Hi Koichi, hope you read this post eheh :)
First of all congratulation for the excelent work you put on Textfugu,my post want not to be a critique or something to your work,just an honest “report” of my personal point of view,about how I feel Textfugu,so I hope it somehow help to improve it :)

I am now on Season 6, I know more than 1000 vocabs & 150-200 kanjis, I am learning 15 new words each day (that will go onto the SRS) & I actually already know some grammar point that I didn’t studied here,because when I study new words I also read at least 1 example sentence that uses it,so if I found some new grammar point,I need to check it up to grasp the meaning of the whole thing.

Textfugu is excellent in doing what it does,but the more I learn,the more I found hard to use it!

I know this last phrase sound strange,so it require some explanation.
You see,it is simply perfect the way you approach the japanese teaching on the first seasons,you are there to hold the beginners hands & you hold back a lot of knowledges just to prevent to the tiny begginner to run away scared & overwhelmed from the 日本語 “monster”,with all his “scary” kanjis & “arcane” grammar points.
In this way,you allowed me to hold on & stick with it long enough to don’t be afraid anymore & to make the japanese study a daily routine. I mean,at the point where I am, with more than 1000 words on my back & the ability to start to understand a lot of sentences,even if I am still a begginner,I will never be discouraged again thinking of “how hard” would be to learn it & I’ll never go back,since I have already achieved so much…though, probably is only 1/10 – 1/20 of what I need to reach my “Ok Plateau” & play japanese games without a dictionary,yet I am proud of it & after this effort,anyone would have make up their own mind about sticking with it till the end of the journey no matter what.

That beign said,the problem is that I am on Season 6, & I still feel as you where keeping my hand in the study of this language…actually to be honest,feels a bit kind of if I where too dumb to hold the knowledge in my hand,thus it had to be processed & explained in an easy way by you ^_^’
& this totally doesn’t work well for me,because I passed the stage where that particular kind of guidance was required,now it’s time to walk with my own legs, right?
Of course,this could be my own personal feeling about Textfugu & could be that noone else share this vision,or maybe I have advanced too much in vocab/grammar outside the site so that I shouldn’t be on Season 6 but on an hypothetical season 11,so is my fault to have leved textfugu behind a bit during my study (I use lot of different resources ^_^’)

But I would like to remind you of a video speech you linked on the site,where the guys explained the OK Plateau & why some people keep improving & some other stop improving,even doing something for lots of hours.

Bottom line is that I have this burning feeling that in order to improve more you have to show the ones who are ready, the hard study way (so not only keeping our hands a bit less,but also,for example, using some more difficult vocabs in the example sentences,not the usual taberu,nomu,miru,kuru,iku wich appears at least in the 70% – 80% of the example sentences ^_^’) & belive in the fact that we can easily handle it without beign discouraged as in the beggining.

Again,keep the good work up,I hopes that my feelings about the site will help in some way or another ;)

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That was for Koichi guys,this next question is for you all:
how do you feel about what I said? I am the only one with that particular vision or you can relate somehow?
Let me know :)

• This topic was modified 11 years, 5 months ago by  Marco Nioi.