Where to go after finishing Rosetta Stone?

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Good afternoon WaniKani Community,

I started my Japanese journey on January 1st as a New Year’s Resolution. That might be a little corny, but I wanted to go from wide-eyed foreigner Anime/Manga/Culture enthusiast to someone who could engage at a more native level.

I started with Rosetta Stone, which seems to be basically hated on the internet as being overly expensive, formal, and not overall helpful. A couple months in I added Duolingo - also frequently dunked on - as a way to pickup Hiragana and Katakana (which is worked wonderfully, for the record). Once I realized that Kanji were preventing me from doing meaningful reading practice, I added WaniKani as well. This has all been really fun and enjoyable, and I keep wanting to learn more - which is where I’ve hit a snag.

I’m coming to the end of what Rosetta stone has available for me to do. My scheduled plan is over, and the additional lessons have to be taken at my own pace. So where do I go from here? What would take my Beginner+/Intermediate- knowledge and keep me going? I don’t think I have the dedication to sit down with text books on my own. Bonus points if the program you recommend has structure similar to Rosetta Stone or WaniKani where I know what to do and how much to do each day.

I also have no strong conjugation skills for Japanese, so something that helps with that would also be amazing.

tl;dr I’ve run out of Rosetta Stone and need new resources to use. Please help!

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I used Miku’s Real Japanese Shadowing Course to get familiar with useful conjugations and phrases.

It’s not perfect and not cheap, and in the end I just put the effort in to download all of the audio tracks and put them in my podcast app rather than use the website or the app, but I did come away from it with a much better ability to listen to and speak the language. Plus it allowed me turn my 10hr / week commute in to useful Japanese learning.

There’s a free section to see if it’s for you.

[Insert my usual read / listen / watch lecture here]

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Dunk all you like, but there were weeks when that stupid streak number was the only reason I did any Japanese studying at all. Duo knows what it’s doing.

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Thanks for the tip! I’ll definitely look into it and see if it looks right for me. The one thing I don’t want to do is lose any momentum.

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Nihongo con teppei podcasts for beginners, tori for vocabulary and bunpo for grammar (according to recommendations from others, although I have not personally used the bunpo app myself).

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