I was looking at the home page and I thought I had to learn the kanas first. This is my 2nd day studying japanese, I learnt the hiragana yesterday and tomorrow I will tackle the katakanas, from there on I will just review them and start getting some kanji under my belt. I’m using Remebering the Kana (part 1 is hiragana part 2 is katakana) and Remebering the Kanji. Why does this RTK have the kanji pronunciation? When do I start learning the pronunciation? Should I learn the pronunciation at the same time I’m learning the Kanji? If not, why not?

Anywho, I’ve been reading this website and was a little confused regarding the order ni which I should study japanese and today everything got straighten out just by looking at the new homepage graph. Pretty neat.

Keep up the good work. じゃ
　

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It’s a great improvement. I was showing this site to a friend the other and had a bit of trouble deciding in what order to show him the various articles.

I also just want to point out under “Physical Environment” you have posted the No speak english article twice. I noticed this because I am hardcore and my mind is like a steel trap (really).

bai bai

Having that in mind, maybe there should be some sort of note or something at the beginning of the posts which are “old stuff” – the ones which have a newer post which surpasses the old one.

It could be something like “NOTE: While this worked for me at the time of using, I have found what I believe to be a better way of doing this. I suggest you read this more for the sake of understanding my thought process and the evolution of my learning methods than for actual use.”.

The note can be in the post itself, or you could write a small explanation in this overview post, with something like colours or italics to differentiate between posts (stuff which has been improved is italicized, or the letters are in a different colour). Oh, and it should be really visible on both the About page (for new people, or those who come to your site without typing in /blog) and the page with the latest posts (for those who come directly to /blog)

In any case, big thanks and kudos for doing this 🙂 it was quite necessary, and probably not the easiest thing to do.

すごい！

I do think, however, that if you have the time at some stage, a complete rewrite in book form (not necessarily an actual book) would be excellent.