I love the Index on that. Maybe toning it down with the animations a little bit, making it cleaner and that should end up being pretty perfect.

Well, I’m happy that others share my pain, though failing to overcome problems is my personal failure in the end, even if factors other than myself constructed them. You obviously did better in that respect. On a sidenote: Just been through the “Negative Tense Nouns” and finishing up chapter 3 today. You don’t happen to know any good reading exercises, do you? Those sentences in the lessons give me weird issues, but that may also be connected to the fact that I tried to do 2 chapters per day – which may have been slightly too ambitious.

Finally finished Season 1! Only took me a record breaking 9 month or so! :D

I won’t blame it on the Anki instructions, which I’d call broken at this point, but others obviously overcame that hurdle, but it certainly was a factor. As far as “regular learning content” goes: I loved it. I hated the Passion List, and still fear it, but that was all, I love the personal and up-beat feel of the lessons, and the presentation is great, down to the quotes, which feel very well picked, and they generally add to it rather than distract despite being mainly garnish. Otherwise there is only small stuff, such as writing the hiragana chart in a “cleaner” font, and so on.

New: Until today I was sadly unaware of the existence of the lesson index! Making this more visible in the lessons would be an improvement in my opinion. I’m well aware that Textfugu is currently being re-written, and I guess it’s going to improve a great deal so I’m not sure how helpful this still is, so I finish here and see how new Textfugu will be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxGRhd_iWuE

Actually, you may want to re-think “not going back to eBay”. DVD players are REALLY cheap, maybe your local asian store has a blackboard where you can post something, which would be an option if you want to avoid shipping.

Thing is: The Playstation2 is rather affordable, and it does A LOT. You not only plays PS2 games but also basically all PS1 games, and regular DVDs, there actually used to be a proper Remote for the DVD functionality. In my opinion it may be worth looking into that, if you would enjoy playing games that is.

Ha! カKaメMeラRa. If I remember correctly, katakana are used for foreign, and scientific words, so maybe keeping that in mind will help you if you want to go around it.

I kind of dropped the list when every other word tuned out 200+ results with non of them quite fitting, and some being strikingly similar. I picked literature and I’d give some examples, but I don’t remember what precisely I picked, because I disposed of the page in order not to clutter up my book. I decided to come back to it when it would become actually important, and hope that it won’t. In case it does I may try going full retard and do a “20 things I like” list rather than a themed one and see if I can get away with it.

This whole list business wasn’t for me if I’m honest, I felt a bit like a blind man picking out wallpapers – I knew what I was looking for, and I knew what I was looking at, but it just couldn’t make sense of it all.