Is there a way of going back to the beginning on Automagic? I see someone asked a similar question two years ago and the answer was that you were trying to come up with a better solution. I started the Japanese course a few weeks ago and then couldn’t find it for a while. I’d only listened to it once to get an idea of what it was like so I remember nothing of the words taught and as I was just listening I didn’t even try to say them. I’ve just found it again but it starts me off where I finished listening before and when I try to revisit it just plays the same phrase over and over …
Doesn’t look like you can (yet!) Have a look at this thread Belts - #2 by Deborah-SSi
You’re in luck - we’re releasing (or have just released?) a new Japanese course today so switching to that one will put you back in the beginning 
So with impeccable timing, it seems I started the Japanese course 3 days before it was decommissioned. 
Logic tells me I should switch to the new course, but I’m not sure how logical I’m feeling about my 3 days of progress. 
But seriously, great job, guys. Your hard work is appreciated.
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Thanks Cetra …
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arigatou Kai san ,
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Yes, you guys seem to work fast! I’m not sure how much time I can spare for Japanese at the moment, but I like the look of the new course from the first few phrases at least - (1) the romanised written text instead of the hiragana suits me though I’m sure others will be disappointed. (2) One thing I felt was useful was the little bit of commentary on the language (rather than Aran’s pervasive jollying, which I find switches me instantly away from the target language, and straight back to an English mind-set) relating to the limited use of “anata” and “watashi” (3) I don’t like the deliberate separation of the “wa” suffix of “watashiwa” and “anatawa” especially as pronounced by the male speaker, though I can see why you might want to do that for ease of learning.
(4) I think you’re probably going to build up more slowly to the longer utterances, and I hope that’s true.
Anyway, very thank you for all the improvements and I hope there’ll be enough more of them.
And.. will they soon be spilling over into the Chinese course? I’d feel more comfortable with pinyin in terms of sometimes having to work out what’s actually being said - I’ve got enough of a grasp of the characters to have been able to work out that the sentence which includes both “yi bian” and “yi dian” has two different words rather than the same word repeated, but it would be comforting to have a fully phonetic-ish representation of what’s being said.
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