This probably doesn’t sound very helpful but… you should just go at the speed you want. Feel like you’re going too slow? Speed up. Too fast? Slow down. If you find there is something you aren’t quite getting or you have forgotten, you can always go back to it, it’s not gonna go away and leave you.

Resources other than TextFugu – Tofugu: 100 Best Japanese Learning Resources
Et voila! :P

As for CoreXK, just wait until you’ve finished all the Seasons – there is plenty of vocab to be learned in TextFugu already (especially these “Ultimate Vocab” lists I’m working through right now) and I think doing both at the same time would be too much, but that’s just me.

If you DO catch up with TextFugu (which you shouldn’t since he is working faster now that he has an employee), check out James Heisig’s Remembering the Kanji – I’ve already explained why it’s awesome in several other RTK threads, so go check there :P

Hmmm… this one seems a bit odd to explain.
Is there a way to say “You X!” instead of “You are X!”? For example: “You idiot!” as opposed “You are an idiot!” or “You tight-fisted bastard!” instead of “You are a tight-fisted bastard!” (is that PG-13? I don’t really know :P).

Oh, I just thought of another question in the same vein: how would you say “You are one X Y! :D”. Like… “You are one sly dog! hehe” or “You are one special lady! ;)”.

Oh, winterpromise31, another benefit of the Ultimate Verbs list: it really helps get your head around the whole transitive/intransitive thing. Seeing so many examples of each helps understand the concept but it also helps you remember certain “rules” when it comes to pairs. While there are no hard and fast rules, you begin to notice several different patterns emerging which is great for remembering which is which (while it may be riddled with exceptions, it’s handy for the ones that DO fit the bill). For example (transitive/intransitive): 始める/始まる, 当てる/当たる, 見つける/見つかる (there aren’t *many* of these “rules”, but that seems to be the most prevailant one).

Oh, I’m retarded – I thought you said “horizontal lines” :S But I see what one it is :) 血（ち） is the kanji for “blood”, though I’m not sure why 団交 is highlighted and it’s getting you to draw 血…. It looks like you’ve had to draw those four kanji in the middle line in order (though I may be mistaken), but you’ve left the dictionary page (or whatever it is) for 団 open. I don’t know, but they are two separate kanji with no related meaning.

^ Do you mean 白 or 自? Are you sure it’s the same word? Perhaps it’s the same character but in a different font. Do you have a screenshot maybe?

I would have thought Pong would be the simplest game to play in Japanese ;)

Well if you’re stuck with nothing to do, surely doing more vocab won’t overwhelm you, right? It’ll just fill in the gaps, so instead of having nothing to do tomorrow as well, you’ll have い-adjectives to review :)

Also, I’d recommend you don’t review early – there is a logic behind the reviewing intervals and I’m sure you’d get less benefit if you just ignore the “Spaced” part of “Spaced Repetition Software”. If you get a card right only because you saw it earlier on that day, you’re not giving your brain a good enough stretch :P That’s just my feeling though.

High-five for being beginners! :P We’ve not been studying long so it’s not really surprising that we’re both at a beginner stage; no one would expect us to be experts already. Just gotta keep going, making a little progress at a time and we’ll get to intermediate stage soon enough :) Koichi plans to be finished Season 6 by the end of the year (Pfft! As if :P) – should be the end of beginnerhood and on to intermediatedom; a good mid-term goal, to be beyond newbieville by the end of the year ;)

Y’know, as much as I can’t understand 1% of native material yet, I am noticing gradually more words here and there, which is nice. Listened to a Perfume song today that I’ve heard 9001 times already and heard 「諦める」（あきらめる）[give up] which is one of my Ultimate Verbs – I wasn’t actively listening, I just heard it randomly and it put a smile on my face when I recognised it :) I’m getting to studying native material one word at a time ;)

The damned (but beautiful) writing system is really what’s been slowing us down – any other language and we’d be pro by now ;)