皆さん、こんにちは！Coming to the end of WaniKani’s first tier of levels has given me plenty of pieces to play with when making sentences. I really want to start acquiring more grammar so I can get further into immersion learning and interacting with with the fine folks on here! I’ve been around long enough to have seen the typical/popular resources like Genki, Bunpro, Tae Kim’s, etc. I’m far from against using these, but just wanted to cast a line to see if there were any really good things I might’ve missed floating around out there!
What grammar resources work best for you and why?
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In my experience getting different explanations of the same grammar form multiple sources can help if it’s something you struggle with but you may want to just find something that works and start cracking through it soon. Genki is tried and true and I’m working through it now to refresh myself. I enjoy cure dolly’s videos on grammar but the robot voice can be a little grating to get used to. MaruMori (paid) is useful because all of its grammar points are modular, so they do build on each other but I like their style of splitting up lessons into approachable small pieces. I haven’t used renshuu but it’s completely free and has grammar resources.
I recommend trying to read something as native material even if it’s graded readers for now, it reinforces the kanji you know and exposes you to the new ones you will learn later at the same time. You’ll be surprised how quickly you can go from seeing strange symbols to reading if you keep trying it.
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Cure Dolly was important in getting me off the ground from 0, and then Genki and Bunpro helped me expand my knowledge from there.
みんなの日本語 and Tae Kim are alternative grammar resources, but I haven’t used them so can’t comment positively or negatively.
Game Gengo also some videos. Once you’re at a non-zero level, his N5/N4/N3 complete videos/playlists are good for getting examples of grammar and filling in any your textbook may have missed, but at the very 0 level, he also has playlists ordering his content in line with the Genki textbook which is a more reasonable order than in his giant rollup videos for a complete beginner.
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Thank you, I’ll give those a look! and yes, it feels so satisfying to be able to sit down and realize you can work your way through fully Japanese paragraphs, even if they are curated for your level.
Thank you for your recommendations!