Hey Ken awesome to have you back. I see you changed sites so can you add jta downloaded and the original JTA course to my area? As I was in those courses before. Your lessons are always beneficial! Thanks.

Hey Ken. I'm so glad to see you back! I found out about you during the time of your JTA platinum course, but at the time I couldn't bring about the money. I think It was about a year later that a new deal of some sort came out and I jumped on it. Honestly though, my timing was bad and I... didn't finish what I started. I'm back though and this time, with the support of you and the others here, I'll be able to reach my goal of speaking properly without sounding like a bumbling 2 year old.

I’ve followed you a long time ago when I was super young I’m excited to be apart of the community and learn fluent Japanese!

Hello! Look forward to the fun education :)

Happy to see you alive and well Ken. I missed this. I was also part of the original JTA course a few years ago.

My first time appearing but i remember following you at first a long time ago, and i'm glad you are taking the fight to life instead of letting it beat you, I've been struggling as well and i look forward to this journey in life and in learning Japanese.

So hey Ken!!!!
I haven't really commented or said anything before but since I'm part of the founder team now why not right?! Well first of all this JTA is such a wonderful idea and for a college student like myself I'm speechless. When you were listing the prices on the video I thought yep it's still gonna be like a $100 but $10!!!!!!
Even before now I always looked forward to your email and a remember when you send an email after so long I was literally yelling everywhere "He's Alive!!! Ken is alive" so people must have though I was crazy yes! But I was just excited and now I'm just as excited to be a part of the founder members and to finally learn fluent Japanese!!!!!

Hey Ken! I’m so excited to get things started with JTA Tsunami! I was a part of the original JTA course before it was shut down, and would love to access them lessons again.

Sweet back in action. I’m glad i did this again. Looking forward to learning everything I can while enjoying the community as well. Can’t wait to start interacting with others here as we go through this great journey together .

To Ken,
I am happy and excited to have this chance to learn once again from Ken. I want to say that I am thrilled to see that you are working through your obstacles and finding your way back to us. You have always put a smile on my face and given me the drive and desire to continue trying to learn Japanese.
To everyone else,
I want to thank all of you for believing and standing by Ken. I know that dealing with mental illness is difficult and that many people will look to the negative instead of trying to understand. My daughter is struggling with social anxiety and I have been healing from PTSD so I do understand how overwhelming life can be and to have the faith and support of others when you are at your highest and lowest can make all the difference in the world between choosing to live through it or allowing it to control you.
Ken you are such an inspiration to many people. Too many people give up because they lose their spark. You have been knocked down by life so many times. Always remember that we love you for your flaws way more than your perfections because if you never make a mistake, you never learn anything.
Much love
Leona

Well I'm Glad you're back Ken. Really excited and hope this new program works well.

I was part of the original JTA course but had to leave early, Japanese has been on the back burner since...which is way too long. Looking forward to being a part of the new community.

The Tsunami is exciting

My first time trying this. Hopefully this will benefit me. Japanesepod 101 just doesn't seem so good for me. If this works, I'll get my wife to join since we live in Japan

just got the email lol would have paid more to try my hand at this again. got stumped on lesson 5 and pretty much gave up lol.

Hey, Ken. Welcome back to the land of the living! You have our support. No matter your social issues, just know that you're still loved.

I'm so excited about you bring back the program! Thank you!!

damn i guess i was first at least first to comment anyways

Hey ken i just wanted to say that you make me want to really commit to learning Japanese.

This might be something a bit forward to ask as soon as I subscribed to this course, but I do want to have it known just in case, but where would I go to get a refund for this course, as you did promise a 90 day payback guarantee, so as someone who is kinda skeptical about a paid course like this, I want to make sure I have my back-up plan sorted, although I'm sure based on what I've read about in these comments that I wouldn't have to do that, but I always like to plan ahead for outcomes.

Hello, I've just joined as soon as I got home from work.
I work quite a lot during the week for someone as weak as me, and it's tiring. But I will do my best to keep up with these lessons on my days off and when I get off work.
I'm not the most punctual student, and earlier this year, I retook Japanese 1B at my local community college, paid over 200 bucks for my course, and still halfway through the semester I stopped showing up because I couldn't bother to keep up with the homework and dropped out altogether.
My studies in the language have pretty much halted.
But now, I'm fired up and ready to get in there. Looking in these comments now, I see people with the same motivations as me and it's bringing a warm feeling.
Again, I might not be able to keep up daily, but I hope to try my best.
Thank you, Mr. Cannon!

Hello and thank you for the opportunity! I am a subscriber of the newsletter since a long time and I always wanted to be part of JTA community and I am glad you want to revive your dream and here I am! I couldn't afford the yearly subscription because I am brazillian and the USD to BRL conversion is not a happy one. But from your long video explaining what this is all about and the fair monthly price you asked for you earned my trust and I hope to have a good time learning with you. I tried to self-study so many times and I always fail. Thank you and I am exciting to start!

Tried but failed to continue a while back..so I hope this time I'm more serious :) Let's do this KEN.

Woo! I am very excited for you and to start my own venture back into Japanese, I have been following you since I was 12.. I’m 19 now, so it’s been a LONG time coming, I know sometime during my high-school years I did buy one of your courses, life got in the way and I never really got to dive into it past the beginners stage, but for what it’s worth, back then I viewed you as a fantastic teacher and that hasn’t changed at all, it’s great to see you back, and I promise this time I will work hard during the lesson plan! Haha

I'm kind of excited on your behalf Ken. Seems like this one might be the best program yet.

Hi! Glad to see you're posting again. I was using your program before I left to go to Japan...was learning a little then you left...I was in Japan for a little over 4yrs and you were doing a little bit but then left completely. Lol, now I'm back in the states and here you are back again. Well, I did take some college beginners Japanese while I was there and it helped to actually use it with someone who spoke Japanese to help get the flow going and now that I'm not there I don't feel I have the resources to converse with someone to practice the language. It would be great if I could talk to my Japanese friends in their language but due to time differences and life it would be hard to coordinate.

So I had been on the mailing list the entire time, but this is the first time I actually joined. So it should be interesting to see if it actually works

Hey Ken, this is awesome! I'm super excited about the Kanji course. I managed to get through a couple hundred Kanji on WaniKani but its so hard to try to get through the huge amount needed before starting to read. Glad to see things are turning around!

Very glad to see you this happy again. Also, very excited to reinvigorate my Japanese studies. Life got in the way for me as well, as it does occasionally and I have not made much progress these last few years. Hoping to be more social with the community this time round and help this thing grow. ♡

hey Ken there was one little question i wanted to ask about being a founder member if i have to cancel because i aint got the money for it which may very well be the case at the end of this month will i still have my founder benefits when i rejoin in about idk 7-8 months i'm currently in College without a job but if joining now truly meant that i get founder benefits for life i couldn't not join now because otherwise i get the feeling i'd never be able to join because your courses are usually so expensive

Hey, I was just wondering where I could access the Kanji course that was promised? I cant seem to find it on the current website.

I wonder if my comment might have been missed since it was a reply to a reply (might not give a notice?)

I wanted to check if there where new videos on JTA Downloaded since last time I logged on, but couldn't seem to find the page. I tried http://jtadownloaded.kajabi.com/dashboard which was linked in my old emails, but just got a "We can’t connect to the server". Is it the wrong address or is it currently down?
Can I still access the material somewhere? =)

Anime is a great learning tool (why I even got this course, haha), but as I self-studied, I realized that dramas can also be really great at reinforcing Japanese conversation points and grammar and vocab. Though I know this is Japanese Through ANIME and not Drama, inserting a few lessons here and there when applicable using a drama (Hana Yori Dango?) would be a pleasant surprise.

Will the old JTA also be uploaded here? Last I checked it still wasn't finished, but I wouldn't mind it being shared with the other founders, even though it wasn't completed. It was still very good learning segments =)
I have my One Piece manga still, and might look into getting more of the set too.

I am Super Extremely Excited for this! I did a little happy dance when I found out you were starting this.

Kanji..I know I need it..but I need someone to sit me down and slap me with kanji. . Learning on my own is a downfall..a class environment is the only way I learn....teaaachh me sensei!

Yooooo I'm so excited and so happy that you're doing this!! So happy that I get to be a part of the rebirth of JTA!! Thank you for helping me keep my dream of learning Japanese alive haha! Ken you da best we love yooouuu!

Great lesson thanks!

Very nice lesson. I had a lot of fun this time.

Interesting start, subbed to crunchyroll too so that I can watch more anime :).

Noticed choujin shakai was incorrectly labelled chojin shakai at one point, so watch out for that. I hate romaji and would much prefer kana, but I get why it's helpful to beginners! I'd appreciate furigana with the kanji.

Also, I quite liked the skits, but can we have a bit more variery. I'm done with gags about your 'kosei' already!

Hey Saleh here from Kuwait 🇰🇼, yoroshiku onegai shimasu, minna-san !!

I would consider myself intermediate, been watching anime for more than 6-7 years, but I know nothing of kanji, basically at baby level when it comes to that haha.

I remember when I stumbled across your site years back, I couldn’t subscribe before as I didn’t have a credit card back in “koukou sei”, but now that I am in “daigaku” I can support you and enjoy learning Japanese!!

I’m going to watch the intermediate level video now, but the pacing for the beginner was good, keep up the good work ken.

Just started and I'm loving the video. Im going go watch the show now. Btw just kinda randomly started your program.

Thank you.

I like the paper better than whiteboard because it makes you fast like a ninja - just like your ninja haircut haha. Great video!

I actually like that there's no hiragana/katakana, it forces us to memorize the kanji. But that's just me c:

SOOOOO HAPPY!!!!!!

In lessons, I think it'd be nice to have hirigana/furigana up too for all of the sentences and words

このレッスンをやさしすぎるよ。 :p

this was so awesome to go through!!! though, i did have to repeat the public lesson lol

Sorry if I repeat anything that anyone else has mentioned.
The best thing about the lesson was watching you as it was quite obvious that your shine and sparkle has returned. I could see how excited you are for this new project and that was heartwarming.
May I suggest that in the beginner lessons you have romaji, kana, and kanji in the cards and that for the intermediate you drop the romaji, and in the advanced you drop the kana.
I would also ask that you repeat or add the sentence translation at the end. There were a few new words and when you added a new sentence structure you explained everything but dropped the actual translation. I guessed at the meaning and would have liked a way to check to see if I was correct.
Also, one small error. In the video with Hitobito wo mamoru you said "you're saving the peoples," instead of you're protecting the peoples.
You may want to slow down the speed a little for the beginner section as sometimes it is hard to pick up the nuances and the pronunciation when your ear is getting used to the language.
One last comment, are you going to be putting together lesson notes to go along with the lessons?

I forgot a lot of the Japanese that I learned before and this was kind of a refresher course with new words but I enjoyed the way it was taught. I just have to remember what the words means but overall it was. I agree with Eduardo that it would be helpful to watch part of the anime that uses the phrase or words. I think it would help out more.

Ken, I tried replying to your reply but there isn't a send button, so I cut and pasted it here:

Actually, I could concentrate better if it were a littler lower in volume. I think the music is great when you perform your skits and antics; it complements your "quirky" personality. I think I can focus more on you and the lesson with no background music during the actual teaching session. You have excellent content and structure in your lesson plans and I don't want you to second guess that or take away from your creativity. It's quite possible that the other students have a totally different opinion or experience than me. BTW, if you need a whiteboard, email me directly, I'd be glad to send a Western Union your way to contribute to the cause.

What a bad ass setup...RV, Internet connectivity, and the open road. Well, not so much, rather squatting in an old folks home; like John Ritter and Susan Summers in the 70s for cheap rent. I'll trade places with you though.

Quick question! Is it also okay to end the sentence with "desu" (です) instead of だ

It might be helpful to repeat all of the written words in English as I need it to be reinforced in my mind, and it might help me to remember for the future.

I shared my opinions on the community area, but I will listen my suggestions here as well, so it can be more readable:

(1) There should be a leveling lesson. Get everyone in the same base and structures of the japanese language.

(2) It would be cool to watch parts of the anime where the sentences are pulled off, so that we can get the feeling of an actual japanese actor and so we can listen to different ones saying the same sentences or adjust to hearing anime voices and then your own voice.

(3) it would also be great to have the subtitles in japanese, so we can actually match the voice speed with the required reading speed.

Enjoyed this lesson without background music to distract me. I'm having to start over again, so I consider myself at Novice level with many of the basics unlocking from memory as the lessons progress. As one of the New Founding Fathers, we will Purge English from our language. Heh heh heh. Not sure if anyone got that stupid joke or not.

I'm still not quite sure how Facebook helps if I could just post stuff here in the comment section.

I just wanted to say that I should be an intermediate, I think, but these anime specific words are new to me and I'm not sure if I'm going to remember them unless I start watching that anime. It's like the original JTA was the Naruto course, JTA Downloaded was the One Piece course and this seems to be the Boku no Hero Academia course, I guess? So now I know what anime I should probably watch next.

I think it would also help if you put the vocabulary and grammar concepts in the description of the video. That would make it so much easier for me to quickly review them without having to watch the whole video again.

I Just thought of a horrible star wars joke using chou. "What would you not want to call Chewbacca? Chou baka"

Just a small thing ken, when a lesson is done there’s a button that says complete, which makes it sound like you need to click it to complete the lesson. Obviously that’s not the case, it’s supposed to let you know that the lesson is *completed* so I’d recommend maybe changing it to say so? I’ve clicked it more than once already in confusion. Thanks Ken