As you can tell from this image of Fonzie, “How To Be Casual, Part 2” is up and pretty much ready to go. The rest of this week will be spent finishing the next chapter after this one, as well as the next kanji chapter.

Oh, and there will be some neat things regarding e-mail showing up too, if the other two things get done first.

That being said, there are a couple of other schedule have changed as well. Here they are in easy-to-read bullet mode:

• New Season 2 estimated completion date: January 20
• January 20 – January 31: I’ll be spending time looking at Season 1 & 2 lessons, adding new worksheets, submenus, more organization, and more. I think 10 days to go through and improve the lessons will be well spent, and make sure there’s a great framework to build future lessons on. Thanks to your feedback I have a good sized list of improvements I want to make that will make TextFugu easier to use. I’ll be working on:
  • Sub menus
  • “Vocab-focus” Worksheets
  • Lesson checklists
  • Addition of “big picture” takeaways throughout lessons to help organize and highlight the important things you need to learn
  • Audio for Japanese text so you can practice speaking / listening almost anything
  • Copies of flashcards on Anki (for backup or if someone prefers using Anki over Smart.fm)
  • Complete “Vocabulary,” “Worksheets,” and “Tools” pages.
  • Search functionality for members
  • Figuring out how to hide “buy now!” buttons, etc., from signed in members
• February 1: TextFugu’s price will go up until the completion of Season 3. New price starting February 1 is $75, i.e. around 25% off the final price of $99.
• February 20-25: Completion of Season 3.
• February 21-29: Go back and do fixes – make improvements based on feedback up until this point.
• March 1: TextFugu goes to full price ($100) and Season 4 work begins.

That being said, 4 new lessons are up, with a couple more almost ready to go up. I’ll still be making tweaks to new lessons, through the 20th, though, so you may see some (small) changes between now and then.