I only got TF in late June so I don’t have as much an issue as some of the older members do but I do agree with a lot of their sentiments. I only found TF from a youtube video from gimmeaflakeman I was on my last months in afghan. When I got back to Okinawa I went and got a life time membership right before my paypal expired since paypal refuses to allow FPO addresses and even though it has it shortcomings at least TF is a one stop (mostly) for new self learners as anything else I have looked (free online resources) seem to only help in one aspect of Japanese so you have to go to many sites in order to try and learn a novice amount of Japanese.

After reading a lot of posts on the forums and going further into TF I find more and more that the statement made by Jacob on Fakku was correct when he said that (paraphrasing) “The only definite way to learn Japanese is to take a class.”. While I do think it is possible to learn it without a class for most average joes like myself a class just makes everything come together a lot easier even if they teach kanji an odd way.