Shave 30 Years Off Your Japanese Studies In 30 Days [New Ebook!]

What if you could spend the next thirty days honing the way you learn Japanese and as a result shave thirty years off your Japanese studies? Would you do it? I for one wouldn’t want you to look like this by the time you’re fluent.

He didn’t know how to study Japanese very well…

That’s the basic idea that spawned the idea for the ebook we’re releasing today in the Tofugu Store. I wanted to write something that could help anyone studying Japanese no matter what resource they ended up using. In the end, most resources and classes basically cover the same sorts of things. “To be fluent, you learn X, Y, and Z.” Really, there isn’t a ton of variation on what you learn.

If you want to become fluent a lot more quickly, like years and years faster than anyone else, you don’t need to change what you learn, you need to change how you’re learning it.

Textbooks won’t tell you about this. Why? Because they don’t care how long it takes you to learn. Why would they?

The thing that differs greatly from person to person, and the thing that decides whether someone takes a couple of years to gain fluency or a couple of decades, really boils down to how good they are at learning. With this ebook, I want to help people with the “how” side of things. Here’s how I do it:

“30 Days Of Becoming A Better Japanese Learner”

Our new ebook (titled above) is is broken up into thirty chapters / days (with bonus chapters coming soon!). Each day covers a single topic – a topic that will help you to learn Japanese more effectively. Each chapter will go over:

What: Learn what you should be doing different.

Why: Learn why you should be doing said subject differently.

How: Learn what you need to do to accomplish this.

Do: Actually take action and do the things talked about in the chapter. If you don’t try it, how will any of this help you? I’ll tell you what you need to do and how you do it so you can accomplish Japanese language greatness.

With this setup, you not only learn how to learn Japanese as effectively as you can, but you’ll actually make measurable progress in your Japanese as well. If you go through every chapter and do everything in this ebook, I’ll be surprised if you’re not considerably better at Japanese within 30 days, not to mention the following months where you take these strategies and really run with the ones that work for you.

This Ebook Is Made For…

Well, Japanese learners for starters. If you’re not learning Japanese, chances are this ebook won’t help you as much (though, to be honest, you learn a ton about productivity, memory, and general learning as well, though that’s not what this ebook was specifically made for). All levels of Japanese will benefit from this ebook because it covers how to learn, so you can use it in parallel with whatever Japanese learning resource you choose.

Mainly, though, I think the following type of person will benefit most:

  • Someone who feels like their Japanese language progress has stalled.
  • Someone who doesn’t feel like they’re learning Japanese fast enough.
  • Someone who’s ready to take their Japanese to the next level.

I want you to become a Japanese learning powerhouse – it’s not easy (I’m not going to sugarcoat it), but there are very different things that great Japanese learners do that nobody else does. It’s not a matter of working harder… it’s knowing how to work, and I reveal those secrets in this ebook.

Click the button above to see this ebook’s store page and learn more about what you’ll be getting!

67% Off Introductory Pricing And More!

Since it’s our first ebook, I wanted to make sure it was nice and affordable for everyone. For the first week, we’ll be offering it at 67% off (so, $10 instead of $30). That comes out to around 33 cents per day. I make more than that checking my couch cushions. Plus, you’ll get all the future bonus chapters, future improved versions of this ebook, and access to alpha testing of Viet@Tofugu’s current project, a webapp for learning kanji. It’s not ready yet, but in the coming few weeks ebook buyers will be the first to get invites.

Of course, I’m totally understanding about refunds – if you go through it and it’s not helpful for you, just email me (koichi@tofugu.com) and I’ll get you a refund. Easy as that. I don’t want to sell something that you can’t use.

But, if I can save you five, ten, or even thirty years… well, I’d say that’s pretty useful. That means you’ll be speaking Japanese like a pro well before you turn into skeleton guy up above. It won’t be easy, but it doesn’t have to be slow. Get Our New Ebook Now :) →

  • http://www.tofugu.com koichi

     I don’t think you have to create an account with us, but you will have to create an account on Paypal (which is what we’re accepting payment through).

  • http://www.tofugu.com koichi

     Awesome! Glad it’s helping!

  • http://www.tofugu.com koichi

     There’s a sample page in one of the images (click on it to see full size). Maybe I’ll do sample pages later on, but gotta choose which ones….

  • http://www.tofugu.com koichi

     and other levels as well!

  • http://www.tofugu.com koichi

     Awesome! Yeah, I think it’s really good for unsticking people – let me know how it’s going for you as you go through!

  • http://twitter.com/WackoMcGoose Kimura Okagawa

    They do keep sending me student credit card applications… which I don’t qualify for because my annual income is $0.00. I do technically have a joint account with my parents (they put me on theirs so I’d get a boost from their good credit history when I go out on my own), but Paypal’s error page thing explicitly said “no co-signed accounts, you must be the primary (or sole) account holder”.

  • José

    I’ve always felt that tofugu is waaay more serious than ajatt. I love Koichi’s advices on how to learn japanese, I especially love the [Obvious] series. And that’s why I decided to buy this ebook, take into account that I never buy anything online, and I’m not only buying it as a way to thank Koichi for his hard work, but because I know it will actually help me improve my japanese.

  • http://www.tofugu.com koichi

    thanks dude! I hope you enjoy and learn a ton!

  • http://twitter.com/shollum Shollum

    You don’t need to link your bank account to PayPal if you don’t want to. You just get some restrictions on your transactions.

    As for getting money into it without a credit/debit card, you can always start making money online; most of these things will pay you directly to PayPal, just make sure to research things carefully. You won’t have money in time to purchase this ebook at the discounted price, but it will be income. I’d suggest looking at the site workathomenoscams.com for info on this type of thing.

    I’ve never heard anything about only being able to use an account that you are the sole signer on.

    You could (as a temporary measure) open a savings account to transfer some money. You usually just have to make a single deposit and keep a minimum balance in. Of course, it will have to be temporary; savings accounts tend to have transaction restrictions (you won’t run into them if you have no income, but just so you know).

    And some really good financial advice; never use credit cards, especially at your age. They are nothing but cliffs to throw your financial life off of. Only spend what you can afford and think before you get a loan. I follow these points and actually have real money.

    One last thing, I have had a checking account since before I was 21.

    All of your problems have solutions: no money, make some; no bank account, get one; no information, find it.

    To part with some philosophical thing I heard at one point in my life “The only boundaries that exist are the ones you make for yourself”… or something like that.

  • guyhey

    Textfugu covers a lot of “how to learn” topics. Does this overlap with Textfugu, and if so by how much?

    I’m nervous that I’ll be reading stuff I’ve already learned on Textfugu, and that will be time I could have spent studying.

  • taikura

    “Since it’s our first ebook, I wanted to make sure it was nice and affordable for everyone. For the first week, we’ll be offering it at 67% off (so, $10 instead of $30). ”
    When I go to the checkout, it is $29.00.   How may I purchase at $10?

  • Michael

    “For the first week”

    The date of the article is in the URL.  It’s already been 2 weeks since the book was released, sorry.

  • Rebeccawitham

    Hi Koichi,

    Just letting you know that I am following your 30 day e-book and it is working a treat!
    I have just one question about good ‘ol radicals though – I have been perusing your cheatsheet and was wondering if I can change the names/mnemonic of some of them? For example, to me, the radical you have for ‘Flowers’ looks to me like a train track… Can I change the mnemonic myself in order to better remember it Or are all radicals meant to have a set meaning? I know that the radical for 8 can also look like a ‘volcano’ (as on your cheatsheet), so I was just wondering…. Does that many ANY sense? Hmm. Hope so! xo

  • Shirley

    Hi! thanks for all these content.. chanced upon a post on your article and quite amazed at what you are sharing.
    rather new here .. so wondering … erm does the ebook work on iPhone?
    if I download can I use it both on my iPad and iPhone without buying it twice?
    and the ebook content is beyond 30 days duration… meaning if I cant get thru the content in 30days there is no implications right?

    thanks’ (^^)/ can’t wait to improve my Japanese

  • http://twitter.com/WackoMcGoose Kimura

    Solution to freaking everything: get Dad to pay for it. Traded lawn-mowing money for him to use his Paypal to buy it (and the Ultimate Vocab Decks), been enjoying it ever since.

    And the linked-bank-account thing is only “just recommended” if you’re over 21. Younger than that, it’s required to even create the paypal account. I could understand if the age threshold was lower, like 18, since they don’t want random kids who aren’t even responsible enough to have a normal bank account trying to use the service (hence the “no cosigned” restriction). But with it being 21, it locks out a ton of young adults (myself included) who are old enough to know what they’re doing, but just haven’t been lucky enough to land a job yet because the job market suuuuuuucks.

    (Also, about that working-online thing: I found a cool service called oDesk, and it’s basically for connecting freelance programmers to clients. Sounds right up my alley, except even though anyone 18+ can sign up, you can’t apply to any work until you have a verified withdrawl method in your own name (namely, either Paypal (or an international equivalent) or a domestic bank account)…)

    Anyway, going back to more vocab studying. These decks work great (though I think having NINE decks open in Anki at once is destabilizing the whole program, it keeps reverting the Tofugu decks – and only them, not Lazy Kanji or any others – to “spread new cards through reviews” mode even though I’ve told it “no new cards until ALL review cards are done”)