Tae Kim is Korean

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We have a discussion about it here:

A small rant about Tae Kim's Guide

I regularly see Tae Kim’s guide suggested, and hearing it recently implied to be always or almost always correct kind of triggered me to write this, which I wanted to make my own post. To start with an external somewhat authoritative force, the creator of Imabi posted this on r/LearnJapanese: One quality that the creator of Tae Kim lacks which I’ve embraced for quite a lot time has been humility, and I believe it serves as the core difference between our philosophies and the stance of vetera…

@Vanilla

All beginner resources have to do is provide knowledge that will get you breaking down sentences on your own so input becomes more comprehensible at the start.

I don’t disagree, but I also think that better resources have come out in the years since TK’s guide were written and they haven’t been getting as much exposure as they should.

And I also think it’s time to rethink our recommendations to new learners so that they can take advantage of our experiences.

I’ve been guilty myself of parroting the popular wisdom, but I just took a look at Pomax’s Guide and it’s pretty good and I’d never heard of it before.

I mean, I get the notion that “it was good enough for me so it should be good enough for you”, but I think I’d rather say “it was good enough for me years ago but here’s something better that’s come along since”.