About

Hello and welcome to Fluency Forge! My name is Josh, and I am a long-time learner of the Japanese language and the founder of Fluency Forge. Throughout my Japanese learning journey, I have used many different methods: consisting of books, courses, apps, and immersion-based approaches to learning. Despite acquiring a vast amount of knowledge about various Japanese learning systems, I feel that none of these approaches create an environment conducive to making consistent, holistic progress toward reaching a high level of proficiency in Japanese. The majority of the existing methods are too prescriptive in nature, forcing learners down a rigid learning path with few options for customization and exploration. I have always felt that these “one size fits all“ solutions fail to adequately account for variation in individual learning preferences and skill proficiencies. As a result, I wanted to develop a system that gives power back to learners, enabling them to take control of their learning however they see fit, without cutting any corners on learning material quality or features. Those core ideas inspired me to create Fluency Forge.

As advertised in the name, you will not find a “fluent in a week“ system at Fluency Forge but rather a collection of resources and tools to help you make incremental progress toward achieving your language learning goals. Each feature of Fluency Forge is designed to work together harmoniously as part of an integrated system. Through the regular use of our system over time, I believe you will see remarkable progress in your language abilities. While as of the time of this writing, we do not have all of our learning material prepared and available, I encourage you to give Fluency Forge a try and provide us with feedback as we continue to refine our app and content to best fit the needs of our users. Additionally, Fluency Forge is always open to discussing potential collaborative partnerships with experienced authors, influencers, and teachers involving adapting or creating new learning content for our platform. You can learn more about our creator program here. If you'd like to get in touch, feel free to use our contact form or join our Discord to reach out to me there.

Thanks!
Josh