This forum is a few years old and has seen a few changes. There are new and established posters plus an unknown number of casual readers. All are from different backgrounds in different stages of Japanese learning.

So, why do you still visit (or post) in these forums?

Myself, the RevTK forum still continues to surprise and inform me. Be it innovative programs (Anki and Subs2Srs I learned about here), useful websites (iKnow and AJATT I found out about here), and motivation from posters based on how they're progressing (Alyks' and Magamo's posts on how fast they advanced for example). I doubt I'd have stuck this out for the last two years without such a varied, wondrous base.

So, despite a couple of negative comments about my ever growing post count, I'm glad I stayed active in these forums.

This is the only online public place I communicate on--it's cutting edge/useful and resonant to my idiosyncratic tastes, and I enjoy being quasi-present, receiving and sharing ideas because I realize from being here that reciprocity is what's necessary to continue benefiting from it.

- Simple interface, no adds, no unnecesary stuff or horrifying Flash
- Interesting posts and information
- Helping community
- Good people with who I feel very comfortable
- Noone selling stuff, noone promoting himself or pirating stuff.

Basically I feel good, I feel people reads my posts and they try to help or correct me, I may help someone with them also. Very regarding.

I need help with Chinese now and I trust posters here more than any teacher in my city.

I stick around for resources, advice and interesting discussions (though my time spent lurking tends to outweigh that spent actively contributing).

Nukemarine Wrote:So, why do you still visit (or post) in these forums?

There are other reasons too, but in a few words:

1.- This is the ultimate source for Japanese learning resources.

2.- The community is great: people are mature, nice and always helping each other.

3.- Despite haking known lots of people who "study" Japanese, almost none of them are as motivated as average people here. And almost all of them are absolutely clueless about Japanese learning resources, or simply don't care about them.

To be honest, the Japanese language wouldn't be the same for me and I wouldn't know as much as I know if it weren't for this place and its people.

Thank you all and keep on learning and collaborating!


P.S. : Does somebody know a Japanese "equivalent" for this community?

Sebastian Wrote:P.S. : Does somebody know a Japanese "equivalent" for this community?

One for Japanese people learning Japanese, in Japanese?

- It's a fun forum with nice and interesting people and the occasional troll to keep things interesting.
- Interacting with people that share a common goal is a good way to stay motivated.
- I've learned about a ton of useful resources from this forum. You guys keep finding the most awesome things.
- This community is very helpful and quick to respond to questions even when they are not directly Japanese-related.
- There are not enough lolcats on icanhascheezburger.com to keep me busy all day at work

hknamida Wrote:

Sebastian Wrote:P.S. : Does somebody know a Japanese "equivalent" for this community?

One for Japanese people learning Japanese, in Japanese?

I think it means, an English learning site for Japanese people in Japanese.
Although, after you learn the ABCs, it's not much to continue from there without actual speaking practice...

Then again, I could be wrong(about both things)

This simply is the best forum I know of to discuss japanese.

Every other one is just for beginners or people who want to translate manga/anime. Nothing wrong with that, its just not what I want to read about.

EDIT: And yes, posters here are the most motivated and scrupulous(sometimes to a fault) studiers I've known about. Its great. There is no 'what does boku/ore mean?' everyday questions but REAL discussions about serious study habits.

Something I wrote to ファブリス a little while back ((BROKEN LINK) link) on the topic of adding a Chinese forum here:

mafried Wrote:There are other Chinese language forums of course, but my experience has been that they are all filled with trolls, have hostile admins, or are distinctly anti-Heisig, anti-AJATT. RevTK, on the other hand, is an open, welcoming community that has not only tested and accepted new, revolutionary study methods (like AJATT), but has also pioneered some of its own (KO2001, subs2srs). Sure, we have our (sometimes strong) opinions about how Japanese should be studied, but I've been posting and before that lurking here long enough to see that this community knowledge was gathered out of trial and error, a genuine desire to find and catalog the most efficient learning methods, and enough humility to admit that there might be better methods out there than what we're currently using. I greatly admire and respect the other members of this forum for what has been accomplished so far, and it would be truly great if such a resource could be developed for Chinese as well.

Of course the other reason I'm still here is that I, uh, still haven't finished RTK One of these days...

I don't have a good conscious reason for visiting as often and reading as many posts as I do, and I suspect I'd be better off if I didn't. If I spent all that time actually doing RTK, I'd probably be finished it by now >.>

Same thing everybody else said pretty much. There are always new things and ideas to learn from here.

Oh plus the camaraderie, even if you are new here you can just jump in any discussion without feeling unwelcome.

When it comes to language learning communities, the RevTK forum just feels like "home". People here set themselves high goals, just like myself, and are determined enough to reach them. Also people are pretty open to stuff around here. I kind of like that atmosphere. On the other hand, I get the impression most other language forums are full of nay-sayers and sceptics.

mentat_kgs Wrote:I need help with Chinese now and I trust posters here more than any teacher in my city.

You'll learn chinese too? Awesome.

I visit this forum because it has many useful advices. And it's a way for me to practice my english.

Best part about this forum: others that share a common, albeit hard, goal of becoming fluent in Japanese. I like the ideas presented, posters that discuss tough topics, and seeing the same people obviously still studying (nukemarine among others) is a positive influence on my own studies.

1.The community shares the same goals so there is effective communication between members
2.Everyday there's something new!
3.It became an habitXD

I still visit this forum to understand why it is I still visit this forum. ∑(='□'=)

The discussions are really interesting and it's a pretty active community that doesn't move too fast. Also like a lot of people have said I incorporate techniques discussed here into my own studies. (New poster, long time lurker.)

To procrastinate.

I like this forum because the user base is huge, but you don't get many idiots along for the ride. This is quite surprising because big forums usually deteriorate into pointless jabber.

Its also nice to talk to all these people that use the same method as myself. The moment you step out into the rest of the Japanese learning world you'll run into people that don't care or don't believe in Heisig/AJATT etc.

Jarvik7 Wrote:To procrastinate.

I view the RevTK forum as a thinktank for efficient Japanese learning resources. Its like a braintrust.

Oh...and to procrastinate.

Definitely to procrastinate.

Also to get new ideas and share resources.

Did I mention to procrastinate?

To hear how things are done in other countires. There are people from all over the world and occasionally I see "Here in (insert country here) we ...."

Always interesting.