Betelgeuzah wrote:

That said some people are the opposite. They enjoy understanding. They enjoy effortless production and immersion. They enjoy the constant feedback that eyes can see- that they are learning something new. They find value in getting 90% of words right in Anki and then going out there to the wild and witness all that they have come to understand. They don't particularly enjoy the opposite- not understanding, not being able to produce the language. It is frustrating especially when practically everything they come across is that kind of material in the beginning.

Steve Kaufmann touches upon that in his interview with Stephen Krashen. Some people just can't move to native reading materials when they only understand say 40% of the content, instead they need to understand ~80%.

tokyostyle wrote:

Stansfield123 wrote:

Laughable.

To quote David Duchovny playing Hank Moody, "NAILED IT!"

You don't have enough experience learning Japanese to be giving a definitive opinion and the advice of "all you need is these two free materials" is so misleading.  If you dislike the ideas given at JALUP and AJATT then take that up with them.

If I understand troll speak correctly, your answer to my question is zero. That's how many foreign languages you have learned so far. Mine is a number other than zero. That makes me infinitely more qualified to judge what is and what isn't a good language learning resource.