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.
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.
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).