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Hey guys, just to let you know I’m ok and doing WaniKani again since february or march. Can’t really dedicate time to textfugu these days but it’s on my mind.
My will to learn japanese as been strenghten by the actual planning of a trip to Japan (in about 2 year) and since I want to go there AND speak Japanese at that time, it has loaded me with a bloody hell of a motivation.
Thanks again guys, I owe you oneHey man,
Although I never question the fact that I want to learn Japanese, it’s been pretty harsh since the whole wanikani/textfugu journey began: I’ve had some up and downs and sometimes litt 0 tome to dedicate.
It’s now been almost 3 years (somewhere along that line) and I’m still not doing better than o’Genki desuka crap.
Of course I do know much more Kanji than I used to but it feels really frustrating like everyday.On the other hand, I always think about this video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxGRhd_iWuE
and what I’ve learn from Japanese and Japanese people/culture, is to NEVER EVER give up.
Better go down a slow path thant no path at all and as my ancesters have said it before me : chi va piano, va sano e va lontano.You can do it.
ps: read this thread too http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/damn-ive-reached-that-damn-dip/
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johnDoe.
Well. First of all, thanks for all your answers.
They’re of great help to me, and I really mean it.
Japan to me is not just anime and crazy stuff. I can’t really explain why but I somehow really feel “connected” to this country. And this whole thing about stoping or slowing pace is not just about WK. I guess it’s a very personal battle against myself too since I always feel like you have to be the best or not be.
I have to take that slow pace path and がんばれ because that’s what life is about.Anyways, I just re-subed to WK and I’m going to keep learning Japanese because I’ve been willing to speak it for years now, and it won’t happen on its own.
Thank you so very much guys, you got me back on track and that’s exactly what friends are for.
John
Wow.
I can’t help but be speechless whenever I get that kind of support from someone I’ve only met on a website.
I mean, I wouldn’t have thought to get an answer like that from a real life friend so, thank you so much for doing this.
Not only this is really nice of you, it is also meaningfull to me and I think you’re absolutely right by encouraging me to keep going. If there’s one thing that I should learn from Japan, it’s 頑張れ.It’s been really hard goin on WK lately (when was still suscribed) because I always comparing to the others, who made such great sentences in 日本語 and had been 50 whilst having signed up after me…
I now feel like this is something personal and whatever the pace that is mine is, it’s better than not doing anything.I’m going to re-sub on WK, do it my way and spend less time on the forums than I used to.
About textfugu, I’m not fond of it, I find it a tad too verbose, most of the time, I’m like “come on, get to the point now”. So my future use of it is rather uncertain.
That said, we have an online community that’s pretty active and in wich you would be welcome if you want to chat more than every two year (post frequency here lol).Throw me an email address if you’re interested.
And that video. Really hits you in the face when you’re complaining about crap behind your keyboard.Thanks.
We need to dig a tunnel to WK ! :p
btw where’s aikibujin !?
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That said, that’s totally understandable that in the begining you’re more active on the forums as the creators you wanna get feedback on what you’re doing. Then I guess you get more and more workload and tend to stay away from the forums.
I know that having bad feedback/opinion is also something that can make you feel reluctant to chat with the users. Cause really, the bigger the community, the more angry people you have even when there’s obviously nothing to complain about..
That feeling must be hard to cope and I hope they still got the “thing” to push WK&TF higher and higher.Ahah. Yeah. Excitement too on the reading Kanjis (even when I know they’re actually hanji lol)
I never had the guts to speak Japanese yet.
However, I got very close to people speaking JP (a JP man and his interpreter) and that was really nice hearing them speak in front of me and me trying to grasp a thing or two.
A week before that, I interfered for a Japanese lady who was too polite to told the cashier that she had arrived before me. I told the cashier and invited the lady to go before me to which she responded “sumimasen”.
It sure is nothing for most people but It was my first interaction with a JP person ever \o/Hi,
to be honest, I don’t come everyday on textfugu cause I don’t study japanese everyday.
On the contrary, Wanikani is something you have to do everyday (for the reviews) and that kinda explains why the forums there are more “active”.Plus, I don’t know about you but the UI here at Textfugu just sucks (something about colours right?), I don’t feel like browsing the site (except for the lessons of course lol) so I kinda dish the forums because of that.
I really really think Textfugu and Wanikani should be united at least on the forum part but although Koichi and Viet mostly listen to what users say, they tend to be super-deaf on some ideas..
I know they have a lot going on but still, TF really feel like it’s been abandoned and that “super update” they promised months ago is not an excuse for the state in which TF is right now.That said, WK forums used to be much more active too. It’s still super active compared to TF though.
On a more general note, I feel like they should really put some money in communication because one little message every once in a while on the forums maybe was the solution back when both WK and TF community was less numerous but now it’s not anymore. We don’t need a commit log, we need to know you didn’t forget us lol.
Na only WK & TF.
But nice to see you too anyways!Will begin season 2 maybe tomorrow.. i need to set all this anki stuff at home and then pow!
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