At first I thought “ANOTHER site redesign?! WHY? XD Making it look prettier again won’t help people learn any faster. And what’s this? “I won’t be adding new lessons while I finish this up”? BLARGHOIHOSDIFHVLIHEOUFPHWUFHIEWJFBUFHSSSOS!!!!1″

Then I saw that new content was actually part of the update and it wasn’t just about aesthetics, so I thought “Ooooooohhhhh…” :D

Hopefully this “Advanced” section will actually allow me to start using TextFugu again :D The only trouble with it is that he says it’ll be handled by someone else – isn’t the whole appeal of TextFugu that it’s written by Koichi? I mean if they can copy his style of teaching, I guess that’d be fine, but it wouldn’t quite be the same.

FORUM FEATURES?!?! Hot diggity! :D *fingers crossed for search bar/image embed/video embed*

“Separate blog”? But TF already has one, doesn’t it? http://www.textfugu.com/blog/

EDIT: While having a sift through the blog, I noticed in the post “Here’s What 2011 Looks Like” one of the goals was “Finish up the “Core” content”: “Three plus seasons were written in 2010, so it makes sense to finish the other three (planned) seasons in 2011″ (for any of you that are newer here, Seasons were different back then)
That’s just hilarious XD Seemed a reasonable goal at the time, but now we see just how unrealistic it was…

• This reply was modified 12 years, 10 months ago by  MisterM2402 [Michael].

Again @kanjiman8: http://www.jpopasia.com/play/32727/radwimps/dada.html
Not quite in the same “pleasant” vein, but it’s fun to watch all the kanji nonetheless :P Also fun to try and keep up with the lyrics ;)

@kanjiman8: This song has the number 999999 in it’s lyrics, see if you can sing along XD
http://www.jpopasia.com/play/7758/radwimps/iin-desu-ka.html

@hey: Damn, you spotted that :P

Yeah, I think you’ve pretty much got it. Just think of a word being composed of two parts: the sound and the written representation. You learn the sound じょうず and you learn how to write it 上手. Over time you’ll recognise patterns in pronunciation/associated kanji, so you’ll effectively “pick up” readings as you go. Say you didn’t know one of the readings of 上 was じょう: you’d learn the word じょうず and then the word いじょう, notice that the じょう parts in both are written with 上, and thus you’ve learned a reading with no effort :D

Just think if someone was learning English and instead of just learning the name “Michael” as is, they went about learning every pronunciation of “ae” first. It’d be quite an inefficient way to do things.

If you learn readings just by learning vocab, then you’re only learning the readings you actually *need* at that specific moment in time. It’s efficient, streamlined ;)

What Kyle said ^

@missingno15: Ah yes, Tubatime created that forum along with Bbvoncrumb, didn’t he? What was it called again?
The real reason you hate the lack of image/video embed here is because it makes it harder to spam AKB48 ;) Picture after picture, video after video… As much as I don’t care about them, it was still funny :P

I think I’ll take a quick peak at the old forum again (if it’s still up). Wonder if anyone else has posted since I last looked :D

It’s been about a year since this new forum was created, judging by the date on the “Forum Rules” thread. Seems like a lifetime ago…

EDIT: NOOOOOOOOOO!! The old forum is gone!! How could you *do* this to us, man…?! ;_; 1000s upon 1000s upon 1000s of words I’d written all just thin air now. All that time I spent preaching the word of RTK XD Ah, it’s funny in a way, but I’m still sad to see it go, even if it did “go” a year ago :/

• This reply was modified 12 years, 10 months ago by  MisterM2402 [Michael].

It’s the limitation of the specific plugin they use for the forum that causes the lack of functionality. There’s nothing they can really do about it.

Any Nintendo fans? Reading through an interview with Koji Kondo, composer for such series as Mario and Zelda :D Can be found here, if any of you want to see it too: http://www.zeldapower.com/index.php/zelda-sheet-music/682-the-legend-of-zelda-series-super-best-for-guitar.html

It’s 6 pages long (the second row of thumbnails). I bought the English version of the book since the Japanese one was kinda expensive – and I had an Amazon gift card, which also bought me JSPFEC – and there just wasn’t enough 日本語 in it to warrant buying. Unfortunately, the English edition doesn’t have the interview or even the accompanying CD, but the songs in it are still fantastic :D Can’t wait to get back to my guitar and get learning them haha. Solo arrangements of various Zelda tunes for classical guitar.

I find I’m getting the gist of a lot of it, even if I can’t figure out exactly what he’s saying. Not using a dictionary (vocab or grammar), just reading through seeing how much I can get :) Still some bits that I’ve got no clue about. Reading is such an awesome way to practise vocab other than Anki :D

And if any of you wish to hear the quite exquisitely done pieces: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLED86AD896A3CF401&feature=plcp ;)

• This reply was modified 12 years, 10 months ago by  MisterM2402 [Michael].