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
The written portion does indeed go on (he actually has a book for it), while the videos cut off fairly early. I think his guide goes to around N4, though some grammar points are kinda borderline between N4 and N3.
I was having this debate recently with someone and it seems to me that one is never ready until they’re neck deep in the brown stuff. That’s the way I look at these things usually, as I’ve noticed that the most progress tends to be made for me when I either have to sink or swim. If you don’t think you’re ready, I’d recommend you do it. It’s when you think you’re ready that you’re in trouble. Take that as you would .
Besides, if you look at the beginner book club thread, you’ll see that at least the first chapter is available legally, for free, from the publisher’s website. Given that we are considering doing a chapter per week, you can give it a shot, and if you can’t keep up, you would’ve lost only time (which isn’t a loss given that you would have learnt at least one thing: you would have a better understanding of what, specifically, you need to work on) .
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Hi @BurgerMeanie, given that you are very early in your Wanikani journey and many people complain about how slow it is at the beginning, now is the best time to start learning grammar. I have used Genki and found the accompanying CD to be really helpful.
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