The old, much better TextFugu forum had a search function (and image/video embedding), but they gave it all up to make this new one several months ago. I’ve no idea why…

http://textfugu.com/forum/ – have a little exploration there :) You might find something useful/interesting. If you want to discuss it, you can always make a thread about it here (since nobody looks at that old forum any more). Koichi promised he’d move all the old topics from there over to his new forum (and restore certain features like the aforementioned search bar and video/image embedding), but it never happened, so you’ll almost definitely find something good there :) Oh, and the HTML tags were 9001x better there too.

Really, both forums are terrible, but the old one was the best of the bad :P

@winterpromise31: Was that using よう? Or 見ます? Or even でしょう? I have no idea if those last two actually even make sense like that XD

My last box on Koohii is SO CLOSE to overtaking the second last one :P 7+ reviews is at 871 cards while 6 reviews is at 898 cards – it’s been so long since I finished RTK and I’m still reviewing every day :D

• This reply was modified 13 years, 5 months ago by  MisterM2402 [Michael].

http://youtu.be/WBMOTg_XELs
Never seen dancing like it :P

It’s the theme music for BBC’s documentary series “Japanorama” (as hosted by Jonathon Ross).

I met up with a Japanese guy I met on Facebook, tonight – he’s over here in Edinburgh studying linguistics and I started talking to him online a few months ago. Tonight’s been the first time we weren’t both busy haha

Oh my god, it was embarrassing how bad I was XD He was trying to explain things to me in Japanese, and I just wasn’t following >.< I felt really bad about it, but he kept saying「大丈夫、大丈夫！」. It was interesting at least, but really frustrating having to speak in English the majority of the time because I didn't know how to say it in Japanese :( And it was embarrassing having him sitting there for 5 minutes while I umm'd and uhh'd and didn't even get the answer in the end XD He says he doesn't mind doing it for like 30mins – 1hour but he agreed that if we were doing it like that all day, it would get too much :P

He explained that he thought the best way for me to learn was for him to speak all in Japanese, and while I know that's true, it sounds way too difficult XD Even though I can help him with stuff in English, I feel bad because I need a lot more help than he does :P

We're both really busy however, so I don't think we'll get to see each other much. I'm looking forward to the next meeting but I'm dreading it at the same time XD

I’ve got 3 TextFugu stickers, all gifts from Koichi :3 Not actually stuck them anywhere yet though; they are just sitting in my drawer, in their little envelopes hehe.

Instead of killing LeChuck with cursed root beer, you show him some good Western animation and he runs off screaming into the sunset. Or just talk to him in fluent Japanese; same effect ;)

@jkl: Riaikun tells me どっか means “somewhere; anywhere; in some respects”. Then “a place to stay”, like you said. The last part, my brain is wildly thinking it’s a combination of 寝る、べき and かな – I don’t even know how to use べき or かな properly, but I’ve heard them in passing before. That’s probably a load of rubbish, but if you take it to be true, it sounds something like “I wonder if I should probably find somewhere to stay for the night…”. I’m doubting ねえ relates to 寝る, but べかな looks like it could be べき＋かな.

Just a thought :) You’re much better at Japanese than me, so I’m most likely talking nonsense XD