So, something that ends with る but without い or え before the る  is considered “Type 1″ right? i.e. あやまる => あやまります?

lromao,

I’m afraid it doesn’t. After going through a few more grammar lessons, it becomes clear that Koichi just doesn’t know even the most basic stuff when it comes to English grammar. It might be a cultural thing though, because most people on here seem to think I’m a “grammar nazi” but where I’m from most people would be like “WTF?”…

That being said, there are a lot of other good things… I’m at season 5 now and I’m gonna finnish it. But I’ve been supplementing the grammar stuff with Tae Kim as well as a book called “A dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar” which is pretty much the opposite of textfugu… The grammar is spot on, but it’s a super dry read, better used as a reference.

@mtb812 Just because you don’t know anything about grammar doesn’t make me a “Nazi”. I’m not being finicky about the finer details of obscure grammatical points here. This is really basic stuff. I guess grammar is not taught in US schools?

I gotta say though, I can see now why it would be pointless to correct that chapter… I just got to the は and が chapter, and reading his definition of a “subject” makes it clear that he really has no idea of what he’s talking about when it comes to grammar.

I still think it would have been better if he just came up with his own terminology instead of providing wrong information, but hopefully it won’t get in the way of learning Japanese… Let’s see how it pans out.