I’m only around 20 videos in but this YouTube channel seems to be great for learning Japanese additionally to using WaniKani.
You definitely do need an additional source to learn grammar. WankiKani is only for kanji and vocabulary. As said above, I do recommend the Genki books for beginners as well. And ffor immersion, watch any Japanese media you can get hold of. Or listen to Japanese music.
“Decoding sentences” is the best way to put it. I also have loads of trouble with this. How do you improve in decoding? What works well for you?
Am also worse at katakana than hiragana 
(that’s a smiley but I’m actually sad lol)
When I started learning, I reached to about season 4 of TextFugu, which I think just covers the basics of all the parts of speech, then I learned exclusively through questions posted in WaniKani forums or the LearnJapanese subreddit, or by searching the Imabi website for specific grammar points when I wanted clarification. Then I took a tutor and went through specific grammar points for the JLPT, but most of what I learned is through the Internet. Thank you random strangers who were kind enough to post detailed comments on noob questions.
Hashtags work on wanikani?! SINCE WHEN?!
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You could either:
Get the Genki textbooks, skip the vocab learning parts, and complete all the tasks on your own, looking up the vocab when needed. (they’re meant for a classroom setting, thus contain group exercises, but you can play all roles of a conversation yourself.)
Read Tae Kim’s guide, then use the corresponding Bunpro exercise to practice each grammatical property one by one,
Or learn just the basics and look up specific properties in Tae Kims guide once you encounter them in text somewhere.
I started with Human Japanese. Really liked its explanation for the sentence structure of の, but am now focused on learning every property with Tae Kim and Bunpro, hoping that Bunpro will have N4 exercises by the time I get there.
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#lol #omg #wtf
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Purchased Genki and the associated workbook. Once it gets here, I am going right into it! Seen a suggestion of 30 minutes a day, so I will probably just do that with it
I am almost constantly watching anime (subbed mostly) xD I am pretty big into video games to, and I am looking forward to the day that I can purchase non translated manga and play my games in Japanese as well.
I have Tae Kim’s guide on my iPhone, but it seems like he kinda stopped part way through. I was looking at his youtube videos that are associated with the guide and they just seem to stop. Does the written portion seem to have a definite completion?
And even the vocabulary that WaniKani teaches is not core vocabulary. It’s just whatever vocab is related to the kanji being taught. I use iKnow.jp for core vocab.
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Thank you, internet stranger! I am gathering so many resources from just this one question thread
I think this might interest you: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196861017/fist-of-the-north-star-innovative-ebook
Wow, that was actually pretty awesome! I wish I had the money to back this enough to receive one. Maybe in the future xD
You lose nothing by trying it now 
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I never got on the kickstarter hype train But I really thought this one could be my first. Too bad they only ship to the US.
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absolutely brilliant
I’m kind of hoping to purchase it when I could realistically be able to read it though :T