Hi all, I took lessons for half a year ~20 years ago, and have thankfully retained the kana, while vocab has somehow actually improved over the years (anime…). I am a native Mandarin speaker, and so I can ‘read’ easy kanji (meaning -> vocab -> memory plus furigana), and similarly picking up pitch intonation is usually not a problem.
Grammar though… Whenever I visit Japan I can get most of the message across, but I definitely sound like a barbarian stringing verbs and nouns together with little to no conjugation. Does anyone have a recommended daily-practice resource that’s mostly grammar? I am looking at Tae Kim’s guide and bunpro. Should I get Genki vol. 1? Thanks very much!
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If youre looking for a workbook…i recommend [this one](https://amzn.asia/d/1OHIL0N)…its intermediate to advance….but fair warning…it is 100% in japanese
If you are looking to just learn new grammar points, I personally used [this series](https://a.co/d/8Tm8fr6) all the way to n1…i dont think its in chinese…i think it only has korean,and english translations…maybe tai as well….but it really helped me understand new grammar points i had never seen before
Game Gengo on YouTube is a good starting resource for learning grammar. He goes through the Genki grammar sections and makes them free + accessible.
cure dolly, use the textbook if you can’t deal with the voice.
The way I did it, I had read about 20-30 grammar books in the 1st year. We need repetition anyway, it’s very rare to memorize something from the 1st try, and in such case I thought why not to read different books instead. A lot of topics are the same, but authors use different approaches, different wordings and examples and some of these click better than others.
I can’t say how effective it was, but I had no problem with grammar when I started to use content after 500-600 hours of learning.