point.By the way, I believe that at this rate of updates a life time membership makes a lot more sense than the monthly membership.
Yeah since a monthly membership would cost you 20$ for 2 lessons and some kanjis. As for a new member, a way to do it would be to buy 1 monthly membership, copy and paste all textfugu on your computer and you’d have enough for some months of study ( but no audio ), after all that study, you buy another 1 month and you study what was added during the …let’s say, 6 months you were studying. And after that, you are ready/better off going on your own than wait for lessons.Oh and why the negativity? From what I understand if you understand basic Japanese then there are other sources that you can utilize right?
Again, that’s not the reason of the negativity :)
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