Looking for VERY beginer Japanese books to hello adapting to learn fluent japanese

Hello everyone I am looking for some very basic (cheap if possible) japanese books to help me adapt and continue learning to become fluent in Japanese. I have hiragana and katakana memorized, very little kanji (working on that currently) I am also looking for a good resource to learn the meaning of new words outside of sources like; Google, busu, Duolingo picture translate etc… Any help and guidance would be greatly appreciated.

あエイがとうございます!

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Welcome!

There’s a big thread on resources here: The Ultimate Additional Japanese Resources List!

As for meaning of new words, usually I use Jisho.org dictionary.

For cheap books, I think if you want to save money it can help to browse secondhand books rather than new. I don’t really have any advice for which book exactly, but the Genki series and Minna no Nihongo series is quite popular for beginners.

I also had experience with Minato which have pretty good basics for free, but you’ll have to check if it’s available in your country.

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I read a ton of free graded readers at this site. Start with level 0 and work your way up. (You can change the interface to English at the top right hand side of the page).

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I second that!

also has a lot of easy and free manga

There’s also great

and

these YouTube channels which you can read and listen at the same time!

I would also recommend giving a look to

Granted, unlike the previous resources, it’s not free, but it is arguably the best resource to start reading – and it does have free articles as well!

Anyway, best of luck with your studies! wricat

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I will be sure to check all of these out! thank you everyone this community is awesome and everyone has been great so far!

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Also fyi they recently made it so their Japanese instruction apps Human Japanese are now included in the Satori subscription!

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