Hey has anyone heard of ReadJapaneseFast

[ThomasHunter]

Hey guys ReadJapaneseFast what do you think of it?

A friend told me about it he said it works, do any of you now?

[QuackingShoe]

The principle that you should 'read to read' (instead of 'learn and then read') outlined on there is entirely true, but it's something you can do on your own without the help of some program. And if one is only interested in it for the kanji themselves, there are http://kanji.koohii.com/learnmore.php better uses of your time and money.
Personal opinion, of course.

[Belton]

Not until you posted here.

And I don't think much of the site that sells it.

I'm afraid his site does not scream quality to me. It needs some proof reading for spelling and could do with a designer.
So I wonder about the quality of the material he's selling.
Not that you see much by way of example.
Googling the previous incarnation turns up a lot of ad sites.
I wouldn't part with money for it. I shouldn't give it the google juice by writing about it.

I notice a couple of things in the blurb.
It's *start* reading in 30 days. (I never really trust stuff that gives a time frame like that either)
It has a subset of kanji. 400. maybe the most common but possibly not enough really if you have hopes of reading newspapers, books, manga.
1000 word vocabulary. ditto. Doesn't seem that many. and yet to completely master and retain 30 or so new words a day in 30 days/ 60 hours is fast to me.
And learn grammar in situ.
I don't think so. Not from scratch.

The example email is missing common kanji that would have been used if a Japanese person had written it. Also it doesn't sound very authentic. It's text-booky in my opinion. I'm not sure when I would have been at a point of amazement about reading it.
It's nothing remotely like the email I get or blogs I see.

If you have any kind of common sense and ability to research forums you could do a lot for free.
I'm pretty sure it'll take longer than 30 days.
Even the most enthusiastic and hardworking people I've seen don't make that claim.

[Javizy]

I haven't heard of this, but some Patron Saint of Nihongo could easily make an excellent reading application that contains a commonly used word for every reading of every daily use character, contained in or accompanied by one or more example sentences, with an anki-style review system. With this as a base, it could be extended to become the easiest, fastest, and most organised way to learn to read Japanese ever. It's quite an obvious idea, but feel free to steal it and implement it (preferably as desktop and iPhone versions that can be synced ), if you can be bothered. I'll pay up to $10 for it in the iTunes Store

[Elfunko]

Either you are talking about true rapid reading, where you try to extract the most info in the shortest time. 速読 More than a few books on the subject, amazon.co.jp it

Or you are talking about just being able to read in general, understand kanji and how to read them. And for that you simply need to read. No program is necessary, and you might not even need to purchase anything. Here in San Diego we got Lighthouse, YuYu, two or three publications from Los Angeles that are free bi-weekly. They got news, real life, stories, etc all inside, free reading material to practice on. Then get books you are interested in. I am a war-planes buff and enjoy WWII air combat stories, read such stories as Robert Johnson and Erich Hartmann, so I got myself Sakai Saburo's (last then first j-style name) 大空のサムライ　thats a two parter. It's definately interesting, and as of the beginning him talking about childhood, extremely easy to read.

But ya, spend time reading to understand, but also spend time just flowing through a text word after word because it exposes you to 1000 times more kanji, grammar, etc. You won't understand, but you'll recognize, and eventually when you learn it you'll say, "Ohhhh, thats what that meant!" cause you already saw it 15 times while you were reading but didn't understand. That's reading to read to me...