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I’ve just started with textfugu and many of the references and instructions on how to use other resources seem dated. I know Koichi is working on etoeto. I’m a bit frustrated not to be able to follow along with the lessons and instructions. Does anyone have recommendations for other self study courses similar to textfugu that are up to date?
Updated or maintained? Nope.
Yeah, EtoEto has pretty much stolen all of his time. Not really any way to sugar-coat that. To make matters worse, he’s apparently just decided that everything he’s done so far is terrible, so he’s pretty much starting over from scratch.
Um… give Tae Kim a try?
Tae Kim or Genki, if you are actually serious about studying by the time EtoEto comes out you will be way past it.
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Christopher.
Well, way past the TextFugu section, anyway. EtoEto is intended to have some pretty advanced lessons.
Thanks for the answers. I learned the hiragana with textfugu but then it kind of got weird trying to figure out how to use Jisho by following the examples in textfugu.
For a complete beginner what is better Tae Kim or Genki?
Tae Kim is free so nothing about it can hurt you. Genki is probably the go to textbook for teaching Japanese in the USA, but it is a school textbook; so not designed with “self-learners” in mind.
Currently I have gotten way too distracted learning Kanji…415 Kanji, 1143 Vocab, and almost 0 grammar to actually apply them >_<
For Jisho just type in an English word like ‘Baseball’
On the left you see the Kanji (野球) (Meaning Field and Ball…I’m just proud of myself for knowing both of those)
with furigana. Kanji on the bottom (Chinese characters) then the Hiragana reading on top (やきゅう). Assume you are the part about making a passion list…so I would ignore the Kanji and just write down the Hiragana for now.-
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Honestly I think this is the best program for beginners, if you can figure out solutions to the outdated bits it works perfectly fine and is pretty fun to work with.
Is Textfugu updated or maintained?
No.I visit this forum every couple of years and there is nothing happening.
Pssh. I’ve been happening. I’ve always been happening. =P
Can confirm from my occasional visits that Joel is always happening.
Before I started textfugu I was using the Tae Kim’s Learning Japanese app. Learned all of my Hiragana that way and I liked the youtube videos he had that went with the lesson. I still reference the app each morning before I start my Japanese studies. And sometimes while I’m going through textfugu.
@Joel: Post #50000 GET!
@OP: Yup, I joined late 2010, not long after TF started. After maybe a year or so of frequent updates and lots of community interaction from Koichi (and Hashi RIP xx), things died down and the blog post that kyrias linked has basically been the situation since then. To be fair, Wani Kani seemed to get a fair amount of work put into it but I never actually used it – RtK 4 lyf! “Tofugu TV” was another thing that failed to get off the ground multiple times.
Koichi’s a nice enough guy, he just wouldn’t make a good project manager :P TF was fresh and exciting back when it started but he kinda missed the boat by taking so long with it, such a shame.
@Joel: Post #50000 GET!
Hah, nice. I didn’t even notice. =)
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