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Textfugu

[(Anonymous)]

Is it worth it? I did the lesson 1 trial and loved it - the structure and tone of the lessons really worked for me and kept me motivated and regularly practicing my Japanese daily. I'd tried learning hiragana before, but only got marginally good at it with the stop and start learning with books, and I've done 1000x better learning it in Textfugu.

I'm also kinda slow going through them - I like to really absorb each step before moving to the next - so I think it'd be cheaper to go with the one-time $120 than the $20 a month. But, that's still a lot of money for me to spend right now; and I think it was just learning about realkana and drag n' drop that really made the difference.

So, is there anyone here who's bought it that can say if you learn enough in the 8 lessons they have available to be worth it?

Re: Textfugu

[(Anonymous)]

So for 8 lessons altogether it costs $120? That means $15 per lesson. If you went with the $20/month after 6 months you'd be paying more.

The question is how long will it take you to complete each lesson? If it takes you more than a month for each lesson it would be better to save up for a while and buy it at $120 so you can go at your pace.

Re: Textfugu

[(Anonymous)]

Lifetime availability to the 8 lessons, which are always being improved on and updated, and some advanced lessons and kanji learning and practice.

It all sounds really good, but as the first lesson was hiragana, which was something I did have some familiarity to begin with (and the mentioned tools had so much to do with how well I learned it) I technically didn't learn anything NEW, just learned it better.

So I'm still hesitant about if the rest of the courses will help and teach me as much about things I don't know as well.

Re: Textfugu

[reading_corsair]

Whether or not it's worth buying, in my opinion, depends on how much you expect to learn from this.

Looking at this page: http://www.textfugu.com/lessons/

It has 8 'seasons' where in the last one you learn about time. This material most likely won't get you past the basics.
If that is all you want/expect from this and are convinced that this is the only way of learning that works for you, I'd consider saving up the $120.

If not, there are a lot of other good (free) websites/communities/software/books, that can teach you a lot more for less money.

Re: Textfugu

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I've looked over the lesson titles and that's one of the reason's I'm hesitating.

The lessons really only cover the basics. I love the teaching style because it seems more approachable and it has neat shortcut tricks, but I know I can learn all these things from other sources, in-fact I already have learned some of it from the books I already have - just (as with hiragana) not as well as I'd hoped yet.

Re: Textfugu

[(Anonymous)]

I think it really depends. I've been considering buying Textfugu myself and going with the $120 just because due to general busy life stuff I don't think I could get through it all quickly enough for the $20/month to not end up being more money, and you can always get a refund if it doesn't work out. I'm a complete beginner at Japanese, though, and I'm planning on using it mainly as a springboard to get the basics down before I jump into other study courses -- most of the other courses I've found online either don't have the kind of structure I'd prefer (Japanesepod101, for example, looked good but I don't like that most of the beginner lessons are basically 'learn how to do thing x in Japanese' without any of the grammar structure behind why) or are a bit too dense for just starting off (Tae Kim and Imabi give a lot of info but it's not something I think I could study consistently, I like Textfugu because the Anki decks are a good study tool for me).

If you're only going to pay for one Japanese site, though, I suggest ditching Textfugu for a free site and paying for its sister site Wanikani (http://www.wanikani.com/) instead. WK is focused solely on using kanji and I'm finding it incredibly helpful. The only downside is it doesn't teach stroke order, but I find it much easier than trying to memorize from a book (and if you do use Textfugu, you can skip most of the kanji sections, WK covers them better).