Comments on: AJATT: Accept No Subsitutes?

By: joshuah

joshuah — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:04:49 +0000

This really shows how low people can be sometimes. I mean the whole ajatt thing, originally, is not about personal profit, its about how Khatz decided to share with the others a set of methods and tools he gathered and worked with to achieve a goal. He could have kept it for himself, but doing so is not doing justice to Japanese, with all the misconceptions and myths about this “impossible” language. The method is not even for profit, one can achieve fluency without even buying any of the premium/plus materials that are there for conveninence. The blog is for the purpose of sharing, discussing and (self)improving, and it is great for this purpose. Thanks to Tkyosam’s video, I discovered this unique blog. And thanks to rules of nature its uniqueness is not endangered by plagiarism.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:17:48 +0000

I actually prefer the green and orange to the blue 😛

Seriously, I’m in love with the site design.

By: afronathan

afronathan — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:24:46 +0000

lmao I have a sense of deja vu.

That was just a copypasta job. Not as good as the original mind

By: Vaughn

Vaughn — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:47:26 +0000

j.arenzi.net/?p=41

“Piracy Haters Need To Stop Being Suckups”

…seems to me that the activity seems to fall right in line with her philosophy. Shame.

Khatzumoto, let me reiterate how awesome your inspirational advice is; I’d want to steal it, too. 😉

By: GATTSU!

GATTSU! — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:10:39 +0000

All Japanese All The Time Reloaded…

I just have to say something about this. I’ve been doing a lot of designing and studying for GATTSU! lately, and haven’t had much time to check out AJATT so I checked his RSS feed and saw two new posts. "Oh boy! Fresh Mea…

By: Empathic

Empathic — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:03:19 +0000

Apparently Maki is the host of the site?

“This site is happily hosted by Maki (arenzi.net) and should be viewable in any browser and any resolution. I mainly use this page to blog (of course) and also to share my ideas, random life stories, and advice to anyone who wants to read them.”

j.arenzi.net/?page_id=45

By: quendidil

quendidil — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:18:56 +0000

” 1.
Maki
said,

January 19, 2008 at 7:40 am

I’ve been procrastinating too. At least we have a week off. I haven’t had one in January since 3 years ago. So I’d better clean too.
”

They might not be the same person, but they are related.

By: ruisu

ruisu — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:20:55 +0000

lol @ the donate button.

By: Nivaldo

Nivaldo — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:33:44 +0000

Hmmm…I hope it’s not a “blue” version of another site. 🙂

By: Damien

Damien — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:11:45 +0000

I wonder if “Maki” and “Joyce” are related?

j.arenzi.net/?p=41

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:14:29 +0000

Wow, that is much nicer on the eyes, at least!

By: nacest

nacest — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:17:57 +0000

What sent me nuts was the fact that she took the time to “design” even the little donation icon exactly like yours. Man, that site was kind of sad…

Anyway Khatz, your drawings are way better 😉

By: vgambit

vgambit — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 06:56:23 +0000

It’s a damn shame the guy was ripping off AJATT. If it was presented as an archive of sorts, and kept donation and amazon links going to you, I probably would’ve changed my homepage to that just for that layout.

Honestly, I’m not really feeling the green and orange. Any chance of a new layout? Possibly one selectable by users (with color info stored using cookies or something)?

This is the color layout I use on another site, and I find it extremely easy on the eyes.

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By: Vaughn

Vaughn — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:21:45 +0000

Have been reading the updates for a while and I’m sold! Have spent the last few weeks on Heisig’s method, pushed past 1,000 more easily than imagined, and am excited to get ’em all done soon. Residing in Japan is also quite helpful, as I’m able to glance at signs and have a sometimes good, sometimes vague, idea of what I’m seeing. And even without the ability to “read the sounds” of the kanji, let me say how immensely helpful it was to simply understand that where I might have wanted to park the other night was “special use parking” and subject to nastiness. 😮 So to Khatzumoto, and all the others giving their good input, thanks!

-Vaughn

ASIDE:
Stepping away from the praise and goodness for a while, I was amazed to read that someone would be silly enough to even attempt a “reformation” of this site. I mean the AJATT idea itself is so novel…. Anyway, some independent research of my own revealed that this “Maki” character seems to be a no more than a bored 17 year-old punk. I won’t tell you exactly how I went about it, because I don’t like the idea of coming off as a vigilante, but it’s the internet…it’s not hard to find things.

By: Nivaldo

Nivaldo — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:08:06 +0000

Thanks, Khatz! I was really curious about that site.After all, if it weren’t for the exact copy of your articles I think it would be a great site helping diffuse(?) the method. The author did create some original content but unfortunately for him the major part had been created by you. Once again, thanks for the screenshots. You could even take some ideas from there, what do you think? 😀

By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:40:28 +0000

Thank you all so much for your support.

Um…here are some screenshots: don’t ever say I never did nothing for da peoples 😉

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By: Nivaldo

Nivaldo — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:41:36 +0000

I’m the unlucky! Wanted to see the AJATT in blue. 😀

By: milk

milk — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:28:21 +0000

Don’t suppose anyone got screenshots of the offending site?

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:14:34 +0000

“Oh, it’s already down. Stupid git must have taken it down.”

Hah, but not before I, together with a number of others, had posted some mocking comments 🙂

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:09:21 +0000

Aww, damn. I missed it 🙁