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!

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.

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).

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

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

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