Show HN: Learn Japanese through classic short stories

Re:Show HN: Learn Japanese through classic short stories by fizzbatter on Monday August 01, 2016 @09:42AM (#12202275)

This is nifty. For absolute beginners, do you[1] recommend any resources?

Though, the pricing confuses me a bit. It mentions ¥1,000/month for all content, is that a comma in the American sense (¥1000), or a decimal (¥1)? Apparently in USD, that is ~$150 vs $0.15.. one is insanely expensive _(in my opinion)_, the other is insanely cheap. Pardon my ignorance :)

[1]: You, being the author.. or anyone i suppose.

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Re:Show HN: Learn Japanese through classic short stories by njrc9 on Monday August 01, 2016 @08:45PM (#12207158)

Thanks for taking a look at it –

Regarding resources for absolute beginners, I haven’t read it myself, but this book [1] takes a similar approach to my site, but since it has full English translations of the text it seems like it could be useful to beginners (however, it looks like you still need to understand basic grammar and vocabulary).

As to pricing, the comma is in the American sense. So that would make it about $10/month.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-into-Japanese-Literature-Cla...

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Re:Show HN: Learn Japanese through classic short stories by fizzbatter on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @02:19PM (#12211938)

$10/m? I must have really messed something up. I somehow got $150/m o_O. $10/m is much more reasonable, thank you

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