(2016-06-07, 8:22 am)debrucey Wrote: Nah, personally I find it very distracting. Its difficult to not automatically look at the rōmaji first, even though I don't mean to and then, when I look at the Japanese, I'm not really reading it im just remembering what the rōmaji said.
I understand what you're saying, but the Japanese sentences aren't there for reading practice, they're there to illustrate the grammar points. In that way, it doesn't really matter if you're remembering the romaji when reading the Japanese. The essential thing is that you grasp the grammar.
You'll also probably find this a self-solving problem before long... I find Japanese characters much easier to read than romaji now, and given parallel text like the DoBJG I'd have to force myself to stare at the romaji if for some reason I wanted to read it.