[KyleGoetz]

Originally Posted by murasaki11

Instead of bashing the website maybe we should help point out the errors to them.

I'm not bashing them. I'm telling noobs not to use the site. There's a difference. Your suggestion would essentially be to encourage people to use a site that is known to have shoddy pedagogical standards.

Building a website is hard and I must say that website has the most information I've seen. They are trying.

I don't want a teacher who tries. I want a teacher who teaches me correct information.

Why bash them when we can help them.

Because I don't want to help a site that is trying to teach Japanese and doing a poor job. I want to tell people to avoid it.

Its not like its a horrible website.

Wrong.

Those errors were just little mistakes.

A lot of little mistakes add up to a big mistake.

Missing a second letter.

Or, you know, completely misspelling "chiitaa" as "cheeta," e.g.

The site didn't seem to follow the "oo change to "ou" rule. Which in romaji, there isn't really rules because its romaji.

Which is precisely another reason the site is crap.

Their website does say that a lot of it is under construction.

Good for them. Do you want to learn from a textbook that is still being edited?

The person who made the website must know a lot about Japanese because a lot of information is there.

Not true.

Spelling mistakes indicate that they just typed it wrong.

Not when a large percentage of words have spelling mistakes. It indicates the person making the site does not speak Japanese to any degree necessary to teach it.