# Getting into immersion as a beginner? **URL:** \ **Category:** Japanese Language\ **Created:** [September 4, 2019, 3:50am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/getting-into-immersion-as-a-beginner/38780 "2019-09-04T03:50:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Saruko](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/saruko/32/218818_2.png) [@Saruko](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Saruko)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 1:30pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/getting-into-immersion-as-a-beginner/38780/7 "2019-09-04T13:30:38Z")
> [@Jiggly\_Jellyfish](#): > > And for speaking, is it worth doing Pimsleur or something similar? Or should I just talk to people in Japanese. I’m in a discord where you can talk to people in Japanese but the problem is I dont know enough yet to really have a conversation. So should I be learning some more grammar somewhere else? If you have the capacity to add something else to your study routine, I’d recommend Pimsleur. Genki is fine for beginner grammar, and Pimsleur would reinforce that with more listening and speaking (something self-learners sometimes have a hard time getting enough of). If you do the writing exercises from the back of Genki and look up additional vocab that’s relevant to your life, by the time you finish Genki 1 you should have more that enough grammar to hold simple conversations, so that might be a good time to try jumping into the discord group. There’s Pimsleur thread here, too: > [@Pimsleur support group](https://community.wanikani.com/t/pimsleur-support-group/34196): > > Hi, I’ve been getting these CDs from the local library, and am over halfway through Pimsleur 1. I don’t get through a lesson a day, because, well, life’s not that simple. Is anyone else listening to these CDs? I’d love to have people keep each other accountable here. Right now, I’ve settled on Pimsleur and WK as the two resources I have time to invest in. I dabble at others in my spare moments, but really, haven’t been able to commit to anything like Genki. But a commitment is only as goo… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.wanikani.com/t/getting-into-immersion-as-a-beginner/38780)._