Sorry for resurrecting this topic. Yeah. I went through that a couple of months ago – with work and whatnot I wasn’t able to study for 2 months straight so I just kinda did wanikani and let this lapse for 2 months. I was also on lang-8 (I jumped in waaaayyyy too early) and felt overwhelmed.

Let me preface this part by saying that I’m not trying to sell you on this site. However, if you feel like you will come back to this you may want to pick up the lifetime membership right now as it’s on sale ($59). I started on the subscription about a year ago and switched to lifetime – when I emailed Koichi he switched me over and applied the fees I had previously paid.

I must say that I noticed my sense of japanese-learning urgency has decreased with the lifetime purchase. But that could also be because my job decided to keep me in America shipping me to Japan.

If you want free stuff – regarding grammar you can check out Tae Kim’s site which also has an app for android. You can also check out your local library to see what they have there. Mine has a surprising amount of books. That way you can keep your current japanese level at least (if the interest is still there).

I’m on level 11 in wanikani and I wouldn’t do it unless you have a lot of free time and also don’t want to actually see if you can recall the reading/definition in the set times. I started out doing both, but I found it more effective to go to Japanese sites/pod casts and actually see how they use the vocab. This is normally with items I doubt WK would teach such as law terms and phrases. There are a lot of subtle differences in the various vocab phrases that roughly translate to the same meaning in English. I feel that WK and rtk don’t really go into that, but the later levels might.

I also starting missing the answers a lot more once I stopped using the anki deck since I wasn’t testing them so often.

http://www.forvo.com/languages/ja/

Not sure how comprehensive it is but I’m guessing it’s a good start.

Thanks for that. I’m honestly not too worried about accent right now as I try to pronounce words like I’m saying the individual corresponding kana. Right now, I’m more worried about me pronouncing parts that are typically left silent (like in です and でした).

As I build my vocab I’ll start listening to neutral accent podcasts and trying to sound like those.

I realize I’m kinda late, but the following information might help. I submitted a request for beta before I joined Textfugu and got login details within a couple of hours.

As Tobias stated, you can sign in through Textfugu also.

First two levels are free and the ones after are paid (can get a discount through the TextFugu homepage discount level though). It looks like the price may go up in January so you might want to start paying before then even if you don’t reach the paid levels.

You can also join memrize (free) and download some sessions to your mobile device. You have to choose the individual courses you take. I joined Tae Kim’s and some Kata ones.