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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz
As someone who likely knows more Japanese than you (I don't know you, so I have to infer from the circumstances) and more experience learning the language as well, I strongly suggest you completely excise romaji from the site. All it does is hurt learners: they'll subconsciously keep looking at the romaji to check if they're reading it correctly, and this is something that is drastically detrimental to learning the language.
You should know kana within a week of studying Japanese, and pretty much nothing other than "dog" and "cat" on that list should be encountered in that first week.
Edit: Just wanted to say again that I think your heart's in the right place, and you seem like a good dude.
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I wholeheartedly agree with this, romaji is nothing more than a crutch. And it needs to be disposed of as quickly as possible. I started learning Japanese my 3rd year in college as an elective course, and my teacher (native Japanese) did us all the great service of making us have all the hiragana memorized within a few weeks of the start of the course. Any good teacher (whether teaching majors, minors, or curious elective takers) will know that having students depend on romaji is no way to help them on their Japanese learning journey.
And no offense to the site is intended here, especially considering you are not college professors, nor are you pretending to be.