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Originally Posted by Columbine
The creator obviously knows some Japanese
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That is not apparent to me.
I was there about two minutes, kept seeing errors, and quit looking. And the support staff had this to say to me
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Most of the content is reviewed by a person who speaks Japanese
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Note that says "most," not "all." This implies some is reviewed by no Japanese speakers for any definition of "speaker."
It suffices to say that the site is not trustworty. I'll change it to "speaks Japanese well" though.
Also, Tae Kim is not a native Japanese speaker and doesn't speak it natively (as per his personal blog). But his written Japanese is indistinguishable from a native's at my level of Japanese. Regardless, what he purports to teach is well within his abilities to do, regardless of whether he speaks at a native level. But his site is still eminently trustworthy.
Heck, I'm not a native speaker, but I can still teach many Japanese lessons and be 99–100% accurate. Speakingwise is a different matter. Get to around third-year Japanese at a US university and it would be harder for me. I'd imagine MMM and Nyororin could teach a full four years of written Japanese. I don't know if they have non-native accents that could hinder their speaking instruction, but their writing is excellent. If either of them had a Japanese teaching site, I would likely trust it. But by their own admission, neither speaks natively or at a native level.