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

Last edited by hknamida (2009 September 12, 10:41 am)

Sebastian wrote:

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

One for Japanese people learning Japanese, in Japanese?

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)

Something I wrote to ファブリス a little while back (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...

Last edited by mafried (2009 September 12, 12:37 pm)

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.

Last edited by cracky (2009 September 12, 1:55 pm)

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.

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

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.)

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.

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

Oh...and 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.