Hi! I hope you’re having a good day! I wanted to ask you if you use any books to learn Japanese. If you do, can you tell me which books you use or recommend something. I’ll take care to check all the books you recommend. Also, I am a beginner. I know how to introduce myself, can read hiragana and ka…

I used the first Japanese From Zero! book, which helped me learn how to write hiragana. My soul started getting cramped from all the writing though, so I gave up on continuing (I have all the rest of the books, plus Kanji From Zero!. Maybe I’ll refer to them at some point for the grammar alone. I ju…

While i myself do not use any textbooks the most commonly used textbooks are the genki text books and heisigs remembering the kanji from what i have heard if you want any help learning kanji you should grab the free kanji pdf from japanese pod 101 that pdf is quite useful

Oh yeah that kanji book that teaches radicals is pretty good. I grabbed that when I used JapanesePod101 like a year ago.

It is also worth getting the pdf for taekims guide to japanese for learning grammar that one can also be found for free

Yeah and there are apps you can get that have it too, I have it on my Android phone. Good stuff!

I am currently using Genki I. It is quite nice, but whenever I do not understand a specific point, I refer to Tae Kim’s Grammar Guide. :blush:

Not a book, but I recommend Organic Japanese with Cure Dolly on Youtube for learning grammar. She has the best explanations of how Japanese grammar works that I’ve encountered.

Goes to show that there are many resources that can be found online

Agreed totally on this. In fact I have the link to her “Japanese from Scratch” series: Japanese from scratch: the game-changing course in organic Japanese - YouTube I didn’t understand the difference between は and が before stumbling onto her chan. I can recommend a few more channels that are geare…

i use ‘japanese from zero’ book series and ‘Genki’. the first one is like an hyperprotective parent that treats you like a child. it feeds you little by little so you won’t choke with food, it blow on the food so you won’t get burned by it and when you are climbing a stairs it grabs your hand and he…

Are you using books (textbooks or any learning book) to learn Japanese

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