My vocab is decent, about 1500-2000 words (I’ll use either Duolingo or Anki + Yomichan).
I also use Rocket Japanese for audio when I’m on the road.
Cure Dolly’s YT channel has been one of the best resources for grammar so far.
The biggest issue I have is when I’m looking at sentence in Duolingo, I’ll know the words, but I won’t know the order and it’ll be wrong.
What’s the best resource for grammar?
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you have some options
* Genki: It’s a textbook and you also buy a workbook or use the free online one. The textbook teaches you grammar and vocab, and a few kanji. The workbook has exercises that make sure you understood what you read. With that you can get past beginner grammar. There are also youtube lectures that go with the book if you want that.
* Tae Kim’s Guide: This is basically a textbook in website format. It’s free but there is no workbook.
* Dictionary of Japanese Grammar: This is a book and you can guess by the title what is in it. There are several levels of this book (beginner intermediate advanced)
* IMABI: this is a free website with grammar explanations https://www.imabi.net/beginnersi.htm. This resource is a little bit more complicated feeling, but you can see if it fits you
If you are still on the fence after reading these options the most generic and conservative answer is “use genki”
Outside of what Chezni19 mentioned you could watch Japanese Ammo With Misa and 日本語の森, then you’ll probably only need to Google grammar points from there. You could even just do on-the-fly lookups from here on out if you wanted to
My recommendation is that you’re advanced enough to learn from real examples. Just focus on watching/reading/playing stuff you enjoy. You’ll eventually recognize patterns of grammar. That combined with a little structured grammar lessons like what you’ve been doing is the best (the lessons and practical experience reinforce each other). I also recommend the YT channel Sambon Juku. You get grammar lessons explained in Japanese