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I know it's almost a given, but I'd prefer the clarity. Thanks for doing this!",{"value":64,"source":50,"evidence":65},"Book is paid; the same material is available with a free starter online account",[66],{"id":53},{"value":68,"source":50,"evidence":69},"Founders needed a way to learn Japanese and turned the project into a product",[70],{"id":53},[],"paid","launched","team",{"praise":76,"objections":97,"requests":120,"questions":139,"alternatives":159},[77,89],{"value":78,"source":79,"evidence":80},"Good physical book design and layout","commenter",[81,85],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"32471264","innocentoldguy","I like the format and colors in your book. Well done! I believe this would have been helpful to me at the beginning of my Japanese studies. I do have some questions, if you don't…",{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"32470373","drconti","I've studied out of most of the well-known Japanese textbooks, and yours looks really promising. You've even added a new learning mechanic with the English paragraph containing…",{"value":90,"source":79,"evidence":91},"Kanji embedded in English sentences is an interesting idea",[92,96],{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},"32470554","iandanforth","Kanji embedded into English sentences is an interesting idea.",{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},[98,105,109,113],{"value":99,"source":79,"evidence":100},"Content is heavy on kanji, light on vocabulary and examples, and not beginner-friendly",[101],{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"32471071","teraflop","First of all, congrats on launching a product. Without having ordered the book, here are my comments on your website: The signup page asks me to enter an email address, and says…",{"value":106,"source":79,"evidence":107},"No author credentials shown",[108],{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},{"value":110,"source":79,"evidence":111},"Signup email verification does not work",[112],{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},{"value":114,"source":79,"evidence":115},"Prices not listed on the site",[116],{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"32472274","xingped","Between your book and your course on your website, I must say I'm pretty disappointed that no prices are listed anywhere unless you go to a stripe checkout page.",[121,132],{"value":122,"source":79,"evidence":123},"Comparison with Genki",[124,128],{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"32470651","haunter","Looks very nice! 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As a Japanese major who studied a lot second language acquisition and did some empirical language learning research for my masters, I'm interested…",{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},"32470405","CiceroCiceronis","This looks very interesting. Can you give a brief overview of the fundamental shifts in methodology that underlie your novel method, and justifications for why these are likely…",{"value":156,"source":79,"evidence":157},"How does it differ from Genki?",[158],{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},[160,171,176,182],{"value":161,"source":79,"evidence":162},"Minna no Nihongo",[163,167],{"id":164,"by":165,"text":166},"32471467","elldoubleyew","I started studying Japanese in 2020 with 「みんなの日本語」(Minna no Nihongo). The book is entirely in Japanese and only assumes that you can read hiragana\u002Fkatakana and have access to a…",{"id":168,"by":169,"text":170},"32471812","ziddoap",">I started studying Japanese [...] assumes that you can read hiragana\u002Fkatakana Can you explain how this works? 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