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Been a lifetime member since not long after Textfugu first came into being. Am interested in getting access to EtoEto (today is the first I’ve heard of it).
Ah well. I guess things will become more clear with time… Or maybe not. Koishi last posted in 2013. Kind of strange to me. Must be something I’m missing here. I mean I knew TextFugu started getting neglected when WaniKanji came out, but that seems pretty extreme. o.o
Now 1650 of 2200 Kanji through RtK (writing each time I review). Absolutely glad I’m doing it, would recommend it to anyone.
And… that’s all I got. xD
I don’t know what they were thinking. This program essentially makes extremely simple things incredibly confusing. I just want to get down and dirty with SRS. The program is too assuming, and seems to “know” what the user wants more than the user, to the point of driving the user up a tree.
I miss 1.2.8… but I’ve already screwed up my decks on there, being so assured I would love 2.0 and wouldn’t need to look back. Whoops.
I took Japanese 101 at my uni. and found great benefit from it. If it was like mine, having a foundation from self-study will benefit you greatly, since some teachers in language courses have a tendency to move fairly quickly through the material. I knew kana before ever entering the classroom and, since most quizzes involved writing those characters, I felt a bit like a cheat (not really ;P). There was certainly vocabulary building. Many grammar concepts became more clarified than anything I could have understood on a book and computer screen, or at least quickened the process of comprehension considerably. In a stupid twist of happenstance graduating actually prevented me from taking JP 102 directly after, and to this day I’m still planning on taking the course in the future.
Anyway have fun and hope you enjoy the course. :)
@ winterpromise Oh, hey, it’s good to see you around again. :) I can relate, actually, given that I’ve just dived into the the second half of RtK (1100+) and can see the insane amount of time it can sap if allowed. Reviewing earlier Kanji and adding new Kanji can take as little as an hour, or as much as an entire day, and I’m here hoping that’s just the nature of the beast for the first few months. On the plus side I can say Kanji seems less intimidating on the whole, easier to process relating to vocabulary, and easier to process in authentic Japanese material (before my eyes would scan over a mess of Kanji as seemingly random strokes and not even try to comprehend how it’s structured). Still, there’s already been a few instances where I nearly quit/allowed myself to forget large amounts of the Kanji requiring immediate re-learning.
Anyway it’s nice to see I’m not alone in JP learning struggles, having sadly quit/restarted efforts twice now. ^o^ Best of luck to you!
<- from same place.
Welcome. :]
Louisville, Kentucky (USA). Hi Marie who posted about two months back. xD
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Chigun.
Strangely, “Motteke! Sailor Fuku!” became my favorite song of all time… Unrelated to the anime its attached to (though Lucky Star is decent). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieQ1rAIjzXc
It’s not indicative of the music I usually listen to, which makes it more strange. xD
Studying continues, though I have little to show for it, I guess. Cramming in 2000 facts of anything is insanity but fun to try. xD Also: spilled coffee on recent JP notes. >.< Whoopsie.
@kanjiman8 Nice. :P I recall a difficulty I had going through TF was balancing the grammar learning and then pausing for ungodly amounts of time to cram in vocabulary, then returning to find the grammar points half forgotten. Nevertheless it's all super beneficial in the end. :3
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I sort of jumped back into JP learning. I’m now through 1166 of 2200 RtK and am beating myself up that I didn’t do this immediately after hiragana/katakana. My mind feels open to Japanese unlike ever before. I look forward to completing this and being immersed in “real” Japanese from then on. Regardless of the diverse opinions of Heisig’s track, once it’s done it’s done. Then the chips can fall where they will.
Meanwhile, I am lagging behind with the more complicated grammar aspects of the language and must allow time to dig into this with redoubled efforts. I suppose I’ve continuously allowed rote memorization of vocabulary take precedence over getting down and dirty with grammar. In this regard I want to go through Textfugu (holding out for ver. 3 at just this moment, I suppose), Tae Kim and some books I’ve been neglecting, while taking copious notes.
So I’ll try posting more often. xD Best luck to all of us.
The meat of the complaint seems to be the default of the new lesson per week or two statement, and that receiving access to this new e-book would be aqueduct recompense for the sluggish pace of Textfugu. I have utmost respect for Koichi and have had a very positive experience with all things related to this place, but I feel the grumblings here have validity. I joined TF about 1.8 years ago now and, if you use the old season layout (1-2 = 1, 3-4 = 2, 5-6 = 3 and 7 = season 4) there is few “new” lessons, only a lot of remade ones. There is some injustice in that statement given the vast improvement to the Kanji aspect of this place, headway made in season 3 lessons and a few new lessons injected into earlier parts of the curriculum, but overall one must wonder why a new resource is being developed when we’re more or less stagnant in place here at TF.
So basically I just said what has already been said. :P Not interested in getting into a debate over it, and I don’t actually believe we “deserve” free access to the e-book. It’s more of a chin scratching moment of why Tofugu has gotten into the business Textfugu was designed specifically to tackle. Just sayin’.
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I like Anki better than the previously used Smart.fm. This said, I infinitely prefer making real life flashcards that I can carry around, even if it takes multiple hours to make all the cards I need.
I’m making some cards today in fact. にゃあ～！
I am also 23 and from Kentucky. o.o
But, yeah, welcome! Going to Japan would be pretty sweet.
Welcome ^_____________________^
*Sigh* I wonder how many people backslide like I do? Kind of wasted all of this month when I could have made some great progress on Japanese. I guess it was a second burnout. The good news is that it’s only been a month, whereas last time I let study drop for significantly longer. Now it’s time to get back to business and find out the horrifying truth of just how much I learned actually made it to my long-term memory, and what must be wrestled with for days all over again.
In any case I *should* be at the adjective lessons in season 2 and studying 4-stroke Kanji. Obviously won’t be there right away. I want to start RTK eventually as well.
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