study using Minna no nihongo

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1. Learn to read hiragana and katakana before using minna no nihongo.

2. I have no idea what the Minna no nihongo books are like, but learning hiragana & katakana first is an essential and being able to write them is a useful skill to have. It’s pretty simple and should take you less than 2 weeks. See [my other post for advice and resources](https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/s5mtva/comment/ht1lo0x/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3).

3. If you can read them with very high accuracy, go for it. I learned to write both physically, simply because it helped me memorize them. I am not doing the same with kanji, although part of me thinks I should start.

   As for studying on your own, that’s really up to you. I didn’t use minna no nihongo, but unless it’s drastically different than other references, just read each chapter/lesson and do any exercises they give you. If you feel confident in the material, move onto the next one. If not, go back over it, and seek other references for that grammar point or idea.

4. Did you also get the grammar book with it? the textbook is just some sentence patterns + tasks, the grammar is explained in a seperate book.

   Usually you read through the grammar of a lesson and then work your way through the tasks of each lesson to apply what you just read.

   Usually minna no nihngo follow these task orders

   1. Examples sentences for the grammar
   2. Text( these texts are also available as listening,I wold recomment to only listen to it first, then read it whilst listening and maybe read it again without listening)
   3. Sentence patterns for the grammar
   4. grammar excercises
   5. dialogue exercises(you can use them to talk with yourself too)
   6. Listening
   7. grammar recap excercises for the lesson
   8. reading comrprehension

   After every like 10th-ish chapter, there will also be a big grammar test section, which will use all grammar learnt until that point.