Having said that, this is probably the best, and most readable, guide I’ve come across, and to be honest it’s all the better for pushing the readers to avoid laziness.

I should also give my thanks, the guide has given me the structure and motivation I need to try and learn this language and get it crossed off my bucket list

Since then I don’t see much a use for romaji. In fact I deliberately try to avoid places that use excessive amounts of romaji over kana to avoid falling into bad habits. I only used romaji to help me learn kana. After that I did not really need it anymore.

Plus multiple problems can occur if someone relies on romaji too much. For example 「づ」　is often in romaji as just “zu” when is reality it should have a faint “d” sound at the start. 　「つ」 is sometimes in romaji as “tu” if you rely on romaji too much you may get confused and literally pronounce it as “tu”. Same can be said for other characters such as the particle 「を」 and of course the “r” sounds 「る、ろ、れ、ら」 and the カタカナ equivalents. The “r” sound does not sound exactly like the “r” in English so someone could end up falling in bad habits if they rely on romaji.

Of course you might eventually correct yourself. However if you already fell into the bad habit of pronouncing it that way it makes it all the harder to correct yourself when trying to speak and learn the language.

Plus being illiterate will just make it harder to learn vocabulary. Sure, you learned your native language and could probably speak it fairly well while still being illiterate. However you where surrounded 24/7 with it almost non-stop.

So unless you live in a household with people physically speaking Japanese around you it is going to be much harder to learn being illiterate. It will probably still take longer even if that was the case.

When learning English, one should try to think like an English speaker. When learning Japanese, one should try to think like a Japanese speaker. If Japanese people learned all English words by converting them to kana, there would be a problem. And Japanese keyboards have kana on them, so they don’t need romaji to input characters. I originally tried to learn Japanese using a romaji guide, which was ignorant. I hid from the Japanese language, and it took me a year to give it another try. I suppose you could say that telling people to learn English using an alphabet is elitist?

If you want to learn Japanese, try to change your outlook on language so you can understand it; don’t try and change Japanese so you can understand it.

if you’re trying to learn something new(Japanese) than why are you afraid of learning something new (kana, kanji… which are uh.. also Japanese)?

…of course if you aren’t seriously trying to learn than why are you posting criticism of a website that teaches you how to learn? you ought to stick to your ’50 dirty things to say in Japanese’ pamphlets.