I just don’t seem to be retaining much from textbooks and I’ve watched some videos here and there that actually stuck in my brain, but I’m hoping to find like a series of videos or something that I can follow because I feel like if I found that, it would make the learning process so much easier for me.
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what do you want to learn exactly
* Michiyo Wojnovich has college classroom style lectures of the Genki books
* Japanese Ammo is more on the “Edutainment” side of it but you can pick up some stuff
* learn Japanese with Masa is good, each video focuses on a topic
This has been asked and answered numerous times. Please use the search function in the subreddit in the future to avoid posting duplicitous questions.
Since you ask I suggest checking cure dolly and tokini Andy.
[cure dolly.](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg9uYxuZf8x_A-vcqqyOFZu06WlhnypWj) especially if what you’re looking for is grammar.
I think companion videos for the textbooks would be good, especially if you have the physical textbooks. The textbooks are very good, but I find it nearly impossible to engage with them when I’m just doing stuff on my own. They just seem like walls of text. When I use them via a class (have been using Tobira with an online class), somehow they seem digestible, sensible, and well-designed. The way the instructor uses them to teach (starting with dialogs, and then hopping between exercises and grammar/vocabulary sections) somehow stays nicely mapped out in my memory, and so the book becomes a good reference. And of course it’s nice perk for that reference to be a physical book, which makes it easy to review.
He doesn’t do it often, but Shogo Your Japanese friend in Kyoto critiques language learning apps. Mochi Real Japanese & possibly Ruri Ohana too