Title says it all. Looking for feedback from those with experience in both. My main focus will be reading as I’m mostly interested in Japanese vide games, novels and manga. I would be getting a paid Satori Reader subscription if I go that route. I already use Bunpro to supplement my grammar studies.
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Why not both?
Don’t know how well regarded it is, as I have been using it for a brief time only, but you might consider 中級から学ぶ. If I remember correctly, it is a textbook focused on the reading – each unit starts with a list of new words, followed by a short text and various exercises testing its comprehension.
Now that I think of it however, it is very similar to Tobira in that matter, so maybe the latter would still be the superior one.
To me those are two entirely different resources. One is a source of reading material, and one is a textbook. IMO they’d be complementary materials and not exclusive.
I’m currently in Genki II and also using Satori for reading as well as the free Tadoku graded readers. If I had to choose one to drop it would be Satori I guess.
I started satori reader during Genki 2 and continued it afterwards. I also got myself Quartet 1 (the main Tobira competitor). Satori reader has so many great grammar explanations that honestly it made Quartet more or less redundant, since both Satori and Quartet 1 (as well as Tobira) teach you essentially the same N3 grammar points. Especially if your focus is on reading then imo satori is the better resource. And instead of also doing tobira, which takes quite some time to complete, you can just read through a list of n3 grammar points online to make sure you didn’t miss any from satori.
And even if you were not using Satori reader, there are quite a few people who think that more textbooks after Genki are not worth it (and in hindsight I am one of them).