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

By: Kimura

Kimura — Sat, 12 May 2012 19:13:00 +0000

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”)

By: Shirley

Shirley — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:33:00 +0000

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

By: Rebeccawitham

Rebeccawitham — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:41:00 +0000

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

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:39:00 +0000

“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.

By: taikura

taikura — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:13:00 +0000

“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?

By: guyhey

guyhey — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:02:00 +0000

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.